Quicksilver

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

What do you use it for? How do you use it?

 

[Kaido]

I mostly use it for opening apps and files. It's much quicker than Spotlight and usually knows exactly what I'm looking for.

 

[EGGO]

It's the quickest way to open anything. Youtube has a great tutorial about it. It learns your keystrokes and everything. Much faster than moving my mouse down and clicking on Firefox on the dock just by pressing Control+Space and "F" (it now knows that button usually comes up as firefox so it's first choice).

 

[TheStu]

I never could get into the mindframe of using it, but I know that it is one of those either love it or don't sort of things. There are those that swear by Quicksilver and wouldn't use a Mac without it (sort of like me and 2 finger scrolling/secondary clicking) and those that don't care.

 

[Rufus12]

I like how it allows me to keep my dock clean. One of my big pet peeves is when people have a gazillion apps on their dock.

 

[randomlinh]

I use it mainly as an app launcher. you can do more, but I never have quite understood the benefits. I have found it useful when I need to open documents with other apps that it's not associated with. eg, open an excel file w/ office 2003 in crossover as opposed to the default of office 2008. quite handy.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: randomlinh
I use it mainly as an app launcher. you can do more, but I never have quite understood the benefits. I have found it useful when I need to open documents with other apps that it's not associated with. eg, open an excel file w/ office 2003 in crossover as opposed to the default of office 2008. quite handy.

Same...I think it's a very powerful system that I just need a good tutorial on. I understand the basics of using it as an app/file launcher, but that's about it. I'm perfectly happy with that it does for me though!

 

[Looney]

One of the few must-have apps imo. I use it for everything, from launching apps to finding documents.

 

[UlricT]

quick finder: invoke quicksilver, keep ~ or / pressed... get to your home/root directory
quick move/copy: invoke quicksilver, find the file you want to move/copy, hit TAB, start typing copy/move, hit TAB, type in destination
clipboard history : invoke quicksilver, hit ?-L... (might have to enable it in preferences)

 

[sourceninja]

I couldn't get into it. I just use spotlight

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I couldn't get into it. I just use spotlight

I'm with you. Actually, not entirely. I barely use both. I use Spotlight for when I need to find something that I cannot remember the name of the file. I leave open most all of the apps that I use all the time anyway and so don't really need something like Quicksilver.

 

[suklee]

Originally posted by: Rufus12
I like how it allows me to keep my dock clean. One of my big pet peeves is when people have a gazillion apps on their dock.

I have recently noticed my desktop has an overcrowded dock, and removed as many non-essential programs as I can. I'll give Quicksilver a go since it seems to be highly regarded by many around here.

Are there other strategies for managing shortcuts to programs? I tried creating a folder on the right side of the dock and manually creating aliases, but this seems cumbersome.

 

[sourceninja]

I just hit command space, type a few characters of the app I want and it shows up I press enter and it opens.

My dock is actually empty if nothing is running (well except it shows finder)

 

[ubercaffeinated]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I just hit command space, type a few characters of the app I want and it shows up I press enter and it opens.

My dock is actually empty if nothing is running (well except it shows finder)

same. actually it safari and firefox and finder.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: makoto00

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I just hit command space, type a few characters of the app I want and it shows up I press enter and it opens.

My dock is actually empty if nothing is running (well except it shows finder)

same. actually it safari and firefox and finder.

Finder, Mail, Safari, iTunes, Adium, TextEdit, Terminal are in my dock all the time. Quicktime usually is just because of all the movies and tv shows i watch

 

[suklee]

Nice, just installed QS and went through the couple Youtube videos. Liking it a lot. :thumbsup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBvFUhTqKK4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...OeqIrk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...6xxnh4&feature=related