a timocracy of one

Apparently, I’m behind the times on trying Quicksilver. If you are on a Mac I definitely recommend downloading it giving it a full try. At first I thought it seemed sort of like a waste of time – I’ve never bothered learning the ins and outs of the various alternative launchers available for the Mac.

But once I actually read through the docs, fine-tuned my “catalogs” of verbs and nouns and gave it the ole college try, it blew me away. Quicksilver leverages the GUI to make the full effeciency of an experienced command line guru available to all, and extends such functionality far beyond the terminal. It’s tab completion for the GUI age.

This may not seem like much, to the uninitiated, but I just added a todo to my backpack page to blog about this with the following keystrokes (actually less than this, but I’ll complete the full words for clarity):

CTRL-SPACEBAR
todo>>
* No, really blog about QS + Backpack
TAB
Email To
TAB
Blog
ENTER

We’re not mousing around, here, folks.