Sunday Serial: Inkwell, Tab Finder 2, and Kagi Bangs + Launchbar

Aaron’s been home for spring break this past week, but he’s headed back to Rutgers later today. Since Rhonda and I have been working, we didn’t do much save for a few meals out. Aaron met me Thursday for phô near work, and last night we tried Carmella’s Cucina in Mays Landing. It’s a new Italian BYOB. I’ll probably write it up for Yelp; our dinners were excellent.

Grilled Porkchop
Grilled Porkchop

Veal Chop
Veal Chop

Bronzino
Bronzino

Inkwell

Manton Reece recently released Inkwell, a new RSS reader that works in your browser. There’s a Mac app, too. It’s more of a river-of-news style reader, with “Today,” “Recent,” and “Fading” panes.

Inkwell
Inkwell

There’s an iOS app that works with Inkwell too, called Silverleaf Reader.

Silverleaf RSS Reader
Silverleaf RSS Reader

Tab Finder 2

Tab Finder is a great little app that lets you search and open browser tabs. Developer … has a new version coming out, in beta now. Tab Finder is the simplest, macos-iest tab switcher I’ve tried in my search to add Chrome’s tab search feature to Safari. I think I’m all in on Witch, but I still like trying other options. Tab Tab has been great, too.

Kagi Bangs + Launchbar = 🤓🩵

I kinda forgot about Kagi’s Bangs, which are like those employed in Duck Duck Go. I don’t generally use Bangs, but thought that I might be missing something. I was reviewing some of the bangs available this morning before leaving for work, and I saw that there was a bang to invoke Kagi Assistant, which I use all the time.

All day long, I am invoking Launchbar, typing “k,” and then entering my search text into the resulting text box, which fires off a Kagi search in my browser of choice. I really wanted to be able to do this with Kagi Assistant, too (instead of opening a new tab and clicking on the Kagi Assistant bookmark).

If you want to use this, create a new search template in Launchbar, and use this as the template URL:

https://kagi.com/search?q=!ai+*

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