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Flow Launcher. Dedicated to make your workflow flow more seamlessly. Aimed at being more than an app launcher, it searches, integrates and expands on functionalities. Flow will continue to evolve, designed to be open and built with the community at heart.
Remember to star it, flow will love you more :)
Features
- Search everything from applications, files, bookmarks, YouTube, Twitter and more. All from the comfort of your keyboard without ever touching the mouse.
- Search for file contents.
- Support search using environment variable paths.
- Run batch and PowerShell commands as Administrator or a different user.
- Support languages from Chinese to Italian and more.
- Support wide range of plugins.
- Prioritise the order of each plugin's results.
- Save file or folder locations for quick access.
- Fully portable.
SOFTPEDIA EDITOR'S PICKRunning Flow Launcher
| Windows 7 and up |
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Windows may complain about security due to code not being signed, this will be completed at a later stage. If you downloaded from this repo, you are good to continue the set up.
Integrations
- If you use Python plugins:
- Install Python3, download
.exeinstaller. - Add Python to
%PATH%or set it in flow's settings. - Use
pipto installflowlauncher, cmd inpip install flowlauncher. - Start to launch your Python plugins.
- Install Python3, download
- Flow searches files and contents via Windows Index Search, to use Everything, download the plugin here.
Usage
- Open flow's search window: Alt+Space is the default hotkey.
- Search programs, bookmarks and control panel items with acronyms eg.
gkorgpfor GitKraken Preview; fuzzy search eg.codeorvisfor Visual Studio Code. - Open context menu: on the selected result, press Ctrl+O/Shift+Enter.
- Cancel/Return to previous screen: Esc.
- Install/Uninstall/Update plugins: in the search window, type
pm install/pm uninstall/pm update+ the plugin name. - Saved user settings are located:
- If using roaming:
%APPDATA%\FlowLauncher - If using portable, by default:
%localappdata%\FlowLauncher\app-<VersionOfYourFlowLauncher>\UserData
- If using roaming:
- Logs are saved along with your user settings folder.
Status
Flow is under heavy development, but the code base is stable, so contributions are very welcome. If you would like to help maintain it, please do not hesistate to get in touch.
Contributing
We welcome all contributions. If you are unsure of a change you want to make, simply put an issue in for discussion, otherwise feel free to put in a pull request.
You will find the main goals of flow placed under Projects board, so feel free to contribute on that. If you would like to make small incremental changes, feel free to do so as well.
Get in touch if you like to join the Flow-Launcher Team and help build this great tool.
Question/Suggestion
Yes please, submit an issue to let us know.
Join our community on Discord!
Developing/Debugging
Flow Launcher's target framework is .Net Core 3.1
Install Visual Studio 2019
Install .Net Core 3.1 SDK via Visual Studio installer or manually from here