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macOS / Productivité

Discover Start - The ultimate Launcher for macOS!

With Start, the innovative launcher for macOS, you can instantly open applications, documents, shortcuts, URLs, and folders. Say goodbye to clutter—Start brings order and efficiency to your workflow.

## Organize Your Digital Life

Start helps you optimize the organization of your applications, documents, and folders. Its well-designed system allows you to quickly find everything you need. Start automatically collects all applications available through Spotlight, and you can manually add additional files, URLs, and folders as desired. Open your entries with a mouse click or even faster using a hotkey. Keep track of your entries with tags, colors, and comments. With Start, managing your workflow becomes a breeze!

## Exciting Features

- **Tags**: Create collections for applications, frequently used folders, scripts, and more. Organize and sort your applications on macOS like never before.
- **Comments**: Add helpful notes to your entries, so you know exactly what features they offer. Small comments can have a big impact—stay on top of everything.
- **Colors**: Highlight your entries according to your preferences. With just a few clicks, you can assign colors and find them even faster.
- **Hotkeys**: Assign custom key combinations to individual entries or tags and launch them instantly from anywhere. Your workflow will never be interrupted again!

## Requirements and Availability

Start is designed for macOS version 14 and above, using Spotlight for application search. To ensure smooth operation, Spotlight must be enabled to capture applications (which is the default setting on macOS).

Discover Start and optimize your workflow like never before! Get the app for macOS from the Apple App Store and experience the ease of application navigation.

Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?

With version 9.0, Start receives a fundamental overhaul that significantly improves both appearance and user-friendliness. The update brings a completely new UI design in macOS style, expanded organisation possibilities and numerous improvements that make usage even more efficient.

### New User Interface
- New UI design: The main window as well as the popup menus have been redesigned and consistently follow the macOS user experience
- More prominent keyboard shortcut display: Shortcuts are highlighted more clearly in the main window and displayed in the sidebar instead of tag numbers
- Activatable Dock icon: The Dock icon can be activated in the settings if desired

### Improved Organisation and Navigation
- Grouped display: Elements are now displayed in a structured way (folders first, then apps, etc.) – particularly useful for project-based tags
- Persistent tag states: Start automatically remembers the expanded/collapsed status of tags
- Quick start for tags: With Control + Return, all entries of a selected tag can be launched at once
- Intelligent word search: The search function now finds all entered words in any order instead of searching for the complete entered text

### Additional Improvements
- Completely redesigned keyboard shortcut overview: Clearer structure and better clarity
- Improved window management: Individual Start windows can now be closed with Command + W

### Performance & Stability
- Comprehensive performance optimisations and bug fixes

### System Requirements
macOS 14 or newer required.