Tonnerre is a pure swift built, extensible, and productive Spotlight alternative. You can consider it as a global search bar with everything you are interested, or it is a text-based Siri who responds to all your requests.
These instruction will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purpose.
- from macOS Mojave (10.14)
- Git
- Xcode with the latest Swift version (5)
- Carthage
cd somewhere
git clone https://github.com/YaxinCheng/Tonnerre.git
cd Tonnerre
carthage update
open Tonnerre.xcodeprojAfter open in Xcode, you can add a new scheme Tonnerre and it will build the Tonnerre.app
Or you can download a built version here: Tonnerre.dmg
- HotKey - Simple global shortcuts in macOS
- TonnerreSearch - A necessary component for building your own Spotlight on macOS with Swift
- LiteTableView - A faster and simpler table view for macOS
- MathParser - A swift library parsing string typed math expressions to its evaluated result
Here is what Tonnerre can offer
Everywhere, when you press ⌥ + Space, Tonnerre search bar will show up, and waiting for your request.
When you type in a request, Tonnerre acts quickly and provides you a list of options. Besides navigating using arrow keys, and Enter to select, Tonnerre also provides quick-selection with ⌘+number.
Besides simply app search and launch, Tonnerre supports file search function with keyword file for search by name, and contentfor search by content
When you can search through the local files and apps, you know this is never enough. The broader internet is our destination. So, when you need to search things online.
Tonnerre provides you numerous options to satisfy different types of search: Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, Google Image, Google Map, and etc.. You just need to type in the keyword, and followed by the content you want to search, then it lead you to where you want to be.
When we search, we care more about its content. Why do we have to jump to browser or file editor to know the content? Can't we do it here?
Yes, of course! With Tonnerre, you can preview the option by clicking Space bar. It doesn't matter if it's a image, a file, or an URL, you can view it before open it.
Search is just one side of this app. It actually has something more, that help you do things with the least key strokes and no mouse move
Preview is supported of course
Besides all these, Tonnerre also support quick launch Browser bookmarks (Safari and Chrome supported), quick launch URLs, calculator, look up dictionary, and etc.. There are more functionalities waiting for you to explore
As Apple introduced Dark mode in macOS Mojave, Tonnerre also supports two different coloured interfaces. And it is totally based on your system settings
At the very beginning, the word extensible was mentioned. According to my builtin English Dictionary:
extensible | ikˈstensəb(ə)l |
adjective
able to be extended; extendable: an extensible architecture designed to accommodate changes.
So, Tonnerre supports extensions too. The extensions are called TNE Script. They are simply packed scripts with extra resource files. For more detailed info about TNE Script, go to: TNEExamples.
- More options in the setting panel
- Better indexing and change-listening algorithm
- More script language support for TNE Script
This project is licensed under the GPLv3 Licence - see the LICENSE.md