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Intermediate Quicksilver tutorial
Merlin Mann | Feb 23 2005
Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog: Quicksilver: From A Better OS X To Even More Dan Dickinson wrote the tutorial that inspired me to first try Quicksilver, lo, those eleven epochal months ago (via Todd). It’s now my favorite app on the Mac, partly because of (or in spite of) the fact that it continues to yield the 10,000 secret functions hiding in its many alcoves. Dan’s new tutorial is an equally swell intermediate lesson that walks you through some of the sexier features in a clear, unintimidating manner. Here’s an answer to one that’s been confusing me a bit for a while now:
Nice work, Dan. Not sure I’ve ever asked here, so spill: What’s your favorite novel use for Quicksilver? What place has it found in your workflow? 27 Comments
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 Not quite answering your question,...Submitted by JoshD (not verified) on February 23, 2005 - 9:27am.
Not quite answering your question, and this is a really mac-nerdy thing, but my favorite Quicksilver feature is the new optional appearance that's tucked away in the preferences pane. I'm not certain why, but it makes the concept of QS as an adaptive command and control center much easier to grok. Unfortunately, it murders my aging powerbook, but works fine on the G5. More to the point, here's my favorite use for Quicksilver; it can select folders of bookmarks in safari, not just the bookmarks themselves. Then you can tab to the actions field and hit "Open." And it'll open the bookmarks in tabs. Better; it won't clear your existing tabs, it just adds on to them. OR it reloads any tabs showing a bookmark in the folder. This trumps the Safari folder-tab implementation by far. Just try it. Thus, my bookmarks bar has a folder called "Daily," and "d-tab-o" is probably the first and most common thing I ever do in quicksilver. Now that Dan has explained what the "shift" key option does, I think "dO" may end up replacing that. » POSTED IN:
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