Google Desktop For Mac

[bruceb]

One of my ongoing tasks right now is to identify the things that I never do actually use and get them cleared out. I'm aiming for a situation where more and more of the choices I face when I look at bookshelves, closets, kitchen cupboards, or hard drives are choices I know I've liked or have serious plans to try out. Google's OSX desktop search-and

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[mysticalforest]

I never could figure out what advantage Quicksilver had over Spotlight. It's what I use to launch every app even today.

[adamjury]

In 10.4, the default behavior for typing text and then hitting enter in Spotlight was the "Show All" list --in 10.5, it now launches the "best match." So, Quicksilver was more useful in 10.4 than it is in 10.5, as a launcher.

[agrumer]

It depends on what you use it for. Here's some stuff I do a lot in Quicksilver (I've bound ⌘-Space to invoke Quicksilver):

• Launch apps and open documents and folders (⌘-Space, start typing app/doc/folder name, hit Return)
• Google search (⌘-Space, type g twice, hit Tab twice, type search terms, hit Return, result opens in new browser tab)
• Grab info out of my Address Book (⌘-Space, start typing name, Right Arrow, start typing field name, then I can either Display In Large Type or Paste Into Document)
• Do arithmetic (⌘-Space, period, type numbers and symbols, hit Tab, type c, hit Return)

This is all stuff I do pretty much every day. There's more Quicksilver can do that I'm just not in the habit of using it for.

[mysticalforest]

Interesting—Spotlight does all those things now with fewer keystrokes, except for perhaps the Address Book thingy as I don't know how one displays info in large type. Is that an Address Book thing or a Quicksilver thing?

Anyhoo:
Apps = of course ⌘-space, first one or two letters of application name, return
Google = ⌘-space, s, return, tab, search term, return
Names = ⌘-space, first few letters of name depending on how many duplicate names there are, return
Math = ⌘-space, equation (no return needed)

For me myself 'n' I, I'm not seeing a need for me to get it, what with the improvements to Spotlight mentioned upstream and based on your and my descriptions.