Comments on: Quicksilver Changes Everything

By: Apple Laptop Battery

Apple Laptop Battery — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:06:55 +0000

What solved it for me was:
– Open QS Preferences;
– go to the Plug-Ins panel;
– go to the All Plug-Ins page;
– make sure that “Text Manipulation Actions” is checked.

Hope that helps.

By: Art

Art — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:31:44 +0000

I know I’m commenting on an old post, but I just wanted to say thanks for one of the posts that helped me get started with Quicksilver.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:47:29 +0000

Nice intro to QS. I use QS primarily, but not exclusively, for working with iGTD. Works great, and speeds up some other tasks as well.

By: Xavier Kreiss

Xavier Kreiss — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:15:12 +0000

Quite a few of the commands don’t work if you use a non-English (ie non qwerty ) keyboard.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:48:28 +0000

@David Shorter: I had the same problem with “Append To” — there’s a good troubleshooting guide at:
http://www.43folders.com/2005/11/21/qs-redux/

What solved it for me was:
– Open QS Preferences;
– go to the Plug-Ins panel;
– go to the All Plug-Ins page;
– make sure that “Text Manipulation Actions” is checked.

Hope that helps.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:31:32 +0000

OK, I tried Quicksilver on at least three occasions and simply don’t like it–at all. So there you have it, you know of at least one person that thinks it is over-hyped. To see more, look at the latest Versiontracker reviews where the latest version has a 3.5/5 star rating.

By: David Shorter

David Shorter — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:58:07 +0000

One last thing, when i find the folder, application, or document i’m looking for, why are “close” nor “minimize” any of the options i can choose? I appreciate any advice to three (i’m sure pretty ignorant) questions.

By: David Shorter

David Shorter — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:43:58 +0000

And when typing “goo” for google search, i don’t get search. i get google news, no matter what i type. no google search option is shown….

By: David Shorter

David Shorter — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:39:38 +0000

When I try the “append to” task, as in the example, all I get in the second pane is “run as applescript.” no other options.

By: Michael L.

Michael L. — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:06:28 +0000

This comment is pretty late in the game, but I just wanted to say thanks for the above. I’ve been using a Mac for a little over a day — Quicksilver looks like an amazing tool.

By: Sten62506

Sten62506 — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:14:58 +0000

I just don’t have anything to say right now. I haven’t been up to anything recently, but it’s not important. I’ve just been sitting around waiting for something to happen, but shrug.

By: Azzurra

Azzurra — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:45:26 +0000

Buon luogo, congratulazioni, il mio amico!

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By: Taldar

Taldar — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:09:07 +0000

I just thought it was worth mentioning: You can easily select more than one file to perform an action on. Just find the first file in QS and press COMMA (,). Then find the second one and press COMMA. Keep finding files (as many as you want) and pressing COMMA. Then, press enter or choose an action, just like it was one regular old file.

Please note that this works in all interfaces, but it only works well in the Bezel and Primer interfaces. In others, you may not be able to see the current search results (easily).

By: MEP

MEP — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:38:27 +0000

@fos

It’s not a dumb question. Spotlight indexes the contents of your hard drive and a lot of your application data so that it can be searched for very easily. When you find what you want in Spotlight, you select it and Spotlight opens up the appropriate files in the appropriate application. And that is the key difference right there. Spotlight lets you find your data, but you still have to access the appropriate applications to actually use any of that data.

Quicksilver lets you find stuff much the same as Spotlight does, but in addition to that, you can access, view and manipulate that “stuff” without leaving Quicksilver. So not only can I find the file on my hard drive that I want to email to my uncle, I can, in the space of a few keystrokes, attach that file to a new mail message and address that message to my uncle all within Quicksilver. Spotlight lets me easily find a directory full of files I want to compress into a .zip archive. Quicksilver lets me easily find that directory, compress that directory, and attach the .zip archive to a new mail message ready to be sent to the recipient of my choice. The only thing I have to do outside of the Quicksilver interface is write the body of the mail message and hit “send”.

Spotlight lets you find your data. Quicksilver lets you find your data, access your data, operate on your data, edit your data and it can let you chain a series of simple operations together to accomplish complex tasks that might otherwise require you to open up or interact with several different applications and their interfaces. It’s like the power of the Unix command line brought to the OS X GUI.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:47:02 +0000

Hey Birger - glad it helped you out. I’ve got a couple more Quicksilver pieces that should be dropping in the coming weeks, so keep an eye out for those.

By: Birger Nordoelum

Birger Nordoelum — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:02:58 +0000

I bow before your knees. This guide really helped me understand what QuickSilver is. Thank you!

Birger:)

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 11 May 2006 00:44:37 +0000

I just discovered Quicksilver and am in total awe. Comapred to it, Spotlight is like a footnote in the world of OS X. Quicksilver is utterly amazing.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:22:18 +0000

daap -
you might just try selecting bezel as the appearance, and then restarting it. since it’s in beta, never know when something might need a little extra push to take effect.

By: daap

daap — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:31:04 +0000

i changed my appearance of qs to bezel but the little menu that comes down still looks like premir, how do i change it to like bezel?

By: Hyun

Hyun — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:44:22 +0000

What keys are you referring to here? Nice tips by the way.
“Press and hold . for a second.”

By: jim

jim — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:21:08 +0000

Nick,

thanks for the quick reply. Worked Great! now i can’t wait to really start using quicksilver.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:05:22 +0000

Jim - If you go into the preferences for QS, go to the catalog. Select the desktop (or whichever collection your Desktop may reside in) and click the little reload icon in the bottom right of the window. That should update it appropriately for you.

Also, check the frequency with which QS is re-scanning your catalogs - it may be spaced too far apart for your tastes.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:54:26 +0000

My quicksilver catalog shows some files on my desktop that have been erased. Is there a way to delete those out of my catalog and off my disk. (the files show up as question marks icons in quicksilver)

By: Andrew J. Cowell

Andrew J. Cowell — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:38:48 +0000

Quicksilver->Preferences->Command->HotKey Activation.

By: Sigurdur Armannsson

Sigurdur Armannsson — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:41:15 +0000

I was wondering if anyone here had at the top of their minds where I could change the Command-/ command to something else as I am using a “foreign” keyboard where the / is not one keybutton, but a combination (Shift-7) which does not work in the same manner in Quicksilver

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By: fos

fos — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 22:32:34 +0000

don’t want to be dumb… but how is this any better than spotlight?!? All the main function seem to do the same from spotlight… and its totally intergrated into OSX…

Am I missing a trick here?!?

By: onga

onga — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:54:59 +0000

i’m on mac osx 10.3.9 have not upgraded to Tiger yet and not sure what version of QS

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:08:00 +0000

Hey onga -

are you in the beta, development versions? which version are you on? which version of OS X?

to answer your question, I actually use Spotlight to launch QS in the uncommon event that it quits on me.

check the forums at Blacktree.com too - lots of great help there for QS.

By: onga

onga — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:58:28 +0000

this is what it inputs 8:1048840

By: onga

onga — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:57:37 +0000

i’m experiencing some odd behavior in QS, when i try to add a trigger, it reverts to a number, for both the item and the trigger command

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:38:08 +0000

I have QS set to open on startup.