The more I read and learn about this application the more and more I fall madly in love with it.
If you are a Mac user, and find the built in Spotlight functionality useful, you might want to consider the similar, yet infinitely more powerful application Quicksilver. Not only is it able to find, move and get deep inside items and applications by proxy (without ever having opening that item or application) it also looks a lot prettier!
Quicksilver is not for the light at heart. Your grandmother or mother is not going to be using this in its advanced forms. The concept of this app is that it makes it possible to do away with the ‘folder’ hierarchy of data management. Think of it as Google’ing your entire life (at first).
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It is extremely important to point out that you should not be scared by the Quicksilver. Accept the Quicksilver, it is your friend. Install it, and if nothing else, use it as a shortcut for opening applications, or like a spotlight replacement. It may take some time, but once you understand how this application works, you’ll use more and more of its branches as you go. Honestly, it had taken me about six months before exploring further ’skins of the onion’.
Aaron’s Introduction to Quicksilver:
Step 1: Download Quicksilve: http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
Step 2: Turn-off the keyboard shortcuts for Spotlight (from the pref. panel, just click both of them off)
Step 3: In Quicksilver’s Preferences, change the ‘Command’ section’s hotkey to Cmd+Spacebar
Step 4: Make a point to, instead of searching manually through the Finder for your documents or even moving your mouse to the dock for your applications, Cmd+Spacebar and start typing its name, or file extension or anything you can remember about that object.
If you’re like me, you have about eighty folders labeled ‘junk’ or ’school’, each of them have multiple papers, music etc. It used to actually bother me that these junk folders were so unorganized… consider that superfluous. Type, and find, immediately.
If you are familiar with Quicksilver up to this point, please keep an eye on the ‘apps’ section, as there will be more Quicksilver goodness elaborated upon soon.
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