I really love this pattern. However let me rant on two poor implementations in the Windows world: the experience is heavily dependent on the startup speed, and

I really love this pattern. However let me rant on two poor implementations in the Windows world: the experience is heavily dependent on the startup speed, and the immutability of the items presented. The Windows taskbar search has neither speed nor order reliability, and Visual Studio’s Quick Menu is terribly slow to even pop up. Office also implemented it as a Quick Menu, similar to Visual Studio, and it’s not very fast either. It’s a real bummer. Edit: PowerTools also includes an Alfred-like launcher, and its pretty feature full. if it could pop up consistenly (its a bit buggy) at a reliable speed, I would replace the Windows taskbar search with it.