Quicksilver

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Quicksilver reviews and mentions

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  • The Largest Money-Printing Element Ever Made
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2023
    Pretty sure it was Nicholas Jitkoff[1] and his team. He had done Quicksilver[2] a few years back which popularized this single input interface for osx desktop.

    [1] https://nicholas.jitkoff.com/

    [2] https://qsapp.com/

  • Should I worry about using Raycast on MacOS?
    4 projects | /r/privacy | 25 Apr 2023
    There are these open source alternatives, I haven’t checked their privacy policies or their code Maybe try and report back? https://www.cerebroapp.com https://qsapp.com https://ueli.app https://github.com/ParthJadhav/Verve
  • Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2023
    I've used Quicksilver for clipboard history historically. There is a currently a bug that I've been meaning to delve into: https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/issues/2913 but still generally usable. Particularly handy combined with adding simple AppleScript or JXA actions to manipulate the content (I have several simple ones for example to run a regex, to clean extraneous content around a number, a phone number, strip whitespace, indent 4 spaces for pasting into a markdown codeblock on SO, etc etc).

    The Shelf plug-in also very handy along similar lines.

  • The best Mac Apps to unlock your max potential (recommended by users of r/MacOs )
    13 projects | /r/MacOS | 22 Mar 2023
    Should add Quicksilver. It's the first app I install on my Macs
  • Boomer Wants to Learn Mac
    11 projects | /r/MacOS | 11 Mar 2023
    Spotlight-esque apps for enhanced keyboard driven productivity (pick one): Raycast Alfred Quicksilver
  • Why is Spotlight garbage these days?
    1 project | /r/apple | 19 Feb 2023
    Quicksilver
  • Resolving the Great Undo-Redo Quandary
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Nov 2022
    For a browsable clipboard history on macOS, I recommend LaunchBar (https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/; docs at https://www.obdev.at/resources/launchbar/help/ClipboardHisto...). I used to use the Clipboard Plugin of the free and open source app Quicksilver (https://qsapp.com/), which worked fine but was slightly less streamlined. Some people prefer Alfred (https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/).
  • Shortcat – Manipulate macOS masterfully, minus the mouse
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2022
    This is great. Reminds me of QuickSilver[1]. I'm evaluating HomeRow[2] for a VIM driving the Mac OS, will try this as well.

    I love how:

    a. accessibility features are making the OS more accessible for everyone through automation

    b. good the accessibility implementation is on the Mac that most applications are inherently compatible with solutions like this.

    [1]: https://qsapp.com/

    [2]: https://www.homerow.app/

  • Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2022
    Good to see something like this, don't forget there is already an open source alternative (pre-existing) for Alfred and Raycast. It's called Quicksilver - https://qsapp.com
  • Albert – open-source keyboard launcher for Linux
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jun 2022
    Kupfer (gnome) - https://kupferlauncher.github.io

    Quicksilver (macos): https://qsapp.com/

    I still find myself using these and enjoy the 'wei wu wei' flow of them: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4LkTstvUL4 (skip to 5 or 11 minutes in)

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