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Tutorials
Quickstart Guide - Local wiki-based tutorial.
Quick Tasks
Should tasks be included here?
Offsite Tutorials
Dan Dickinson's Tutorials
- A Better OS X In Just 10 Minutes - The one, the only, the original
- From A Better OS X To Even More - Another one for more advanced Quicksilver usage
- Gold Trigger - A trigger-specific tutorial
43 Folders
- 43 Folders - Quicksilver Posts - A number of in-depth articles about various QS features.
- Quicksilver: Setup & Troubleshooting - Setup info based on B32, note there is no longer a “beta-mode” just advanced features to be enabled.
- Quicksilver: The Comma Trick - screencast on the comma trick
- Quicksilver: Application Menus - screencast showing an easy way to get to application menus with a trigger for Current Application (Show Menu Items). Remember you need Enable Access for Assistive Devices checked in the Universal Access System Preferences as well as the other things mentioned on the page.
The Apple Blog
The Apple Blog has a lot of Quicksilver posts.
- The Apple Blog - Quicksilver Changes Everything - Another good in-depth tutorial.
- Quicksilver & Tiger: Part I - Early description of how Quicksilver differs from Spotlight
- Spotlight Comments using Quicksilver - Using the File Attributes plugin to modify Spotlight Comments
- quicksilver Does Menus Too - Good tips on using the User Interface Access (+) plugin
Apple Blog Screencasts
- Quicksilver for Beginners - 20 mins which walks through some file basics and gives an intro to the preferences, plugins, catalog and guide.
- Full Quicksilver Demo Movie 1 - a demo of selecting a file in the Finder, launching Quicksilver with the selected file loaded, selecting the Email Directly action, and typing the name of the recipient.
- Quicksilver Screencast: Pictures - one of the best demonstrations of Quicksilvers power
- Quicksilver Screencast: The Clipboard - 10 min screencast
- Quicksilver Screencast: Running with Scripts - 5 min screencast on the Extra Scripts plugin
- Quicksilver Catalogs - 10 mins
- Quicksilver In-n-Out - 5 mins, mostly about dragging and dropping to and from QS
- Tags & Playlists - 8.5 mins, using 3rd party scripts to tag and create playlists in iTunes via QS.
- Abracadabra Gestures & Triggers - 4 mins
- The Metadata Screencast: Part Three - 12 mins on the File Tagging module.
- Arrowing - 3.5 mins
- Image Manipulation - 5 mins on the Image Manipulation plugin. Mentioned only in the notes is that it's great with the comma trick.
- Pimp My Quicksilver - 7 minutes on interfaces
Blog Screencasts
- Quicksilver Overview - a pretty good intro in 5 min
- Quicksilver Tutorial Mac OS X - Demo, Installation, Setup in 10 mins. I disagree with the recommendation of installing every plugin. Some are destablizing, only install what you use, you can always add more later.
- Quicksilver Tutorial v2.0 - Very good 7.5 min on manipulating files.
- Quicksilver Tutorial v3.0 - 9 mins on the clipboard and shelf
Lifehacker
- Advanced Quicksilver guide - slashes, appends, and proxies, oh my! - Finder, iTunes, cmd-esc, text append
- The Quicksilver video extravaganza - quick low res videos demoing: Image Manipulation, File Compression, Address Book, email, transmit, Dictionary, web searches, Spotlight, del.icio.us, calculator, and IM.
Others
- Screenshots - Capture, Reformat, Scale and Upload - a quick tutorial from Dwev.com
- Quicksilver: A practical user’s guide - One page tour of many useful features
- Quicksilver - The Wonder App - Lots of trigger ideas