I actually didn't understand a word of that!

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Well let me see if I can help elaborate real quick:

Quicksilver is what some call an 'application launcher.' It works a lot like Spotlight - it lets you find files, folders, applications, etc., but then, unlike Spotlight, it lets you chose what you want to do with them.

Yojimbo is a new app from BareBones Software that is basically a 'digital junk drawer.' It lets you easily store web pages, bookmarks, serials, site passwords, text snippets, etc., so you can easily organize and search these things. It's great for doing research and keeping your 'digital stuff' organized instead of just lying around in a bunch of Finder folders, amongst many other things.

Well this Yojimbo plugin for Quicksilver letes you enter a piece of text or a URL into it, and then automatically send that text or archive that website into Yojimbo, without ever having to open a browser window or directly work in Yojimbo, all from a Spotlight-ish type of interface. If you can get used to the concepts and using these tools, this can do absolute wonders for your productivity.

If you're still curious, Quicksilver is here, and I urge you to check out their documentation for help on grasping how the app works:

http://quicksilver.blacktree.com

and Yojimbo is at BareBones Software:

http://barebones.com

Hope this helps!

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That's what's kept me off Quicksilver...it's got a phenominal learning curve. What I hate most about QS is its fans, mormon-like legions of people who try to tell you it's the path to true enlightenment. Yet they can't quite explain it, telling you to, "check out their documentation for help on grasping how the app works". I am waiting for the one, true definitive Quicksilver tutorial.

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The problem is that Quicksilver can do so many things. If you're waiting for a tutorial that covers everything it can do, you'll be waiting for an extremely long time since new functionality is found for it quite often. There are several tutorials on the Quicksilver website that do quite a good job with some of the basic and non-basic functions.

By waiting, you're missing out on an excellent app and serious time-saving measures. Even if you use it as a basic launcher, you'll quickly come to love it.

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To get an idea of what launchers could do for you, check out this excellent screencast about LaunchBar (warning: direct link to video file, sorry, couldn't find a page to link to). It goes over the basics of LB and you can get a starter of an idea about what QS does as well by proxy. Of course, QS is much more full-featured, but that will get you started.

Speaking of scripts and URLs, I just posted some scripts for Pukka in the event that you use it for URL management instead of Yojimbo. Same idea -- send a URL from a browser to Pukka.

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Apparently inline links do not work.

LaunchBar screencast: http://media.libsyn.com/media/donmc/macTV004_-_Launchbar_Utility_Review_H264.mov

Pukka scripts: http://codesorcery.net/2006/06/14/pukka-and-applescript/

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Quicksilver does not have an unreasonably large learning curve. Once you understand the basics of how to interact with it, everything else logically falls into place. I can open any application, run shell scripts, search websites, interact with iTunes, etc: all those operations individually take literally less than two seconds to set in motion with Quicksilver. And those are just the basics...

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A very old, but basic tutorial/overview of QuickSilver:
http://vjarmy.com/archives/2004/03/quicksilver_a_b.php

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