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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 organize your applications, documents, and folders optimally. 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, URLs, and more. Organize and sort your apps 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!

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# New

Revamped URL dialog:
For HTTP/HTTPS URLs, you can now choose an alternative browser in addition to the default browser. There’s also a new placeholder that is replaced with the contents of the clipboard when opening the URL.

“Updated Apps” category:
The last 25 updated and newly installed apps are displayed chronologically—so you can find them at a glance.

Direct tag switch
Click a displayed tag (Control + Option) to jump directly to that tag and see all associated entries.

Hover effect
You can now enable a hover effect for entries in the main window in Settings to more quickly see where the mouse is.

Path hints
Briefly hover over an entry title to see the stored path as a tooltip.

Revised DropStack
The DropStack has been completely redesigned.

# Improved
- Hotkeys are displayed more clearly
- Optimized menu structure with better sectioning
- Revised behavior of the arrow keys
- Reliable switching between left and right panes using the Tab key
- Numerous stability and performance improvements

# Fixed
- Changes to URL templates are now saved correctly