On Aug 29, 2014, at 7:28 AM, Augustya K <[email protected]> wrote: > I am new to Quicksilver, I just recently came across quite a few > recommendations from various websites and reviews mentioned there on this > interesting APP. Though I have some initial idea on what Alfred does. Still I > am not able to figure out or understand how is it gonna be different from the > MAC OS X "Spotlight" because even Spotlight seems to be doing very much the > same thing Already that Quicksilver promises to do, so how is Quicksilver > different and what does it do more than what MAC OS X Spotlight does not do ? > As a first time user, I am just trying to understand how can this APP help me > ? Does anyone here maybe the Admin, Moderators or the Founder of this APP do > you guys have like a comparison sheet between what the MAC OS X Spotlight > does and what does Quicksilver do in addition to that ? Also if you guys have > any video showing the remarkable features of Quicksilver it would be more > easier to understand.
Six years ago (!) I wrote this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/blacktree-quicksilver/XN3-QKw_frE I tried writing it in the intro to the manual, but I don't think it works very well. Still, flipping through the manual might help. http://qsapp.com/docs/Quicksilver.pdf [updated link] Here is a list of tutorials, some text w/ screenshots, others are video. Some are for older versions but the concepts still apply if not the exact methods (the manual above is the most up-to-date description). http://qsapp.com/wiki/Tutorials [updated link] This is my favorite demonstration of the power of QS: http://theappleblog.com/2006/05/02/quicksilver-screencast-pictures/ Even going through these things, it took me about a week before I really "got" Quicksilver, and I think that's pretty common. And then it took months of writing the manual to understand all the nooks and crannies. You can start off small and add to your knowledge slowly. The really power (and difference with Spotlight) is that there are multiple actions you can choose from, not just "open". The part that's hard to describe is this. On a mac today you do a lot of different things and go to different programs to do them (e.g., safari for browsing, Mail for email, iChat for IM, Address Book for contacts, etc.) Even though the Mac is pretty consistent, these are all different applications and depending on what you want to do, you do different things, click in different places, use different hotkeys, etc. Now imagine using spotlight a lot. You'd activate spotlight, type the name of the thing you wanted to work and hit return to open it in that app. Maybe it's a bookmark that opens in safari or a contact that opens in Address Book or a mail message that opens in mail or a song that plays in iTunes. Once you do this, you use that app to do stuff. With Quicksilver's you have a consistent interface like with spotlight but with QS's actions you can get to the next step and often that's enough for the whole task. I can send a file to someone from QS alone, it will use mail and finder and address book to do the work in the background but I just used QS. I can control iTunes with keystrokes to go to the next song or pause or mute, from QS without leaving the task I'm working on. I can move or copy files without having to manipulate finder windows or dragging and dropping. I can do a google search (or imdb or wikipedia) from within Quicksilver and have the results show in the browser. All this (and more) makes Quicksilver a consistent interface for my mac and that has some psychological effect that makes things seem even easier than QS is making them. QS is my mac to me. and that's hard to describe to someone who hasn't played with it. Howard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
