how to remove macOs process after deleting the app?

[VladimirShleyev]

Hello)
Was testing the app. Deleted. But a macOS process with the name 'Andrew Huynh', that lives in Mac login objects still there. How to remove it?

[a5huynh]

Hey @VladimirShleyev!

No worries at all, Apple for doesn't make it super easy to remove it from their settings interface, but you are able to go the folder /Users/<your username>/Library/LaunchAgents. There will be a file callled Spyglass Search.plist that you can delete. After a restart, it should no longer be in your "Login Items".

Let me know if that works for you.

If you don't mind telling us as well, how did you discover the app and what were you expecting from the app and is there any additional features/functionality that would've made you use it more?

[VladimirShleyev]

Hello @a5huynh !

Thank you for quick response! It worked for we just fine) Do not know why AppCleaner didn't find all traces.

As for your questions.

Rust and Tauri attract my attention great, so when I saw an app done with that, I simply could not resist to give a try)
Pro's:

• tech stack, great UI and idea
• cool idea with plugins
  Con's:
• on my Mac M1 Max with 32gb ram and 1tb ssd indexing just 10% of Documents folder (365.000 files) took nearly 3 hours, so I paused indexing and tried to search (additional: I installed rust, r lang, vue plugins)
• when tried searching - there were modal window: 'js error time out'
• I was somewhat ready for space required for indexing, but if 10% of just one Documents folder weighted about + 5gb ssd - how much space would it take for 100% coverage of my ssd? Besides of web crawling..
  So I didn't touch app functionality, even it was rather promising. May be I do not have some deps or my hands grow not from my shoulders)

If I may suggest few thoughts:

• would be nice to have search topics, that will start on schedule and will store the results in somewhat a report in a dashboard. For example, as a researcher, I would like to monitor Arxiv.org and so on for papers matter for me. Once configured - and you are good to go.
• what is the difference between standard Mac search in Finder and indexed search from the Spyglass? Toolbar is cool of course, but nevertheless. May be fuzzy-search/sentiment-analysis/obsidian-like search between linked files. Something extra.
• when we are crawling web - one could face lack of ssd space very soon, may be to add scheduled jobs on a remote server, where all the fun will going on (hdd/ssd for index storage, 24/7 online and so on) and toolbar search will retrieve the results from remote/or local index
• the idea with plugins is wonderful, but lets imagine. I've subscribed for some topic from Reddit. This means that I may want to have some starred search-results topics in a dashboard, for example. Or history of searching. Or to see how some topic on Reddit looked like in a time-series view in a diagram. Just to know, for example - what is going on with some libs popularity.
• summary of lots of many-paged crawled search results docs would be nice. Perplexity.ai, as an example. Let's say - you type in a toolbar some topic - start searching and get results page with extract of most important thoughts from the docs with citation links.

So many words) excuse my verbose answer)

I would be glad to contribute to the project in some way. UI/UX prototypes in Figma/Lunacy, some PO feedback, small feature improvements on js front-end/ rust back-end. Feel free to get in touch) Thanks)