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Re:Apple Passwords Deserve an App by shagie on Monday March 27, 2023 @04:34PM (#35332117)
Make an alias to Keychain access. Name it "Passwords" and have that a directory that is indexed by Spotlight (the Utilities directory under Applications where Keychain Access is found works fine).

This will then show up in the launchpad. https://i.imgur.com/IRPOMC5.png

Searching for 'pass' in Spotlight does bring up Keychain access - as that's in the apps list of Keywords... however the list of apps is way down on the scrolling https://i.imgur.com/KFUC0G0.png - it found 'password' as a string in 100 python files that I had to scroll through first.

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Re:Apple Passwords Deserve an App by airstrike on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:58AM (#35342143)
> Make an alias to Keychain access.

Sorry, but that also doesn't mean anything to the average user. If anything it's made it more complicated for them—they will remember to type in "key" before they learn how to make an alias

That I don't have an issue with the word "keychain" doesn't mean it's not bad UX for the average Mac OS user

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Re:Apple Passwords Deserve an App by shagie on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:05PM (#35343258)
Specifically, what functionality would you like?

If you do control-space (to bring up spotlight) and type in password, what do you want it to do and what is missing?

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Re:Apple Passwords Deserve an App by airstrike on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @01:43PM (#35360618)
If I type in "password" I get a bunch of results that aren't what I need

My wife asks me weekly "honey, what's that word I gotta type to see my passwords again?"

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