This is the neatest app
If you're a Mac user: Quicksilver
Basically, it seems to be a much better version of the finder. It runs in the background and you set a keyboard command to pop it up. Then, once you bring it to the front, you start typing in the name of a file (syllabus) or an application or someone in your address book, and it pops up a menu for you. It works kinda like autofill, so by the time you get to "syl" it pops up a menu with all the files that have "syl" in the, and it seems to learn which things you use most recently/often, so your current syllabi are right on top. Then you use the arrow keys to pick one, or else you tab and then there's a command menu. You can scroll the menu or start typing a command--"open"--and then hit return, and voila.
It'll also bring up your hard drive if you just type "/", and there's a module you can use to look words up, so you type "." and it brings up a text window, you type the word, tab, start typing "define" and hit return, and there's the definition, sitting there. For contacts, it brings up im name, address, phone #, whatever.
There's a clipboard thing that supposedly stores whatever you copy to the clipboard, but it doesn't seem to work right (the thing is in beta). There's also a thing called the "shelf," that you can use to store & launch frequently used things, but I don't really see the point b/c you can type them in so easily.
And, it's free.
Basically, it seems to be a much better version of the finder. It runs in the background and you set a keyboard command to pop it up. Then, once you bring it to the front, you start typing in the name of a file (syllabus) or an application or someone in your address book, and it pops up a menu for you. It works kinda like autofill, so by the time you get to "syl" it pops up a menu with all the files that have "syl" in the, and it seems to learn which things you use most recently/often, so your current syllabi are right on top. Then you use the arrow keys to pick one, or else you tab and then there's a command menu. You can scroll the menu or start typing a command--"open"--and then hit return, and voila.
It'll also bring up your hard drive if you just type "/", and there's a module you can use to look words up, so you type "." and it brings up a text window, you type the word, tab, start typing "define" and hit return, and there's the definition, sitting there. For contacts, it brings up im name, address, phone #, whatever.
There's a clipboard thing that supposedly stores whatever you copy to the clipboard, but it doesn't seem to work right (the thing is in beta). There's also a thing called the "shelf," that you can use to store & launch frequently used things, but I don't really see the point b/c you can type them in so easily.
And, it's free.
