@thekitze good catch. I actually missed that but technically this functionality could be supported. Lots of opportunities to integrate with 3rd party API's to do things like:
"Order me an Uber at Home"
"Deliver Philz Silken Splendor on Postmates to my Office"
"Send my girlfriend flowers on BloomThat in the next few hours"
@rrhoover Yeah but until Google Now or Siri does that, don't expect that this app will do it. (I think that the new Google Assistant will be able to do complex queries, but I'm not sure how complex).
@brandonhorst "la cona" means "the c*nt" in Portuguese and in Spanish la coña means "taking th p**s" Look it up in an online dictionary, Google translate can't handle things like these
@iotncl Ooh... that's pretty bad actually. I'm terribly sorry to the Portuguese speakers! Hopefully folks will be able to look past it - I'll make sure that the L is always capitalized in marketing materials.
@brandonhorst@iotncl Actually, we (Portuguese speakers) don't have articles starting with "l", as "la", "lo", etc... So, as a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, I don't think Lacona is a bad name at all! (Also, "cona" isn't a word or slang in pt-BR).
@calum_webb Yes, but one step at a time. The hard parts are all written in JavaScript, so it's built to be ported. After full Mac release I'll start thinking about it.
Looks great, I wonder how it would run paired with dictation.. Is this something that could be built into Lacona, automatically turn dictation on when it's called? Or should I look into AppleScript / Automator solution.. ?
@pjburnhill I would love to see something like that, but I would want to make sure it's done right before it's baked in - and with the Siri API rumored for announcement next week, I'd want to see what's up with that.
Right now it would be really easy to make an Applescript shortcut which basically presses ALT+Space and then enables dictation (though activating Lacona via Applescript will be available with the next version).
@pjburnhill I was thinking the exact same thing. Since it uses natural language it would work really well paired with dictation. Would you mind letting me know if there is a AppleScript / Automator Solution available if you find one please? Thanks!
I really love the smart text parsing here. My problem however is that I now have 4 different almost identical looking "launchers" like this:
• Spotlight - Better data visualization and completely native to OSX, but not very extensible (doesn't work with Reminders for example).
• Alfred - Incredibly powerful workflows, but fairly technical and awkward UI at times, almost everything is text based.
• Cloudo - Allows me to search across my cloud web services in addition to my local computer, but doesn't do much else.
• Lacona - Like Alfred but with better natural language parsing and integrations.
I just want one that does it all!
@brandonhorst I got exactly the same setup as @mattaningram: Alfred + Cloudo + Spotlight. I'm also super keen to see Lacona plugins improving the workflow.
@haoyangnz No, I will be releasing a paid version in the near future. However, I built the app with OSS in mind, and two full frameworks and a bunch of libraries have come out of it. There is only a relatively small bit of "glue code" that is closed so I can earn some money the app.
More info: https://docs.lacona.io/docs/appe...
Lacona Labs on Github: https://github.com/laconalabs
There is already at least two company building products directly using the Elliptical library that runs underneath Lacona: http://healthreactor.io/https://mixmax.com/
@brandonhorst@mbjones that's great news! I'd be very happy to give Lacona a try but I'm using the calculator on Alfred so often that it makes it impossible to switch until Lacona has it.
When I read that headline, my brain immediately thought this was voice controlled! I tried barking a few orders at it and nothing happened :( @brandonhorst any plans to integrate voice commands? That would be so cool!
@srinira0 You can kind of emulate it by pressing ALT+Space Fn Fn. But in reality, in 90% of cases, working on your keyboard is faster when you're getting work done. Voice would definitely be cool - waiting to see if a Siri API is announced at WWDC before I make any commitments to that.
Really nice, finally something to replace spotlight basic functionality. Was using Flashlight, but based on initial testing, this is a lot better. Are there plans to have a store or plugin manager for when developers start using the API?
@anand_patel18 Thanks! Addon manager is under development right now - should be out in a week or two. Pre-release access to the Development Environment is also available (http://docs.lacona.io/).
@louisdv Lacona is built to be translated, but unfortunately right now there is not a great developer process for doing so. This is a killer feature in my mind, and I want to make it possible ASAP. Follow the discussion here: https://github.com/laconalabs/La...
@inductd_aus Everyone over-estimates the usefulness of voice interfaces. When you're getting work done, you're in the office, or a coffee shop, and you can't start talking to your computer. This is exactly why I'm skeptical about the "Siri for OSX" rumors. Glad you agree!
@brandonhorst super impressive man. I launched a Kanye track and that was a aha moment. So fast. Do you take service integration requests? I'd love to get Spotify and Todoist (with its date parser)!! Congrats on the launch!
@hfauq Spotify is *by far* the most requested feature, and I would LOVE to see it (just play any song ever by name, total killer app), but the implementation is a bit more difficult. Todoist is definitely a big one too. Those will come with the release of the Addon manager (soon!)
@brandonhorst I can definitely see why! Play any song, queue any song.. Playing music from Lacona is really mind blowing. Cool to hear, could you let me know when the Todoist integration is out? hugo(at)doist(dot)com 👏
This is just what i want, i know the hype is using voice, but i prefer to write it, when you work with other people around or even if i'm alone, i feel pretty awkward talking to my computer
Interesting but I don't see the benefit to using this over Alfred. I'm hoping Apple announces a Siri + Spotlight combo for the Mac for which developers can create extensions.
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