Quicksilver Discovery: Mouse Dragged Object Triggers!

April 8, 2007

The thing I love about Quicksilver is that it never stops amazing you with the things it can do. So many times I’m using Quicksilver and I wonder, “wouldn’t it be cool if Quicksilver could do x?” and find that it’s way ahead of me and it can. It was in this way that I discovered the drag and drop abilities well featured in TAB screencast here, which has transformed the way I move files around, especially when attaching things to emails. (QS to it, and drag it into the mail, what could be easier?).

Today’s blog concerns such a discovery. While horribly mistyping the word google (don’t ask me how) I stumbled across a proxy object I had never seen before:

The Discovery

At first I thought to myself, what good is this? But than I realized a wealth of possibilities in trigger creation. Imagine, anything that you frequently do to, well, anything that you can drag, you can make into a trigger that requires you to simply drag it to some corner of your screen! To find out how to do this, read on. Read the rest of this entry »