Joeth said:
Kokopelli, what do you find so amazingly great about QuickSilver? If you could just give me a couple of examples of how you use it. I downloaded it and don't really seem to have the need for it. I'm not doubting it's useful for you
Just saying I can't seem to find a use for it.
Gladly, but as I mention in my revised post above, it will be next week. I don't think I could do the application justice with a quick post; some of the linkage above is to walkthroughs though. What caught my attention and made me decide to look deeper at QuickSilver is that when I first got my PB I did a google for "top 10" lists of OS X applications. QS was on over half of them. I do not think any other single app came close to as many mentions. That search is also where I found a good chunk of my own top 10 list above.
I am not kidding when I say I could write a small book on the subject if I had the time and inclination. The more you use it and the more you experiment the more you figure out how to do. I use QS all the time, I constantly try and figure out new features, and I have gone as far as writing a pair of (mostly useless to anyone but me) plugins for it. So I think it fair to say I take the app seriously.
A couple of quick examples though. NOTE: These examples use custom settings and/or additional plugins.
1) tap <ctrl> type the first three letters of any application and hit enter. Boom, there you go. It is not always 3. Sometimes 2 or 4, but it is a lot easier than navigating using finder.
2) <ctr>a (which is set as a trigger), then 'm' to launch the mac-forums, 's' to launch Slashdot, 'o' for OSNews, 'c' for CNN.
2.1) <ctrl>a then 'm,s,o,c' to launch them all at once
3) <CTRL><CMD><Space> and then the beginning of an artist to browse that artists albums in my iTunes library.
3.1) <ctrl><cmd>arrow keys for next track, previous track, pause/play, and stop
4) Tap <ctrl> and 'dom' then enter to display Domino's phone number from my address book without ever opening the address book.
4.1) Tap <ctrl> the beginning of my sisters name, tab, m, enter to launch mail and start a message to my sister. (looking up her address from the address book and automatically starting an email to her)
5) various other key combinations to launch different apps like camino (<ctrl><cmd>c), adium (<ctrl><cmd>a), voodoopad (<ctrl><cmd>v) and so forth. This is for the apps I use constantly so I do not even have to type the first three letters. (I also have triggers ot launch groups of apps)
6) <ctrl>s, g, enter, then type a google search
6.1) <ctrl>s, m, enter, then type a macupdate search
6.3) <ctrl>s, i, enter, then type an IMDB search
6.4) etc... (google images, rotten tomatoes, javadocs, XCode docs, Dictionary, Froogle, and so on)
Regret asking yet?