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30 Nov 2005
I'm constantly amazed by how Quicksilver becomes an unconscious part of your interaction with a computer. Take today, for example. I had to send some information by internal mail to one of the administrators in our department. I had a one of those all-too-frequent mental blackouts, and could remember her first name but not her surname. Without even thinking, I turned to my keyboard, hit Cmd-space to activate Quicksilver, typed the first few letters of her name, looked at the result (her card in Address Book), and thought "Oh, yes, that's it". I hit escape to dismiss the result (since I didn't actually need to open her card in Address Book) and turned back to the envelope to address it.
It was only while I was writing that I realised how easy it all was. Now if I could only activate the same sequence in my head when talking to people in person so that I could remember their names, I'd be a happy person.
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Oh yeah, been there, I've caught myself hitting CTRL-space on a Windows box... pausing a few microseconds while my brain catches up ... then cursing profoundly at having to go and look for something.
Quicksilver is my precious 
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I love it too. The trouble is, I'm afraid it may be rotting my brain cells. I find more and more often that people ask me something and I'm saying I've got it written down (or in the computer) somewhere, and consequently I haven't even bothered to try and actually remember it.
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uhhhhhm.. Now you have a shiny new mac you can perhaps tell me how Quicksilver is better than spotlight?
I've not used it but spotlight seems to do exactly the same thing and is already integrated into Tiger...
by Snesgirl @ 09/12/2005 11:13 am • Permalink •
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Too true! When I'm logged into my Lectures account (which I created so as not to inadvertently expose any of my nefarious deeds while giving a lecture to my students), I don't have access to the information that QS typically indexes. Without it, I feel totally useless.
I've even found myself trying to hit Ctrl-Space on Windows machines, in the vain hope that the contents of my head (which QS has absconded with) will miraculously appear.
In our halcyon futures, with our nano-tech altered brains, I want QS to appear in my visual field every time I think "Command-Space."
Or "Make it so." I can't decide which.----- Ed: Ooo, a Lectures account---there's a good idea... Not that I have anything to hide, of course. I'm right with you on the nano-tech altered brains front. Provided that I could have Patrick Stewart's voice saying "Make it so", I'd go for that option.
by bsag @ 30/11/2005 10:12 pm • Permalink •