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Good local search gets you 80% of the way there. 20 years ago, this was an inspiring UX trend (Quicksilver / Subject Verb Object), but it fizzled. Apple kept th
by jjoonathan 3y ago
Good local search gets you 80% of the way there. 20 years ago, this was an inspiring UX trend (Quicksilver / Subject Verb Object), but it fizzled. Apple kept the torch lit with menu search and it has been brilliant, but limited to their platform, although I am pleased to see that MS Office got menu search in Oct 2022. Hopefully they don't lose interest like they did for desktop search.
LLMs could certainly help loosen the input requirements, not to mention aim some sorely needed hype back in this direction. I am afraid that they will murder the latency and compute requirements, but hey, progress is always two steps forward one step back.
- wing-_-nuts 3y agoI was never terribly impressed with local search on os x but maybe I didn't use it enough. For a while, ubuntu had a local search where you could hit a button (super?) start typing, and it would drill through menus at lightning speed