There are many simple ways to start apps on your Mac. You can Click a symbol in the dockuse Spotlight search (or better alternatives)Or visit the application folder and start your favorite apps. None of these methods are as fast and makes you as funny as starting apps PieoneA launcher with which you can add your preferred apps to a radial menu. It also has two other useful functions integrated app switches and an easy way to float hidden functions of your preferred apps.
Use Pieoneer as an app launcher
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This is the simplest part of the use of Pieoneer. As soon as you have installed the app, you can click and go on the menu bar symbol Settings> Launcher. Here you can absorb a keyboard link to activate the Pieoneer and you can add, reorganize and remove apps from the launcher. Pieoneer does not seem to limit how many apps they can add to the radial thrower, but maybe it should be. It looks good for up to 10 apps, but looks tight afterwards. As an experiment, I added every app that I start regularly. With 21 apps in the launcher, Pieoneer looked like a pizza with far too many coverings.
Fortunately, health sat and I removed apps that I don’t have to start constantly. As soon as the facility is complete, Pieoneer will do his work quickly and reliably. Press the keyboard link to display the radial menu and click on the app you want to start with your mouse cursor. I wish I wish to use Pieoneer without a mouse, but at the moment it is not possible. It would be quite jammed to use the arrow keys to navigate in the radial menu anyway. Therefore, I agree with the developer’s design decision here.
Setting up the Switcher app
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You can also use Pieoneer as a faster way to switch between current apps. To try it, you will find them Switch Settings tab in the Settings menu and then set a keyboard link for this campaign. As soon as you have done this, you can fire it up to display all your open apps in the same radial menu. Use the mouse cursor to quickly select an app and it will be in the foreground immediately. I think that’s faster than using Command Switch between the outlet of apps on my MacBook.
The hidden jewel: controller
I think the best function in Pieoneer is controller with which it makes it easier to access functions that are buried in different apps under layers of menus. To use this, you must receive this app authorizations on your Mac barrier -free. Pieoneer is in the Mac App Store, which means that it also checks it from Apple. So you shouldn’t worry about issuing these permissions. Go to the app settings, select the Controller Tab and click the button to issue the permissions of accessibility that the system settings opens. As soon as you have approved the app there, restart Pieoneer to use this function.
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You should first set up a keyboard link for the controller and then add apps with which you want to use you. As soon as you have added some apps, you must add links to every app. I took the opportunity to add my favorite links in Ulysses, my standard writing app. From that moment on, I used the controller to quickly carry out these links in order to display the number of words, to export text, to check the outline, etc. Deal, after that, Pieoneer makes things much easier.
A better overall experience
Pieoneer has improved my experience with starting and switching between apps, and its controller function is the icing on the cake. The best thing about it is the user interface of the app. I also love the attention to detail. Every animation looks fluid, the switches can be clicked or pulled in settings, and with the app you can also activate noise. If you scroll through the radial menu, every element selection plays a nice sound and you can switch it to a more playful variation that sounds like do-re-mi-fa-so.
My only complaint with this app is that sometimes it automatically opened the setting window on my Mac. Apart from this little mistake, Pieoneer did everything it promised and did it quite well. While I was able to buy the app for 5 US dollars, the price seems to have risen to 10 US dollars since I used it. However, the app is still a good value if you like the idea of using radial menus to start or switching between apps.
