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A beginner's guide to configuring Butler
Perhaps a thread should be started in the forums with a good, healthy pro-con debate on each, and plenty of good hints for the users of each program. I'd certainly contribute what I've found out with LaunchBar, and I'd love to hear about some things I might be missing with some of the others.
Butler, Launchbar, Quicksilver
All of these programs are good at what they try to do, but there are two completely different approaches here: organize or search. The organize approach is to arrange the things you want (files, folders, applications, iTunes controls, bookmarks, emails, etc.) in some hierarchical way and provide efficient access to the hierarchy. Butler does this brilliantly. The search approach relies on powerful search functions to avoid the need to categorize things. Launchbar and Quicksilver do this brilliantly.
A beginner's guide to configuring Butler
I find myself using Butler and Quicksilver together. Butler replaces a couple of other discrete apps (iMote and Youpi Key) which I used for iTunes control and text macros respectively. However, I don't think I'll use Butler in preference to Quicksilver as a launcher, simply because the bezel mode of QS is so darn beautiful! I don't think there is any reason to choose; just use both or all three.
A beginner's guide to configuring Butler
I forgot to mention that MacDevCenter already has an article comparing some of the features of these launchers:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/09/launchers.html?page=1
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