Niléane1d ago

Big news!
I'm launching a tiny Mac app 🥺🔍🤏

 It's called TinyStart, and it's a lightweight Launcher and Emoji picker for macOS!

Unlike Spotlight, TinyStart is super fast at showing results and launching apps. It never becomes overcrowded with search results you don't need, and it lets you open URLs, perform web searches with custom search engines, and quickly open folders in Finder.

Oh and yes, I think the Emoji picker is pretty good too. It's everything the default macOS Emoji picker isn't: it's fast, it lets you insert Emojis in any text field, it isn't picky about keywords, and it learns your favorite Emojis over time.

Get TinyStart at https://tinystart.app: it's €5, you pay for it once and future updates are free!

also I made a lil' video to show you what it looks like:

Show threadWill Henney
@nileane This looks really nice, congrats. I did notice a small issue with the Emoji picker: Enter does not work to insert for me, but ⌘C to copy does work. Perhaps this is because I am still on Sequoia? Also a lot of the math symbols seem to be missing, or is that deliberate?
Mar 31 at 3:49amIvory for Mac
Show threadNiléane1d ago

@whenney Make sure if you enable the Accessibility permission in the app's settings for inserting Emojis :)

Regarding the math symbols, you mean in the emoji picker? If so, do let me which additional special characters you would like to see added, I can add more very easily!

Show threadWill Henney1d ago

@nileane Yes, the Accessibility setting is what I was missing. My fault for not fully exploring the settings screens.

The symbols I noticed were missing from your picker were math italic variants of greek letters. For instance, you only get one hit for "epsilon" as compared with many with the system picker. You are also missing things like "circled dot operator" and all the die faces. Admittedly these are all pretty niche