Re:Superhuman is Sublime Text for Email
by nbzso on Sunday January 03, 2021 @06:05AM
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Remember Quicksilver? Concept so strong that even Apple implemented UX in Spotlight. Sublime text/VSCode etc. If this thing was some universal app working on top of popular mail clients with one time license it will be like Sublime. $30 for one year is $360. For a web only app.:)) It's borderline ridiculous. And is actually fake Luxury. Luxury is always associated with long term value and in this context privacy and offline mode are valuable points. This is just expensive toy for SaaS hipster crowd.
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Re:Superhuman is Sublime Text for Email
by robenkleene on Sunday January 03, 2021 @11:01AM
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I’d attribute Spotlight's UX to LaunchBar[0], not Quicksilver. LaunchBar (1996) predates Quicksilver (2003), and it was one of Quicksilver's influences, likely the most important one. Spotlight's UX more closely resembles LaunchBar's than Quicksilver's.
Here's a bit I wrote previously on LaunchBar:
> LaunchBar popularized many features we take for granted in search user interfaces today, such as seeing search results live as you type, fuzzy string matching, and combining search results of various types, such as apps, bookmarks, contacts, events, and files all into one unified interface.
(I’d argue most search interfaces today are indebted to LaunchBar, and that it has one of the worst influence-to-fame ratios of any app.)
I happily accept your correction. It's not coincidence that people with those ideas are makers of Little Snitch (one of the reasons for me to use Mac OS after 2013).
Re:Superhuman is Sublime Text for Email
by ValentineC on Sunday January 03, 2021 @10:35AM
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> Remember Quicksilver?
I'm still using it. :) It even works on the M1 Macs with minor tweaks, when I gave the new ones a try.