My launcher extensions setup

The value of a launcher is not the launcher. It is that a hundred small frictions each cost two seconds instead of twenty, and two seconds does not break concentration.

The ones that earn their place

• Switch to a project directory and open the editor in one step
• Paste the current branch name
• Convert a selected timestamp to a readable date
• Open the staging site for whatever repository I am in
• Toggle focus mode and the do-not-disturb setting together

None of these are impressive. All of them run dozens of times a day, which is the only metric that matters for a tool like this.

The ones I deleted

Anything I used less than weekly. A launcher with sixty commands is a search problem wearing a productivity costume.

How I decide what earns a shortcut

Count how many times you did it last week. If the honest answer is under five, a shortcut is a thing to remember rather than a thing that helps. Memory is the scarce resource, not keys.

Scripts beat integrations

Every official integration I installed eventually broke on an API change or asked me to reauthenticate at the worst moment. Ten-line shell scripts that shell out to tools I already have installed have never broken once, because the interface they depend on is thirty years old.