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The ultimate Quicksilver Thread

Let's make this the The ultimate Quicksilver Thread. But I really think a own Category would suit our needs alittle bit better. Merlin? Is this Board supporting Subcategories?

Let's start with Websearches through QS: I don't get why i have to select the search action before I can use the variable input field? It's just confusing. My Question is: how can I arrange the various search Targets like I can arrange e.g. the Mail actions?

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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Merlin, I agree with a separate...

Merlin,

I agree with a separate folder for QS. The QS forum on blacktree is probably a bit complicated for most casual users of QS (including myself).

Stangster,

I actually use OmniWeb, which has a built-in Sogudi-like capability so do not have the Sogudi plug-in installed for QS, but I tried typing wiki and it worked. (likewise for VT for version tracker). I am not sure if that is the OmniWeb plug-in that I have installed or some other feature of QS.

pooks,

I'm not sure what you mean by "do .txt", but if you mean how to create them - there are several ways. You can actually save one of your word documents as a .txt file by going to the "Save As..." command under the file menu (there are several .txt options). More easily, you can use the application Text Edit which is bundled with Mac OS X. I personally use Text Wrangler, which is the freeware version of the popular BBEdit - I like it because it can display all my open text files in a tabbed window.

From there, you can start to get more advanced with your text files, see this post:
http://www.43folders.com/2005/12/12/text-setup/

The whole relevance to QS of course being the ability to append a text file. For figuring out how to do that, read this article:
http://www.43folders.com/2005/11/21/qs-redux/

hope that helps.

 
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