Listary is a powerful disk search utility intended to increase your productivity. The application indexes the contents of your disks to produce almost instant search results. Moreover, it can help you launch applications, search the web and explore projects. The tool has a minimal graphical user interface, which is limited to contextual menus, search boxes and its Options dialog box. Fortunately, it comes with excellent tutorials to help you use it efficiently.
When the program is installed, it runs from the System Tray, where you can configure it by clicking on its icon. The program is characterized by its total integration with the system through a series of key combinations and contextual menus. Thus, it allows searching the disk from any window or folder. In this regard, the find-as-you-type function lets you start typing and get immediate results of matching files, applications and folders. The search outcomes comprise not only the contents of the active drive but also other locations, even networked drives and external devices. Another feature of Listary can emulate the functions of Windows Start Menu to work as an application launcher. With two Ctrl key strokes, the program automatically opens a search box that allows finding the desired application. Furthermore, the tool allows you to bookmark your favorite folders.
Another distinctive feature of Listary is that it lets you search the web by assigning keywords to your favorite search engines. This way, you can simply type the keyword that identifies the intended search engine followed by the specific terms and Listary opens the default web browser at that page.
All in all, Listary is the perfect search tool for those who don’t mind memorizing a long list of key combinations as it significantly improves your workflow. It even lets you create customized actions and assign hotkeys to them. Besides, it even “learns” from your preferences to improve search results automatically. Regrettably, it doesn’t support full-text searches.
v3.51.858 [Nov 28, 2011]
- New: Accelerator key support for all menus
- New: Environment variable support for all paths
- New: New language files (Swedish, Italian, Ukrainian, Korean and Polish)
- New: Paths of recent documents can be compacted automatically
- New: New toolbar UI
- New: Toolbar can be transparent now
- New: Regular expression support is back for Pro users
- New: Tooltips for all hot keys
- New: Users can set default file manager now
- New: Search results now shown in bold (and underline as before) font
- New: New way of handling subfolder expanding
- New: Code signing all files
- Improved: Improved overall performance for menus
- Improved: Improved performance of auto-expand subfolder
- Improved: Toolbar will be always visible for file dialogs
- Improved: Total Commander ini file path detection
- Improved: Uncheck “Watch screencast” for updating
- Improved: New version of crash report component
- Fixed: Cannot open a recent file in Explorer
- Fixed: Mouse lag (mouse hook conflicts with some software)
- Fixed: Minor bug of Export List Content
- Fixed: Icon display bug in Options > Favorite
- Fixed: Many other bugs
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