Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life

by David Allen

The sequel to his popular work Getting It All Done.

		David Allen shows us how to excel in dealing with our daily commitments, the unexpected, and the information overload that threatens to drown us. Making It All Work provides an instantly usable, success-building tool kit for staying ahead of the game. Product Details & Reviews...

Do you get tired of weaving through multiple levels of menus to find a program you’re looking for? Do you hate cluttering up your desktop with dozens of icons? Do you long for the good old command-line days? Ok, maybe that last one was a stretch, but if you think it’s much faster to type a few characters than to traverse menus in order to launch an application, you’ll enjoy this little gem.

Launchy is a program that sits quietly (and invisibly) in the background, waiting for you to press ALT + spacebar to activate it. When you do, a very simple interface pops up offering you a line to type on:

Typing a few characters brings up matching options instantly such as the application shown here. I only had to type “fi” to see Firefox displayed here:

Launchy is similar to another great find-n-launch utility: QuickSilver for the Mac.

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