Lacona

Call up Lacona with a keyboard shortcut and type whatever you want to do. It gives intelligent suggestions as you type and then follows your orders.

~1 Email/Month

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Ditch the Dock

With Lacona, your Apps, Bookmarks, Files, System Preferences, Contacts, and more are only a few keystrokes away. You can also manage your open apps right from your keyboard.

open Calendar
open Parental Controls
open Facebook and Twitter
open Bruce Banner
iTunes
quit Safari
open lacona.io in Safari and Firefox
switch to Messages
open kickstarter.com
open ~/Downloads/Lacona.dmg
open Gmail and Reminders and calendar.google.com
lifehacker.com
close Reminders
open todo.txt
open my-document.docx with Pages

Organize your Life, not your Calendar

Create reminders and schedule events as though you were talking to a person. Lacona understands. You can even use birthdays and anniversaries in your commands. It's natural!

schedule Party at 7pm Friday
remind me to Pick up the car September 12 at 11:30am
remind me to Buy a gift 2 weeks before my wife's birthday
schedule Vacation 10a Monday to 6:30p Thursday
remind me to Buy a gift 7 days before 12/1
remind me to Call Jenny
schedule Ski Trip Next Friday to Sunday
remind me to Charge my phone at 9pm

Setting Settings, Settled

With Lacona, there is no need to fiddle with menus and forms to change your basic settings. Turn off your Wifi, turn on Do Not Disturb, eject drives, or even restart your computer with just a few keystrokes. You can set time limits on settings, so you won't forget to change them back.

turn on wifi
toggle bluetooth
shutdown
eject Lacona.dmg
turn off display
empty Trash
enable bluetooth
toggle wifi and do not disturb for 25 minutes
turn on the screensaver

Seek and Ye Shall Find

Search the web like a boss. Use powerful fallthrough functionality to save even more keystrokes. You can even search multiple sites with a single command.

search Google for pictures of cats
Google stormtroopers
Amazon Avengers
search Wikipedia for Pluto
search eBay and Amazon for iPhone 6

Your Personal DJ

Instantly play anything in your iTunes library, without ever touching the mouse. Choose a bunch of songs or artists together to build an impromptu playlist. You can also control playback effortlessly.

play Couch Potato
play Wild Life
play next song
play Walk the Moon
play Forever and I Bet My Life and Nicki Minaj
play next song
play Pop and Jazz
pause

Keep in Touch

Easily communicate with all of your contacts over Email, FaceTime, and iMessage. Make calls and send texts through your iPhone. Smoke signals not yet supported.

call Mom
email Tony Stark
email Dinner Plans to Clinton and Natalia
facetime my boss
facetime Bruce Banner
call my Husband
email [email protected]
call +1 617 867 5309

Become a Global Citizen

Quickly translate words, phrases, and websites between languages. It's the quickest, most natural interface for Google Translate.

translate мороженное
translate univision.com
translate 我爱你 to Korean
translate como estas? from Spanish to Japanese
translate hujambo from Swahili
translate I don't know to Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish

The Sky's the Limit

Lacona is built to be extended. An open Developer API gives it the power do anything you need, quickly and easily. Here are some ideas. Currently Available to Developers!

tweet just setting up my twttr #blessed
skype Aaron
email my last instagram picture to Mom
calculate sqrt(5)
turn off the kitchen lights
pronounce indefatigable
check APPL
set default browser to Firefox
set a timer for 25 minutes
execute ps -ef | grep -i lacona
email walking directions from Penn Station NY to my house to Pepper Potts
block reddit.com
subscribe to lifehacker
paste my last tweet
fork lacona/lacona
define antediluvian
roll d12
find flights from SFO to BOS on 8/6/2015
yo THEDUDE
set an alarm for 6am on Christmas
check the weather in Boston