# A letter to Listary users 💌

**URL:** <https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7280>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [April 28, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7280 "2022-04-28T13:40:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![ibay770](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/ibay770/32/1038_2.png) [@ibay770](https://discussion.listary.com/u/ibay770)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7280/21 "2022-05-19T03:05:47Z")

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Welcome back! Thank you for your amazing search! And to be fair, no search made by Microsoft and Apple is fast or good, the good ones are all third parties.  
I like the new UI of the latest one, I would work on functionality though, it doesn’t popular in certain dialogue boxes, such as services, whereas Listary 5 popped up immediately. Also since Spotlight is so slow, why not make Listary for Mac too? Unless Alfred does that job already.

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**Author:** ![ibay770](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/ibay770/32/1038_2.png) [@ibay770](https://discussion.listary.com/u/ibay770)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7280/22 "2022-05-19T03:06:38Z")

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FS is nice but no, it doesn’t have the popup find functionality of Listary as yet

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**Author:** ![eagleeyez](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/eagleeyez/32/242_2.png) [@eagleeyez](https://discussion.listary.com/u/eagleeyez)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 3:55am UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7280/23 "2022-05-19T03:55:14Z")

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No other software was truly capable of replacing this gem, please keep improving it it is really worth your time

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**Author:** ![LiuChuan92](https://discussion.listary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@LiuChuan92](https://discussion.listary.com/u/LiuChuan92)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7280/24 "2022-05-19T22:49:39Z")

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What’s the popup find functionality?

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**Author:** ![rapl](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/rapl/32/694_2.png) [@rapl](https://discussion.listary.com/u/rapl)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 9:07am UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7280/25 "2022-05-21T09:07:47Z")

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@Channing  
From personal experience as an open-source developer, “limited” time generally means this is pretty much dead. That’s a pity but completely understandable.

Regarding your situation on the Mac: I’ve used Macs in the past and Spotlight has always been pretty useless to me. However, you may want to look at Quicksilver: [https://qsapp.com/](https://qsapp.com/)  
To me, that is the Gold standard for a launcher, which I had hoped Listary to become for Windows. If it still works on current Macs, you’ll see why. It really is one of the few tools that worked just right…

All the best to you! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Dypsis](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/dypsis/32/3251_2.png) [@Dypsis](https://discussion.listary.com/u/Dypsis)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 6:31am UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7280/26 "2022-05-28T06:31:39Z")

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How do you develop and test it if you don’t use Windows? 😕

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**Author:** ![LiuChuan92](https://discussion.listary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@LiuChuan92](https://discussion.listary.com/u/LiuChuan92)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 9:08am UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7280/28 "2022-06-09T09:08:22Z")

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That’s a great idea! I have an even better idea: you can buy the ownership off him and put it on GitHub. Everybody will be happy.

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**Author:** ![ERAMEL](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/eramel/32/3343_2.png) [@ERAMEL](https://discussion.listary.com/u/ERAMEL)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7280/29 "2022-07-07T14:00:48Z")

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😃👏🏻👍🏻

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**Author:** ![ibay770](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/ibay770/32/1038_2.png) [@ibay770](https://discussion.listary.com/u/ibay770)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7280/30 "2023-03-27T23:49:20Z")

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Agreed. Also if you need a tester. Im happy to help.

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**Author:** ![POLUTO\_BARD](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/poluto_bard/32/3877_2.png) [@POLUTO\_BARD](https://discussion.listary.com/u/POLUTO_BARD)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 10:43am UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7280/31 "2023-05-02T10:43:04Z")

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冲冲冲

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**Author:** ![ibay770](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/ibay770/32/1038_2.png) [@ibay770](https://discussion.listary.com/u/ibay770)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7280/32 "2023-05-23T18:28:52Z")

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Welcome back! If you’re not using Windows, then maybe make listary for Mac and Linux instead.  
Version 5 is still working good for me.  
Thanks for increasing productivity big time.

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