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Quicksilver wishlist

by Bren on February 18th, 2006

This is probably more of a cry for help than an actual wishlist, but let’s see what happens.

I use the append to/prepend to command a fair bit with QS, but I really wish it would somehow datestamp the entry. Or at least give me an option of datestamping the entry. I can accomplish this on Windows with either ActiveWords or AutoHotKey, so it kinda sticks in my craw that I haven’t figured this out on the Mac yet… Any powerusers want to throw me a bone?

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10 opinions for Quicksilver wishlist

  • joshwa
    Feb 18, 2006 at 10:37 pm

    if you wait til tuesday, I wrote a shell script that does exactly that. It’s on my office computer, though, so that’s why you’ll have to wait.

    Swifter shell-heads that I can cook something up sooner, if they’re so motivated.

  • joshwa
    Feb 18, 2006 at 10:39 pm

    s/that/than

  • Ken
    Feb 18, 2006 at 10:51 pm

    I use Textpander to let me quickly datestamp entries in QS.

  • Bren
    Feb 19, 2006 at 7:54 am

    @Joshwa: Nice! I’ll wait patiently–looking forward to checking out your solution. Never worked with a shell script before…

    @Ken: Yeah, I use Textpander all the time, but I’ve never thought about using it for datestamping text entries. *slaps head* Geez. I’m gonna go play with that now!

  • Bren
    Feb 19, 2006 at 8:11 am

    Hey Ken… I’m not getting Textpander and Quicksilver to play nice together. What’s your trick? I’m using ‘/dts’ to make a date and time stamp. Works fine everywhere else, but doesn’t work in QS…

  • Ken
    Feb 19, 2006 at 8:20 am

    First I hit ‘.’ so I can enter text and then I use ‘dt’ (which I’ve got set for “2006-02-20 01:17:24 - “). The only thing I notice with QS is that sometimes I have to wait a sec longer than usual to get textpander to react.

    Other than that I’m not sure.

  • Bren
    Feb 19, 2006 at 8:43 am

    Thanks…I fiddled with mine and got it working, too. Took out the non-alpha numeric characters in both the trigger and the results and it seems to be doing the trick now.

    I’m also getting what I want by using the AppendNote service, but I need to figure out how to specify or change which file it writes to. The AppendNote service automatically adds the datestamp, but seems to only write to one specific file.

  • Joshwa
    Feb 23, 2006 at 8:14 am

    Here’s what I use:

    #!/bin/sh
    NOW=`date`
    FILE=~/foo.txt
    #echo “$NOW: $*” >>$FILE
    cp $FILE temp1
    echo “$NOW: $*” | cat - temp1 >$FILE
    rm temp1

    change FILE to the one you want to write to…

  • Joshwa
    Feb 23, 2006 at 8:17 am

    haha ignore that commented-out line in the middle there…

    #!/bin/sh
    NOW=`date`
    FILE=~/foo.txt
    cp $FILE temp1
    echo “$NOW: $*” | cat - temp1 >$FILE
    rm temp1

  • Bren
    Feb 23, 2006 at 10:30 am

    Excellent, thanks Joshwa. I’ll give it a try!