What happened to all of our comments?

Some ideas for new commands:
1. Create Outlook appointments using natural language (similar to Google calendar). Also create tasks in the same manner.
2. Create Google calendar entries from anywhere.
3. Send SMS via something

> What happened to all of our comments?

Looks like the comments moved to the ‘Enso TeX’ comments area. Go figure.

I would really like to be able to make my own aliases so i could type in two letters to automatically open my documents or something.

Sorry about the comments — we had a system hiccup. Everything should be working now.

I think it was said before, but an Enso alarm would be a great, but not too difficult feature to implement.

Sometimes you want to put a 30 minutes alarm to remind you when you gotta go move the laundry into the drawer, or want to make sure you get going at 7:40 to make the train on time.

Calc command ignores formatting in MS Word 2003 for some reason. ou select bold numbers, run calc command and result comes back in default font.

Sometimes it is required to calculate sum of numbers writen in a column of table in MS Word 2003. It would be great if ENSO could calculate that also.

Currency conversion

It would be nice if ENSO could provide analog of google’s “100 USD IN EUR” command.

If I could select a number and type “EUR in USD” command.

Or select “100 USD” in text and just type “EUR”

I have concocted a reasoning to user made aliases. Especially with the translate function, I don’t want to have to write “translate to Spanish” for example, and even worse. it automatically comes up with “translate from”. So at the very least I would have to hold Ca[s Lock, press t, press tab to autofill the rest of the word, hit backspace four times, type to s. And then it translates the word/s into Spanish. The whole point of Enso is so it wouldn’t be faster to go to a translation site and translate it there. I would much rather be able to make an alias “tts” (translate to Spanish) than go through that. So please Enso team, at lest consider the idea.

Other than that though, I really can’t think of anything. Keep up the good work.

Eric makes a good point. With this beta we see several multi-word command introduced. Rather than simple commands like “close,” we have Translate To, Translate From, Google Define, and Google Map.

My suggestion is to make these truly multi-part commands by making text-completion smarter. “Google-define” should be re-implemented to follow the “Translate from” model. (That is, the words are separated by a space, not a dash.)

goo[Enter] — this complete to “google”
goo[Enter]d — this competes to “google define”
tr[Enter]f[Enter]f — this completes to “translate from French”

Six keystroke to translate from French. I say that’s good, given the many choices translate provides.

Aliases mean less keystrokes but they come at a cost. They mean preference and customization. Those lead to unpredictability, complexity, and installation setup requirements.

just a quick thought, most media players have a library, (or the songs etc are stored in known places)

it would be good if I could type ‘Play song name’ and like the open command it displayed things in my library.

I listen to a lot of books and podcasts on my pc, so being able to type the name of a book instead of having to open the media library and finding it would be great.

This is a very small feature but a show desktop command would be nice and easy to implement.

I really hope to see enso on mac soon, and linux if ever possible. I would also love to see note taking feature of some sort. It would be so useful and a nice addition to enso.

Also a more advanced calculator would be nice too.

And an email and then contact name or email address would be really cool to have for thunderbird or any other email client.

I completely agree with Varsoil on the whole two word thing that would make everything a lot easier.

I can’t wait for enso to evolve. It is my favorite application and the possibility of having it available in all major platforms would definitely be exciting news. Can’t wait to see what you come up with next.

Hi, first of all Congratulations on this great product.

The new additions are great. It’s nice to see Enso’s vocabulary grow, I’m looking forward to see it grow even further.

From the new additions my favorite is translate. I haven’t needed it yet , nor do i think i will soon. But it feels great to know that i have the power to translate “anything” with less than 5 key strokes!.

The volume command is a nice idea. I think you are doing a great thing unifying services.

Controlling volume can be surprisingly difficult now a days. There is no unified volume interface, players, operating systems and even speakers have them. Its horrible!!.
There are things that i find are missing from the volume command:
The First one is mute. Please why didn’t you add this? volume 0 is not the same as mute, really!
The second one is the ability to increases or decrease the volume while holding on the volume command and using the left and right key board arrows.

Volume levels depend greatly on what your listening , and i find it hard to successfully grade it from 1 to 10. Its taking me longer to use Enso to change volume than the UI, and i think that that the second suggestion would fix that.

I completely agree with Henry an alarm would be a GREAT command!!. I can already see myself using it.

Enso is a great app- I’m very impressed by it. I like the Web Search addon.

An additional feature I’d like to see is integration with IM clients. For example, ’send message to friendsName’ — to open a message window addressed to a specific friend. Or, ’send link to friendsName’ to send a highlighted url to a specific friend.

I would like to see a ‘time’ and a ‘date’ command which simply display the current time/date as a transparent message.

Building on the time and date command ideas, it would be very useful to have an ‘insert’ command, where you can insert the current time/date/month/year/etc. This would also work with the put command when you aren’t in a situation where text is able to be input.

A time zone conversion function would be great. Provide a time or time date along with a from and to timezone by major city. For example 11:25PM chicago to amsterdam.

BTW, Enso is simply incredible, thanks for the great work!

Feature request: screen capture plugin

Commands that allow you to take a screenshot of the active window (and full screen), and then ability to “put” this somewhere.

“get color” (or something similar) would be a great feature. Where ever you have your mouse, it would get a hexadecimal color code and place it into your clipboard.

I think my most wanted feature, besides unicode support of course, is the ability to have a keyboard mode that falls somewhere between the current quasimodal and sticky mode.

What I mean by this is that I’d love to be able to set a short delay between the time when I release caps-lock and the command executes. My reason is that currently it’s to easy for your finger to slightly slip off the caps-lock key before you are done, especially when typing longer commands.

Implementing a (customizable) behavior such as the one I’m describing above would give you just enough time to hit caps again and correct your mistake, and not be forced to start over again. In my opinion, this would greatly improve the usability of Enso.

Another thing I think really needs to be done, and done quick, is for Enso to start listing your most frequently launched applications first, and not just sort them alphabetically. For instance, I never launch Wordpad, but I frequently launch Microsoft Word. As such, it is useless for Enso to list Wordpad as the first choice when it should have learned that this is most often not what I am looking for.

This behaviour is default for just about every application launcher out there, and for a good reason

Here are my unsolicited responses to Øyvind:
Debouncing the CapsLock:
I agree that debouncing the CapsLock-release is a good idea. It need not be customizable. The interval needs to be long enough to correct for errors, but short enough not to affect Enso responsiveness.

Word First:
If you want to give preference to MS Word, do the following:
Search for the Microsoft Office Word shortcut. Select it. Invoke the “Learn as open word” command.
“Word” now appears before “wordpad.”

Auto Learning:
If Enso learns and sorts by frequency of use, it can become disruptive. Learned gestures are no longer reliable, as the order shifts on its own. You would now have to pay closer attention to ensure you are hitting the right command. Unfortunately, the interference with learned gestures can also occur by installing new programs or new Enso commands. G[Enter] used to activate the “go” command. Now it activates the “gmail search” command.

You can implement the ‘Show Desktop’ functionality in Enso by creating a shortcut for it as follows:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190355

Feature request.

A paste function where i can “learn” Enso to paste content using the same key value principle you use to teach enso to open stuff. Please watch the last part of this TED video and you’ll see what mean.

“paste as text”

The current “paste” inserts the picture, the rich text with fonts and links, or the file. “paste as text” pastes just the plain text. In the case of a file in the clipboard, it pastes the absolute path to the file. This would be a great alternative to the hidden Vista command: Shift+RightClick, Copy as Path.

i cant “open” application wich do not have an installer … i just copy some apps where i want them and then link them to the start menu. i could not find a way to use enso to open that programms - any ideas?

0x: You can make shortcuts to your applications in the Enso’s Learn As Open Commands directory in your My Documents (or Documents under Vista) folder.

thanks for the help!

Outlook and other mail/calendar/organizer clients are very commonly used as a part of your overall taskflow. It would be great to have the following commands that interpret to outlook

- Show Calendar
- Show Inbox
- Show Tasks
- New E-mail message
- New Calendar Item

The calendar command could even do further interpretation such as “Open calendar for Dec 24″

Feature request for following enso command:
URL

example:
URL www.yahoo.com
URL www.cnn.com

The unlearn open … Command

“It should be noted, however, that if you unlearn one of Enso’s open commands, the corresponding shortcut is removed from wherever Enso found it;”

When I type “open hu” to go to www.humanized.com, my first choice is “open humanized enso.” There are several such commands that I never want to open from within Enso. However I want them to remain in my start menu. There may be a reason to keep them even though I do not use them from Enso. Also, there is no visibility as to what shortcuts have been deleted.

My suggestion:
Instead of deleting shortcuts, add an exclusion list:
Documents\Enso’s Learn As Open Commands\Unlearn Commands\

Enso would behave as if the shortcut had been deleted for all items with a corresponding shortcut here.

Aliases bring unnecessary complexity into the software and destroy our ability to jump from one computer to another and already know exactly what keys to press to get what we want.

With that said, something needs to be done to help ADD folks such as myself (or anyone else who has bad memory). I can’t memorize all of those commands, no matter how simple or common-sensicle they are. And their numbers will only grow.

Therefore, I’d like to suggest a visual “map” that displays the relevant commands when I hold down CapsLock. For example, if I have text highlighted, only show commands that manipulate text. Or, if a file is highlighted, only show commands that can affect files, and so on.

Pie menus would help keep things clean, as well as allow users to stay at their keyboards (arrow keys are well-suited for pie menu navigation).

Just a thought anyway. Thanks for reading

I second the request for the time and date commands.

First off, I really dig your guys’ work, not only on Enso, but the site, and all that it has spun off.

“Aliases bring unnecessary complexity into the software and destroy our ability to jump from one computer to another and already know exactly what keys to press to get what we want.”

To be devil’s advocate here, wouldn’t the absence of Enso on another computer be equivalent to the lack of aliases on that same computer?

Naturally, I can see you saying that in a perfect world everyone would have Enso But until such a day arrives, maybe we, as designers, need to find a way to incorporate a tolerance for variation between two computers of otherwise identical configuration, such as suggesting completions or possibilities to a user.

Just thinking out loud.

APPLE!!!!! MAKE SOME FOR APPLE!!!!!!! OMG THESE ARE SO AWESOME BUT I CANT GET THEM BECAUSE I HAVE APPLE!!!!!!!! AND THEY WOULD GO SO WELL!!!!!!

Recently I’ve been playing around with the Developer Prototype. I created an Extension that parses the result of attempting to convert something using Google, and my friends an i love using it. I called it convert.

Another extension i created is called insert and like with the open command i can teach insert to insert text for me. I really think this functionality should be part of your Launch package.

If you would consider adding insert could you please add the possibility of using something like insert to inset the strings that point to an Enso favorite.

Say i taught Enso that “example” should open C:\Example\ and now i would like to insert C:\Example\ somewhere, i would love to be able to do so simply by telling Enso insert example.

Product suggestion: A command that inserts predefined text. For example:

- hard-to-access characters like ™, é, ©
- oft-typed phrases, like an email signature

The product would allow you to setup a dictionary. In other words, it would give you shortcuts/aliases for inserting text.

I think a cool feature would be a command
Highlight word

It would search for the word in a document.

I have a question. Whats superior about ENZO than say voice apps that do the same thing with voice commands? personally, i think saying the command out loud is way easier than holding the CAPS lock (or any other key) which actually restricts one of your hands since you cannot leave the key before finishing the command? and typing something, not to mention you would have to memorize so many command words/combinations of words once the functions keep expanding. however, if ENZO products incorporate voice activation AND typing together, thats another story, that i believe makes the ultimate ‘easy to use system’

What make typing superior to voice? Both are useful. Both techniques will develop and evolve. However, voice will always be more error prone. Voice is ineffective when others are around due to ambient noise.

Voice can also be rude. Consider the cell phone user in a restaurant or in a meeting. Consider Star Trek. Only the captain commanded the computer by voice, and then, only occasionally. Imagine how disruptive it would be if everyone on the bridge chatted with the computer instead of using the control panels. The bridge would seem more like a telemarketing office.

Linux!!!

Macros/Scripts! (that could be “recorded”)
Something like saving a series of commands with an alias: e.g., open character map, selecting a strange character, copying it into the clipboard and pasting it where you are.

A command that I dearly miss:

“rename open as” -> Could be used to rename for instance “Microsoft Office Outlook 2003″ to just “outlook” (so it would be the first in my list). This way we don’t have to first unlearn the old command and learn it the new one

Linux!!!

Haven’t heard anything new here in a while. Anything new to look forward to?

Link Get All Enso Beta Products :
http://www.humanized.com/enso/beta/resources/all/InstallAllBetaProducts.exe
doesn’t match.

I would really like to remove lots of the icons swimming around in windows and other applications. So I would wish to have a application that features:

* Unplug Device X/Y/Z
* Disable/Enable Network connection
* Shutdown/Restart/Sleep/Hibernate the computer.
* Change user
* Change the volume / activate, deactivate speakers … etc.
* Terminate Application (Task manager)
* Execute command in commandline (prefered bash and not windows command line)
* Change the keyboard language and layout/mode (like hiragana/katakana for japanese keyboard)

Furthermore I think of applications to

* Tell all my instant messengers that I am away/shouldn’t be disturbed/invisible
* Open the message field to a contact in instant messanger (in which the person is online) … like

instant father -> opens instant messanger in skype because he is right now online in skype but not in Icq

* Tag and bookmark internet pages, documents

bookmark -> bookmarks current page
tag study->adds the current page to the taggroup study
random study -> shows one random link to the topic “study”
untag study -> untags this page
bookmarks study -> opens a page in current browser(or prefered) with all pages related to study

* Inline I would also see a need (for me) to convert japanese characters to html escaped characters. Like selecting japanese characters and “copy as html encoded”

but thats just my first thoughts.

take care
Martin.

One of the things that I’ve ALWAYS wanted to do is add expenses to my Quicken without having to open the program.

“spent $37.50 on lunch at the paramount”

The download link for “all betas” seems to be broken.

I realy would like an alarm funktion where i can enter a time like 8am oder a time frame like 30 minutes

very great programm!

Show an icon related to what you are typing:

examples

the open command showing an icon of the application you are about to run
show the icon of the beta program unless they give another icon to display for that command
show the icon of the browser for browser-related commands

Have the ability to make quick notes:

example note command:
note her favorite color is red

ideas of where to save the note:
- internally until list is brought up with the ‘notes’ command
- on the desktop as the name with a type-less file (’her favorite color is red’ will be the filename)
- as a widget, if its headed in that dircetion
- appended to some document
- programmable to pipe anywhere

Scheduling, alarm, and calendar commands

Can make a new alarm with commands:
alarm 10 min
alarm 2 hours
etc

after the duration, the transparent popup will appear and stay in the bottom-right until hidden. perhaps also a sound?

Can make new schedules with command:
schedule blah blah

which will then bring up a window to allow further customization such as frequency, alarms X mins/hours before scheduled time, etc

Can make reminders with command:
reminder tell humanized how great enso is

this will remind you your note at a set frequency (daily, at certain times, at startup, etc) via the transparent dialog and stay in the bottom-right until it is hidden.

The dictionary is great, but I’d love a thesaurus. I often find I must stop what I’m writing in Word or email, go to thesaurus.com, wait for it to load, enter my word, etc. An Enso thesaurus product would likely be much quick and more convenient.

I apologize for the broken “Install all beta products” link. It should be fixed now.

Tiffany, there is a thesaurus command in Enso Words. (Since we changed it to use answers.com, though, the dictionary and thesaurus commands do the same thing, since they open a page which contains both.)

great product

u really need to implement the URL command as someone else has suggested earlier

ie URL www.humanized.com
to come here

else we’d have to save all webpages we go to as commands
and thats just way too long

Suggestion to improve Enso WebSearchAnywhere and MapAnywhere :

When several lines of text are selected, Enso should replace automatically [br], [p] and all newLine characters by a simple space character.

And for the google-map command, it should automatically replace all newline characters by 1 comma + 1 space (and several spaces or tabs by one space). E.g.:
    Office de Tourisme Paris
    25, Rue des Pyramides
    75001 Paris, France

is treated as :
    Office de Tourisme Paris, 25, Rue des Pyramides, 75001 Paris, France

I’d like to see a Wikipedia search like the google search, or at least customisable commands which can use arguments sent by Enso, allowing some freedom.

and the ability to perform multiple commands with one line, and keystrokes.

i put a shortcut to “Show Desktop” in the Learned folder, however I think Enso should be more intelligent and not require “open…” to preceed the shortcut.

as feedback, i found that holding down Capslock made it difficult to type efficiently. i have instead mapped it to Right Ctrl (almost never used).

overall, i find enso showing stuff i don’t want it to show. most of my programs are accessible with 2 mouse movements and 2 clicks… my hand is more often on the mouse than on the keyboard, making Enso counterproductive imo.

i like the interface appearance

wow! really appreciate your great work!!!

my email address tells it all
A mac Version soon ?

I wasn’t able to try out Enso at the kiosk where I’d downloaded it, but I had a look at it once I got home, and I’m much impressed.
I’d like to see a few new features:
1. GNU/Linux support, especially for Ubuntu (Now, when I boot into Linux, I miss Enso sorely.)
2. _Pie menus and a mouse interface_
3. If it can be elegantly done, an utility that replaces the OS’s linear menus with pie menus.
4. Ability to perform several tasks with one command (e.g. opening several related windows side-by side) without needing to write batch or shell scripts.
5. Ability to execute typed python statements in Enso (i.e. “python math.log( 10000 )” with the result displayed as a transparent message)

A couple of things from the top of my wish list:

Enso could be the ultimate version control software for a non-IT person. Whatever you do, select something (a file, text, picture etc) and type something (”check in” or “remember this”). And if you want to get an old version back, just type something in the same place (like “check out” or “get back …”). It could work for any program and any type of activity, just as Enso generally does.

Also, it could be a kind of citation manager that has been a problem for many years. Google Scholar already outputs bibtex etc, so it should not be impossible to create perfect “cite …” and “reference list” commands.

Finally, it seems that by including speech-to-text plug in, Enso could be very easily voice-controlled.

Keep up with the great work!

Hello!
Nice site
Bye

Hi,

I find Enso Launcher a very useful and time saving piece of software. Unfortunately, though it is said in the documentation (and can be seen on demo videos across the site’s pages), EL does not see all open tabs in Firefox (ver 2.0.0.11). When i use the ‘Go’ command i get only the active tab in the list, the rest isn’t simply there.

As a student, using this program is FANASTIC! It is great to be able to open andy programs and windows with a single click of the keyboard. But i would personally like Enso products to be able to open specific files, such as word belonging to my coursework. E.g. “open test tube analysis” - which could be the name of one word doc in my computer files!

I am working with a Swedish keyboard and my system is based on the swedish language. This means i have to use ä å ö a lot to browse to system functions. The commands are there but the letters aren’t recognised when i type them. It would be great if the system would work more like my nav system, where i type an A and it doesn’t delete all options with ä or å from the list.

I like the calculate command.
but I’m missing one thing with it.

Sometimes I like to quickly calculate a price without having it already on the screen.
To do this with enso:
1. open some app where I can write in (Outlook note, Opera notes, browser adress bar etc.) this involves more or less user actions.
2. write the calc function e.g. 100*1,19 (german VAT)
3. select it with mouse or keyboard
4. enter enso calc comand
5. close app or delete note

Or do it without enso and press
1. win+r ->
2. calc ->
3. 100*1,19
4. close calc

I think this could be much simpler.
1. enter calc command
2. if nothing is selected provide a text input field to the user (I know you don’t like dialogue boxes )
3.

this could be down with several other enso commands ….

By the way keep up the good work.

P.s.: will the development on enso be stopped because you are now mozilla staff or will it continue?

uppps… in my previous post I used severall times but it is not shown… sorry.

ferging nobody (but one!) said: LINUX LINUXLINUX LINUX, and i mean targz + .deb!!!!!!!!!!!

You should allow for users to create their own command lines.

A good feature would be like the open command but for the browser.

Example: browse google
(would look up in the bookmarks and open the URL nearest match showing suggestions as the open command)

this could be a bug for the launcher. each time after i use the “quit” command to end excel 2007, enso will not work any more.

Some suggestions for Enso:
kill - hard kill focused program (or specified program)
unlearn/relearn existing programs
wiki - don’t use locale wikipedia, but specified (useful for less complete editions like the nn one)

show result of operations on-screen/transparent when buffer is not editable:
- translating
- spellcheck (with better edit options, the current one is not so nice)
- calculate

- gaute

Aliases would be good…I used to use a program called ‘launchy’ in which i could type ‘f’ and it would open FireFox immediately. With enso it’s caps,o,enter,F

Though there’s not much difference with stuff like quick launch milliseconds are of the essence!

Having said that, enso offers a million more features than launchy…i guess everything comes at a cost

Linux, please.

is there a math program?

ooops sorry. Calc. I was not clever enough and tried “add” and “multiply”. I’ll have to practice this.

Something to manage multiple language input in Windows would be much appreciated.

The current mode of Left Alt+Shift to switch languages is easy but when having to type multilingual text it can get easily confusing, forcing mode errors.

i want to be able to highlight something and then use the “open” command in enso 2.0 to launch it. that way when i’m in a readme, i can launch it without typing in a long web address.

i want enso to access my firefox saved data, so that it can auto complete my webpages when i try to open a “www.” minimally, i want to be able to delete things i have entered that were mistypes within enso’s open function.

a way to open weblinks on the web when i am surfing would be awesome. maybe an application called “link?”

lastly of all, i want LEAP! please, dont leave me another day without leap. my life is empty without it. minimally, a search program would be nice (so that i wouldnt have to use ctl+f), but leap would be so much nicer! i know it wont be able to leap anywhere, like in archy, but it would be a start.

Vista: Integrating desktop search
Alternative: possibility to search in e-mail by Enso.

Speech-to-text would make this an awesome!
*dreaming* …it would be incredibly time saving… */dreaming*

James, you can already show the desktop by pressing windows key + m

A really nice feature that it would be cool to have, is mouse gestures.

Just like Mouse gestures for FireFox or Opera, I surely have wanted a feature like that, for the rest of my OS for a long time.

in firefox 2.0.0.12, the flash “see all ensa betas” link does not work when clicked on, but it does in internet explorer (i have no idea how to find the version in vista).

mads–search strokeit, which will give you mouse gestures for the rest of your operating system.

This is a suggestion for a new product (although you could, maybe, squeeze it in some of the existing ones).
Problem:
With the big (19″+) monitors, you often want to have several windows open. But it’s very annoying to always position and resize those windows. Also, you often work with the same combination of programs.
It would be very nice if you had some kind of “desktop layout templates”. Think of them as of HTML frames - you define placeholders and then load windows into them.
Solution:
So, if you use your computer for work, you would open, for instance, your IDE, database manager and server console in the defined template. You stop working and open movie player and Skype and something into the other template.

It seems to me that you’re the perfect company to send this wish to (I sent it to KDE also, but no one answered)… Any opinions?

heh.. that “Solution:” header should have been placed one paragraph above…

this looks really awesome, and I tried to online developer preview
is there going to be a mac version?
remember, if you want to make a linux version, it could run on a mac through X11

Yo!
I’ve reinstalled the Enzo Beta (from the classic due to reinstallation of XP).

Now I see you have tackled the ÅÄÖ and other special characters problem.
One thing, might be a transitional thing, is that I’m used to write the command in one go (which is faster, e.g. writting “open moz”).
I can’t do that with the new style.

As far as I can see the character after the command isn’t used? Couldn’t they be re-inserted into the new “pop-up” prompt if I enter them with the command. Say “open moz” would bring up a prompt with “moz” already filled in.
That way I get both of two worlds (which you guys probably have a very reasonable reason why it’s a bad thing :-D)

Anyway just a though.

Keep up you excitingly fresh work!!!
/M.J. Caboose

integration with a version control software would be great

There is a function that I have been looking for for a while.
It may be beneficial in your program Enso Words. (When it is running in the background, it could be keeping an eye on the state of the Capslock key)
I would like noises (clicks or something), to alert me whenever I type with the Capslock key on.
This is to alert me that I am typing in capitals, when I don’t intend to.
The noise should be noticeable, but not obnoxious, for the times when I intend to type in uppercase.

Thanks,
Rob

Hey there Humanized,

I just wanted to tell you how much being able to translate things into ‘pirate’ makes my life more amusing. Thank you for having such a HUMAN sense of humor!

i find an inconsistency in the program, which might violate some of the humane principles that guide the project.

when i use the open command, it auto completes to the first suggestion, but when i use the google comman, it does not auto complete to the first suggestion. this means one command does not behave as the other, meaning i have to learn two different ways of reacting with the interface.

i do not know how to rectify this, as auto completing google searches might complicate things.

i have been having trouble adapting to this difference, even though it is simple. i keep expecting google to auto complete to its suggestions and it does not, as open does, go does, and indeed caps lock does when invoking commands.

I’m getting an odd crash, just started hapening:

1. I start Enso
2. I hit caps lock and type a command (I have the full modal option turned on)
3. The command works
4. I try again, but this time, nothing pops up in the corner of my screen. also, nothing happens, even if I type a legit command
5. Nothing on the system tray context menu does anything, even exit

The odd thing is that the key capturing behavior still works when it’s crashed; when typing in notepad, capslock stops sending keystrokes to notepad and enter starts them up again.

I’m running all of the beta products except for 2.0.

Actually, it’s specifically the pause command that crashes it; other commands seem to work as expected

learning which commands you use most would be useful, and put them top, for instance if theres a command that you use rarely, but is always on top it is very annoying

There is a thing on Google Maps, and on other sites I would like to see : the possibility to place 2 dots and see the distance between them, whatever the scale of the map.

It could be useful in order to know how long i will walk once outside the subway for example !

How about a comand to lock the desktop?

Linux support would be nice.

Since Twitter is about letting people know what you are doing, it would be cool to be able to do it regardless of what app I am using.

Do you think you could add the ability to send a Twitter message?

Better yet. Could you make Enso communicate with Ping.fm?

About the aforementioned pie menus, why not use a letter representing each choice instead of using the mouse or arrow keys? That way you could be “information efficient” without having to memorize commands or taking your hand off the keyboard. The branching factor should be kept at a managable level though, say, no more than 7 choices per node, or maybe just 5.

Something similar would also work with the suggestion list.

The way it works now is when I type “o[enter]a” I get a suggestion list of things containing an ‘a’. I can type more letters to get better suggestions, but I have to use the arrow keys to scroll to one I like.

It would be easier if I could just choose one from the list instantly:

I hold [capslock], type “o[enter]a”, I get:
(a) open faq
(b) open java
(c) open email
(d) open paint
(e) open hearts

Now when I release [capslock] with a valid suggestion list Enso would stay. I can still hit [enter] to chose the default and close Enso (this is what releasing [capslock] did before) or I can hold [capslock] again to type more letters for a better list.

But now I can hit a letter to open that item and close Enso (with the above list “d” to open paint, or “e” to open hearts, etc).

This is more “information efficient” than hitting the down arrow until I get what I want, or typing lots more letters in similar names until I get to a letter that’s different.

To cancel after releasing [capslock], I could hit [Esc], or bump the mouse, or hold [capslock] again and mash the keyboard till there’s no valid list, then release [capslock].

What do you think?

I’d like a “run” command in place of “open run…” (You can’t type a slash without using shift, but you CAN type a backslash!) This would, of course, do the same thing as the run dialog box.

It would be nice if the “go” command also displayed the window/tab icon in the suggestion list in front of the name.

Is it possible to have some kind of “learn as open with” command?

Highlight the file, type the command, select the application to open with (the same way as the “open with” command), then Enso would pop up a box (in the corner) asking for the new name to remember it by.

Your article, Transparent Messages, also explains their problem: they disappear too easily! That’s something I found annoying about Enso. Sometimes I actually wanted to read a message before I dismissed it accidentally.

The article also proposed a solution: a message log. That would be a great solution if it reliably catches all the messages and the user knows where to find it!

I looked. I couldn’t find it. Maybe it’s not implemented yet?

The “put” only works after a calculation? There’s so much more you could do with this! Enso can already “cut”, “copy” and “paste”, but it could be so much more!

Enso could have a great clipboard replacement utility. If you had a commands like “cut as” or “copy as” (some name) you could store the cilpboard contents to a name. Then you could type “paste as”. That would bring up a suggestion list of some names of clips you’ve stored, with little previews of what’s stored in them.

You select which one just like with the other commands, then release [capslock] to paste it.

Please add an additional command that shows details about the currently played song, e.g. “current song” or “song details”.

Great products, thanks!

Things to help with PhotoShop, Visio, UML modeling would be great! I also like the Outlook suggestions above.

For the Media Remote Control, supporting more genres and playlists PLAY PLAYLIST would be useful

Great work guys!

The installer is great. No interaction, doesn’t ask me a dozen questions and closes itself. Only improvement would be to have it delete the installer files when it is finished so i don’t have to remove them myself

Great product, I love it.

One feature I would like to see added is ‘Enso Note’. Press ‘Caps Lock’ and type ‘note’ to see all of your notes (.txt and.html in your Enso folder). Then click ‘Enter’ to select the note you want. If it’s a list with passwords, simply move down to the password you need and click ‘Enter’ again to copy it to the clipboard (if you format the text file with tags like [username]Joe, Enso Notes will be smart enough to copy just ‘Joe’). You can use the same engine for contacts (sync with Gmail, obviously).

I would also like to add my support for the ‘alarm’ feature. Simply typing ‘alarm’ ‘12:00 meet with Susan’ would be ideal!

And furthermore, I think the ‘open’ step of the beta 2 is too cumbersome. Why not create a quickstep by clicking (yes, I do not use a sticky key) Caps twice for default-to-open?

Another feature I’d like to see is a ‘Recent’ or ‘Favourite’ item, where, say, the last ten or twenty items, or the most recently used commands are listed (sorted by frequency, of course). When you press Caps twice to quickly get to the open dialog, a list pops up at the bottom of the input field with the ten favourite picks, which you can select by pressing tab. In this separate field, you can then use the keyboard to quickly select the item you want: ‘r’ gets you to ‘remote desktop’ for instance. In fact, when you press ‘Caps-Tab’ the list pops up immediately, and when you let go of ‘Tab’ the selected item is opened automatically.

I love Enso and have used for a long time. Enso map does not work for me. If I type a restaurant name in an emai. highlight it, and give the map command, I get the Champs Elysees…weird.. I gues I don’t know how to use it.

i would really like a word processing batch of programs for enso . i’m thinking save, save as, bold, italic, change font to, double space, single space, 1.5 space, print….

I think Enso Lancher should use information which already exist in the system. For example, windows has rich context menu information. I would like Enso to notice that the current active window is an Explorer and that I’m selecting a rar file and give the command extract by looking in Windows context menu information.
That way we can use the information already put in by any application installed on your machine.

OK, I have an idea for a product. Some sort of HTML and JavaScript validator or tool that helps with writing HTML / JavaScript. Just a thought!

I find Enso launcher very helpful and am about to suggest it to all members in my company.

I think that a “web” command should be used as kind of “go on the web and search for/ go to…”. In terms of mental model, browsing on the internet is completely different type of action than opening a file or a folder. The folder is local, the web is outside. This would also enable to avoid problems with duplicated names: what if I want to open the main page of my client’s site rather than a folder on my computer where I store the work I am preparing for them? “Network” also could be used to browse the folders within the main server within the organization

I love this thing (ENSO Launcher) ! It would be nice with a command “tasklist”, viewing list of programs you’ve started, as an supplement to “open”