Melman Quicksilver User's Guide

As regular readers know, we here at TUAW are huge fans of Quicksilver from Blacktree. The great thing about Quicksilver is how much functionality it puts at your finger tips. Of course the main problem with Quicksilver is how much functionality it puts at your finger tips! Even those of us who having been using it for years regularly find new and interesting things. There's just so much in there (especially with third-party plugins), but the documentation has been, to be frank, somewhat lacking (though it is getting better). Well now Howard Melman has decided to do something about that, releasing this beautifully illustrated 89-page users guide as a free PDF (Creative Commons). Anybody remotely interested in Quicksilver should have a look, and a big TUAW 'attaboy to Mr. Melman!

[Via Lifehacker]

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Source: http://mysite.verizon.net/hmelman/Quicksilver.pdf

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As regular readers know, we here at TUAW are huge fans of Quicksilver from Blacktree. The great thing about Quicksilver is how much...

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Jon Williams

Oh bother, no html in comments:

http://wizardishungry.com/blog/archive/why_i_uninstalled_quicksilver_dashboard_and_spotlight

January 19 2007 at 3:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John Lewis

I never realized how much I've underutilized this product! This thing supports the power user in many ways I never realized. And this doc is really well done.

January 19 2007 at 2:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eray

Excellent guide. very useful. I know its so powerful but I had no idea that it was THIS MUCH powerful. Thanks again for the great guide.

January 19 2007 at 2:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jon Williams

I think the screenshot here sums up my issues with it. That was with a somewhat reduced catalog, somewhat reduced plugin set, fairly fresh after a quicksilver restart. Triggering it would cause a huge amount of thrashing, to the point where using spotlight is faster as an application launcher.

January 19 2007 at 2:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Biffo

Jonathan, QS doesn't suck more RAM than Firefox, iTunes, and Azureus combined on my machine. Nothing like. That would be a lot of RAM. And I mean a LOT. Are you sure your problem isn't elsewhere?

January 19 2007 at 10:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

stainboy

a big THANK YOU to Melman. i've been wanting to play with QS but have been put off by the anemic documentation and overwhelming amount of customizability. this guide will make a QS user out of me yet!

January 19 2007 at 8:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

WinnetouKoslowski

Where is Quicksilver taking too much Ram? I have 3000 - 4000 files in my catalog and it takes 50 MB real and 577 MB virtual Memory. Is this too much?

January 19 2007 at 6:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rob

Excellent guide. I use Quicksilver all the time and am constantly amazed how much else it can do. Thanks.

For Boris: go to Quicksilver Preferences, Command sub-tab (3rd down on the left). The first option is for Hotkey Activation.

January 18 2007 at 10:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mathew

Invoke QS, Preferences -> Command -> Hotkey Activation

January 18 2007 at 10:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Boris Shubinsky

I can't view PDFs at the current moment, but I've had a question that's been lingering for a while.

I set my hotkey to the default (ctrl+space) to bring up QS, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to change it. Anyone know how?

January 18 2007 at 9:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply