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Quicksilver: Arrow Into Web Pages

Just discovered (yet another) unlighted corner of Quicksilver. As with an earlier set of tricks, this one uses the mighty right arrow.

  1. Invoke Quicksilver (ctrl-spacebar by default)
  2. Type the first few letter of the title of a web page 
  3. When you’ve found the page you want, right-arrow into the page
    • Give it a second to think
    • Quicksilver will return a list of all the links in that web page
  4. Select one of the links and hit ENTER to visit the page.

Qswebarrow_browse

Pretty neat. Uses the built-in HTML kit to fetch an updated version of the page on demand.

I think this requires the Safari Bookmarks module although it appears to work with the Safari History module too. I believe it also probably requires a recent version of the app (available from the QS site). Haven't tried it in a Firefox setup, but I suspect it works the same.

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Merlin Mann is an independent writer, speaker, and broadcaster. He’s best known for being the guy who created the website you’re reading right now. He lives in San Francisco, does lots of public speaking, and helps make cool things like You Look Nice Today, Back to Work, and Kung Fu Grippe. Also? He’s writing this book, he lives with this face, he suffers from this hair, he answers these questions, and he’s had this life. So far.

Merlin’s favorite thing he’s written in the past few years is an essay entitled, “Cranking.”

 
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