QuickPack: Quicksilver plus Backpack

Author Nils Werkmeister (great name!) writes in to tell us about his QuickPack, a Quicksilver Action that makes it very easy to add entries to a page on 37Signals' Backpack online organizational tool. We've mentioned a number of Backpack tools in the past, including various widgets and Packrat, but Nils' solution has the nearly insuperable advantage of integrating so well with TUAW's favorite utility: Quicksilver. After entering text mode in Quicksilver (generally with a period) you're able quickly to insert calendar entries, ToDos, notes, and reminders to any of your Backpack pages by prefixing your entry with one of the various supported tags (e.g. "+todo" and "+note"; see the QuickPack page for full details). Once you select the QuickPack action it will bring up another dialog box asking on which page you want your new entry placed.



Select your page, hit enter, and you're done. It'll even give you a Growl notification that your new entry was successfully uploaded.

QuickPack is a free download from LittleAppleScripts, though donations are requested. Once downloaded, copy it to ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions (create the "Actions" folder if it's not already there), restart Quicksilver and you should be good to go. The first time you run it you'll also need to supply your Backpack API key which is found on your Backpack Account page.
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