The Biggest Lacona Update + Black Friday Sale! View this email in your browser Lacona 1.1.1 Is Available (And On Sale!)

The biggest Lacona update ever is now available! Check out 260+ new features through IFTTT, dramatically improved performance, a completely redesigned Preferences experience, and a brand new website, an official Subreddit, and more... just in time for an awesome Black Friday sale! This is a doozy of an email, so read on!

Lacona + IFTTT = Incredibly Powerful

Lacona now works with IFTTT through the Lacona IFTTT Addon. That means you can control 260 services (at the time of this email) straight from Lacona. Use the full power of Lacona to tweet, set your thermostat, add Todoist reminders, find your phone, save websites to read later... and appromately 255 other things.





Download the IFTTT Addon, connect it to the Maker Channel, and internet is your oyster. Find out how!

Lacona + Performance = Blazingly Fast

If you have been using Lacona for a long time, you may have noticed that the many feature additions have led to some slowness. For this release, we focused in on these slowdowns and eliminated them. Our benchmarks indicate that Lacona 1.10 is 7x faster for most commands (compared to 1.0.x).



If you were turned off by Lacona's slowness compared to Spotlight, give it another shot! You'll be pleasantly surprised, to say the least.

Lacona + Usability = Blissfully Simple



This release brings a completely redesigned Preferences experience. This fixes some of the most common problems that users have voiced: It's now possible to individually disable all system features . Don't have your results cluttered with things you don't need.

. Don't have your results cluttered with things you don't need. You can now view beautiful examples of everything that Lacona can do. Looking through the preferences is a joy as you learn new commands that Lacona understands.

of everything that Lacona can do. Looking through the preferences is a joy as you learn new commands that Lacona understands. Installing and managing Addons is now much easier . Addons have colorful icons, helpful examples, and more useful preferences.

. Addons have colorful icons, helpful examples, and more useful preferences. New Shortcuts allow you to work more efficiently. Lacona + Reddit = Productive Community

Much of the support for Lacona over the years has come from Reddit. As such, we've decided to create an official Lacona subreddit - /r/lacona. Subscribe and discuss new Lacona ideas, features, and other interesting stuff.

Other Beautiful Things Lacona has a gorgeous new website, with more information about what makes it so useful and powerful .

. Lacona now supports 24-hour time . (Sorry it took so long, non-Americans!)

. (Sorry it took so long, non-Americans!) Check out the new GitHub addon - really useful if you're constantly bouncing between repos.

addon - really useful if you're constantly bouncing between repos. Lacona is and always be free to use for everybody. In order to better highlight what "purchasing a Lacona license" means, we've changed the name to Lacona Pro. This does not change anything - anyone who purchased a Lacona license is now a proud owner of Lacona Pro. It's simply a nomenclature change to make things more clear. Black Friday 40% Off Sale



In light of all these awesome new things, we're running the biggest sale yet. Use coupon code BLACKFRIDAY to recieve 40% off your purchase of Lacona Pro. This is probably the largest sale we will ever do, so purchase Lacona Pro today!



That's like ¢7 per new feature. :)



Share Lacona

If you're excited about Lacona or where it's going, then follow @Lacona on Twitter, subscribe to the /r/lacona subreddit, upvote Lacona on ProductHunt, and most importantly: share Lacona with your friends - on Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Hacker News - anywhere and everywhere.



The more people get involved, the more useful and powerful Lacona will become.



~Brandon Horst

Founder & Developer, Lacona Labs

lacona.io