Butler will learn from your habits and remember what you want a certain abbreviation to do (e.g., enter "abo" to launch "Address Book"). Butler offers you a way to manage your bookmarks without depending on a certain browser. In contrary to a browser's bookmark collection, Butler's bookmarks are always accessible through its system-wide menus, hot keys, etc. And you'll certainly become addicted to accessing bookmarks by entering abbreviations. Butler also lets you access the bookmarks of every single browser there is for Mac OS X.
Adding files or URLs from your browser to Butler's configuration is stunningly easy: Just drag them to the active screen corner (default: top left), see Butler's main window open, and drop your items somewhere whithin your configuration. Butler's predecessor "Another Launcher" was the first application that let you search the web from the menu bar. But if your menu bar is too crowded for an input field, you can also use hot keys to pop up dedicated web search windows. Butler supports a large number of search engines by default, but you are not restricted to those ? you can easily add your own search engines.
Butler lets you access items you have previously stored in your pasteboard, effectively turning your pasteboard into a stack. You can also take a snapshot of your current pasteboard and keep it for good. This feature is particularly useful for text snippets you need to enter on a regular basis. You can use Butler to move and copy files, control iTunes, access the system preferences, change the current user, and so on. But Butler really shines when it comes to customizing its behavior. Is your menu bar too crowded? Use Butler's docklet. Do you want a menu for each mounted volume? Do you want a menu to pop up when you press a certain hot key? Do you want all running applications in your menu bar? Or do you prefer doing things with your keyboard only? Whatever kind of interface you prefer, Butler is at your service.
What is new in this release:
- Menu bar text labels no longer vanish after clicking them once in dark mode.
- Screen Saver Smart Items now work more reliably.
- The iTunes information window's volume indicator bar is now less likely to overlap with other text fields.
- Improved compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina.
What is new in version 4.2.3:
"Plain Text" Smart Items can now have custom names that differ from their content.
Fixed an incompatibility with older macOS versions.
Fixed Opera bookmark importing for newer Opera versions.
What is new in version 4.2.2:
Fixed a regression where hot keys didn't work on older macOS versions.
What is new in version 4.1.23:
On macOS Sierra, Butler's menu bar items no longer claim specific positions, because Butler can't guarantee those anyway. Instead, those menu bar items are just numbered sections, which you can command-drag to arrange them relative to your other menu bar items as you see fit.
Volumes Smart Items no longer list App Translocation volumes. (That's the thing where Gatekeeper makes new apps run from a random path for security reasons.)
Butler now ignores a folder's invisibility status when the folder is directly referenced via Folder Content Smart Item. So you can now list the contents of ~/Library, for example, even when Finder isn't configured to show it.
What is new in version 4.1.22:
Reverted a change in behavior where launching a folder would reveal it instead of opening it.
Fixed a bug where Butler wouldn't finish launching on OS X 10.9 and earlier.
What is new in version 4.1.20:
Improved the update mechanism's security.
What is new in version 4.1.19:
Prepared for upcoming Gatekeeper changes.
What is new in version 4.1.18:
Prepared for upcoming Gatekeeper changes.
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