Launch center pro

Software
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Does anyone use Launch Center Pro or a launcher app? And if you do what do you use it for?

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I use launcher. I know I underuse it’s potential. I use it to add some direct calls to my family. As well as a shortcut to navigate home. That’s it for now. I do experience some times issues with the app. It will not show my shortcuts for some reason.

Rob.

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I use LCP to:

  • quickly add stuff to Rember The Milk (via a Pythonista script)
  • quickly add events to my calendar (via Fantastical)
  • add entries to my 5 Minute Journal in Day One (via a URL scheme)
  • open certain websites in full screen in iCab Mobile (via a URL scheme)

Really glad that it’s not dead and they are working on 3.0. Hope they accept me for the beta.

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LCP is great for getting straight to exactly the place you want to in a target app (provided said app has a URL scheme that supports this). A couple of examples I’ve found useful…

  • Running a specific Workflow workflow
  • Going straight to the route I take to work in the Live Train Times UK app

In addition it allows you to create a scheduled alert that generates a notification for an action that you can then just tap to run.

I use this to generate a notification every morning that I tap to run a workflow I use to capture my sleep hours.

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I use it for all sort of things. Deep linking into apps mainly, but some more ‘standard’ URLs too.

I don’t use it so much for capturing data any more. I switched to Workflow for that as it just gave me more control and options.

To give you an idea of the sorts of things I use it for, here’s a screenshot of my start page with the various folders I use to categorise the shortcuts.

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Started using Launcher when I went to Macstock recently. It was easy to get to certain travel and map apps then to go to individual app folders on my phone.

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I was looking to add more shortcuts to apps within the app Launcher with Multiple Widgets. I added the app When I Work, which I have to use to clock in for one of my merchandising jobs. A few weeks ago this app wasn’t available to do this within Launcher. I did request it be added. I’m now able to place the app back in it’s folder instead of having it on my main screen.

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Does LCP work with the new Shortcuts app? What’s the URL for Shortcuts app (is it still workflow:// ?)

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Yes, it does. But you need to use shortcuts:// as the URL scheme - however it’s built into the app already :slight_smile:

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Oh nice. I’m still using workflow:// with LCP and it works. but for how long, who knows

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Been trying to wrap my head around the URL scheme for Shortcuts in Launcher but haven’t quite cracked it yet :thinking:

Would the URL be something along the lines of shortcuts://name-of-workflow/ ?

Found the solution… let’s just say it was a pretty good case of RTFM :laughing:

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I’m curious about what’s in your MacBook Pro folder.