Thunderstorm
Basically Droppy's brainLaunch a fast Spotlight-style panel from anywhere to search your apps, settings, and files. Where Spotlight only finds things, Thunderstorm lets you act on them: rename, duplicate, or reveal files in Finder, quit or uninstall apps, eject disks, and run system commands like Restart or Sleep, all without leaving the panel.
What it does
- Universal search across apps, settings, and files
- Rename, duplicate, and reveal files in Finder
- Quit or uninstall apps, eject disks, sleep or restart
- Configurable global shortcut that can replace Spotlight
How to use it
- Record a global shortcut, or take Spotlight's. To do that, disable Apple's binding first under System Settings, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Spotlight.
- Type to search apps, settings, files, clipboard entries, basket items and calendar events at once.
- Then act on what you found without leaving the panel: rename, duplicate or reveal a file in Finder, quit or uninstall an app, eject a disk, sleep or restart.
Where it shows up
- Global shortcut
- Ring action
Workflows
Uninstall an app properly
Find the app, choose uninstall, done. No dragging to the Trash and wondering what it left behind.
Find a file and send it somewhere
Search for it, then add it to the Shelf or the Basket from the same panel, and drop it where it belongs.
Change a setting you cannot remember the name of
Droppy's own settings are searchable from here, as is the Droplet Store, so installing or configuring a Droplet never needs the Settings window.
Tips
- App aliases let you call an app what you actually call it, rather than what its developer named it.
- It can run Element Capture modes and manage Droplets, which makes it a reasonable single shortcut to remember if you only want one.