Posted on November 9th, 2005 by Kevin Dangoor

Kinkless GTD now even smoother with Quicksilver

I’ve been a Quicksilver fan for a while now, and I’m a recent convert to Kinkless GTD which uses OmniOutliner to implement the Getting Things Done style of, well, getting things done. This morning, I updated to the latest version and learned about a new feature: you can add new items to your KGTD inbox via Quicksilver!

If you’ve never used Quicksilver, it’s hard to imagine how speedy it can make things. With this Quicksilver action, as soon as something pops into my head I can just hit control-space, “.”, type in the thing that I need to remember for later, tab, kg, enter. It’s amazingly quick and unobtrusive and lets me store everything away so that I can process it later, GTD-style.

By the way, for the Python folks reading this, Quicksilver actions can be written in Python!

I’ll repeat my earlier calls: if you happen to know of something like Quicksilver for Windows (and you’d really only know if you’ve tried Quicksilver on a Mac), let me know. It’s painful to not have it whenever I’m using my Windows machine.

8 Responses to “Kinkless GTD now even smoother with Quicksilver”

s on November 9th, 2005 4:26 pm:

“I’ll repeat my earlier calls: if you happen to know of something like Quicksilver for Windows (and you’d really only know if you’ve tried Quicksilver on a Mac), let me know. It’s painful to not have it whenever I’m using my Windows machine.”

Hmm…sound like a product idea to me :)

Lee Joramo on November 9th, 2005 8:44 pm:

I am a long time LaunchBar user myself (although, I keep an eye on Quicksilver). I was just searching for a Windows version of LaunchBar. I googled “launchbar for windows” and found a variety of links to AppRocket http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/

I haven’t installed it yet. So I can’t sing its praises, but it looks like an exact knockoff of LaunchBar

Bill Brown on November 9th, 2005 11:08 pm:

I have to say they’re shadows of Quicksilver, but here’s two:

SlickRun

ActiveWords

tazzzzz on November 10th, 2005 12:02 am:

Yeah, those are all similar in some ways to quicksilver, but “shadows of quicksilver” is a good description.

Stefano J Attardi on November 10th, 2005 3:24 pm:

AppRocket is nice, I use it all the time and I feel naked without it. It can effectively replace the Start Menu and Windows Explorer and can even functon as a simple desktop search if you let it index big parts of your hard disk. You just have to be careful how you configure it cause it can eat up a lot of memory.

However, as Lee said, it’s more like LaunchBar, not Quicksilver. From what I’ve heard from my Mac friends, Quicksilver is much more powerful.

susan on November 18th, 2005 5:46 am:

quicksilver for windows – check out “PC-COM”

My hands rarely touch the mouse!

http://www.boletrice.com

susan on November 18th, 2005 5:51 am:

I should add – PCcom is far more powerful than AppsRocket!

It is not a resources hog, can be custom configured to do just about anything.

I have never used quicksilver, but others who have say this is fairly close & even has some features beyond quicksilver.

TimKimrey on March 28th, 2006 11:02 am:

I know that this reply is somewhat dated, but Windows has a similar feature built in (I acutally looked for Quicksilver originally to duplicate the “Windows Key + R” feature which opens the “run” dialog. In that window you can type most program names and file names. Granted Quicksilver is far superior, but it’s a start.