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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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 kadavy - there's a preference...Submitted by Dan Dickinson (not verified) on February 24, 2005 - 5:51am.
kadavy - there's a preference under the Command panel called "ModKey" - this may be what you're seeing. You can set it to any modifier and a selectable number of taps, too. And Alcor pointed out one more feature to me last night - if you hold down a key in the target field (preferably the last key you typed in your search), after about three seconds it will automatically run the action displayed. The next time you do it, it's much quicker (about half a second of holding), as you've taught Quicksilver you want to run the action with that key. Alcor says he uses this to do all his app switching - this will be a godsend for me as I can unbind most of my app-run fkey triggers. Something new every day. » POSTED IN:
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