Paletro, an app for choosing menu items by keyboard, was mentioned in this episode. When I tried using it a few years back, I found it to be somewhat unreliableāin some apps it would find menu items, in others it would not. Maybe thatās not the case anymore. However, I really wanted the ability to use the keyboard to choose menu items, and discovered this Alfred workflow: Menu Bar Search. If youāre already an Alfred user, this is an excellent ālightweightā workflow that will do the same thing as Paletro.
Although Iāve not had time to listen, Iāve sure this episode is fantastic.
Brett Terpstra is a legend! Since he works with Christopher GamblĆ©e-Wallencheck, Iām sure heās awesome too!
Bear & Glass sounds very intriguing! I canāt wait to learn more.
All Mac Power Users need to visit Brett Terpstraās website and check out all of his cool tools! Among many, a few of my favorites are:
If you are able, I encourage you to support Brett. I have no affiliation, but Iām a happy customer and I admire his expertise, passion, and generosity.
Those that have Keyboard Maestro, might find the below useful; itās a macro Iāve created and shared on the Keyboard Maestro forum to leverage SearchLink and Gather:
Wow! What an episode. With even a mention of the legendary āupcomingā nvUltra!!!
As I listened on my walk today, it became increasingly clear that Brett and crew may have already started thinking about my own unfinished task: finding a way to easily archive ChatGPT threads outside of GPT for easy search and retrieval of deep parts of a thread. The biggest obstacle I hit is that thereās no simple way (that I know ofā¦) to CMD-all, copy and paste into a text editor for cleanup and future retrieval.
Any ideas of how to do that? Iām forever wondering which thread has that great idea I wanted to make actionable. Thanks for any help!
In the episode it sounded like Marked 3 and NVUltra were imminent, especially Marked 3.
Anyone know what the status is now?
Todd
Not now, but 17 days ago:
I had never heard of Paletro before, although I use that āfuzzy menu searchā functionality in PyCharm all the time and love it.
I found an Alfred Workflow that does the same thing: Alfred Gallery ā¢ Workflows ā¢ Menu Bar Search
Anything? Bueller? Surely we know more now! Itās a month later.
Thatās very kind of you to say!
(Unfortunately, David mistyped my last name, itās actually āGamblĆ©e-Wallendjack,ā but thatās neither here nor there.)
Iām very proud of what weāve built with Bear & Glass, and Iām excited for us to help more folks in the industry! Donāt be afraid to reach out to me at christopher@bearandglass.co if you have any questions!
There is something about Paletro that I like more than the Alfred Workflow (probably interface-related). Also, AFAIR the workflow does not find items in the scripts menu but I could remember it wrong.