In the shopping exchange group, a fan asked me "Why don't you have anything on your desktop, how do you start the software?" In fact, every time I reinstall the system, I will reinstall some commonly used software. Shopping will never be discarded, this software is: Wox. I believe that many brothers are using this little software. It is a domestic open source free software quick start tool.
Wox has a wealth of plug-ins, the liberation of productivity, efficiency Cengceng rub improved.
As of today, there are 18.9k Stars on GitHub, and the popularity can be imagined.
You can think of Wox as an efficient local quick search box, call it by shortcut keys, and then enter keywords to search for the program to start quickly, or search for files on the local hard disk, open Baidu, Google to search, or even through some plug-ins The function realizes more functions such as word translation, closing the screen, querying the clipboard history, querying programming documents, querying the weather and so on.
Download link: github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/releases
1. Background
I found the background of this software is like this.
The company’s data inventory is a timestamp, and each conversion has to be copied to the web page, and find someone to convert online . This demand is very common to me, so a lot of time will be wasted. Occasionally one day, I found that the company's architect did not open any software when changing the time stamp, and ran to ask. He uses mac, and there is an artifact on mac called alfred. Then he recommended me a similar software on windows: W ox .
2. Official website
http://www.wox.one/
A fully functional startup program.
3. Basic settings
1. Installation
After opening the above official website and downloading it, just go to the next step. He will install EveryThing and python, all of which are just default. (Except the installation location, if you want to change it)
1. Language setting
If you are not used to English, you can set it to Chinese in the position below.
2. Start shortcut
The default startup of wox is ALT + SPACE, I think it is very easy to use, students with other habits can modify it as shown below.
3. Theme changes
There are many built-in themes in wox, and you can set them at will. I prefer the Gray below.
4. Function introduction
What wox can do is really countless, but its real housekeeping skills are actually extremely fast file retrieval (with Everything), application startup, and fast web search
1. Start
wox press ALT + SPACE (or set by yourself), it will look like this after opening it, there is only a box in the middle of the screen, it is extremely concise.
2. Retrieve files
You can retrieve any file in the computer, and the speed is very fast, no matter where your files are placed, all can be output in seconds, strong or not. (Much higher than the search efficiency that comes with Windows)
"It came out with a snap, soon."
3. Start the application
Quickly start any application on the computer, no longer need to put a lot of shortcuts on the desktop, here are a few software demonstrations.
4. Quick web search
You can open Baidu or Google search directly, which can be said to be very convenient.
5. Plug-in introduction
Traditional kung fu, naturally, it ends, but as a powerful productivity tool, wox can also implement various functions you want through plug-ins, such as checking the weather, translation, etc. You can choose the installation you like
Rich plug-in library: www.wox.one/plugin
Here I mainly introduce the timestamp conversion that I mentioned at the beginning.
wox can use Python to implement timestamp conversion. Below I wrote a time conversion widget, which I can get from my disk.
链接：https://pan.baidu.com/s/1fidxSOJMt1mdA_Dzyh3TJQ
提取码：6666
Unzip and copy it to the Plugins folder under your wox installation directory. Mine is:
C:\Users\V\AppData\Local\Wox\app-1.4.1196\UserData\Plugins
The specific use is demonstrated below.
Enter tt timestamp (ten digits or thirteen digits), the time in various formats will be listed below, click to copy.
Enter the time stamp in the specified format to convert the time to a time stamp.
5. Summary
After using this software, the desktop of the computer only has a recycle bin (in fact, there is no need for it), which is very simple and I love it. Wox is a small software that improves efficiency. When you are used to this software, you will love it. There are also a wealth of functions and many plug-ins that can be integrated. Please download and explore by yourself.
"Really don't poke, Wox really doesn't poke"
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