More Trigger Ideas¶

The possibilities for triggers seem endless. Here are some triggers people have posted on the Quicksilver forums as their favorites:

• Documents ⇥ Open
• Finder Selection ⇥ Go To Directory in Terminal
• Finder Selection ⇥ Rename…
• Finder Selection ⇥ Scale Image… ⇥ 400
• Finder Selection ⇥ Open With… ⇥ TextMate
• Current Application ⇥ Menu Bar…
• Current Application ⇥ Menu Bar Items…
• Current Application ⇥ Show Menu Items
• Current Application ⇥ Relaunch
• Current Application ⇥ Hide Others (though ⌥⌘H already works in most every application)
• Previous Application ⇥ Open (go back to what you were doing last, toggle between two apps, or restore focus if Quicksilver steals it)
• Artist Now Playing ⇥ Show Contents
• Browse Albums ⇥ Search Contents
• killall Dock ⇥ Run Command in Shell (or any other frequent shell command)
• pbpaste | pbcopy ⇥ Run Command in Shell (re-copies the clipboard contents without formatting)
• date ⇥ Run Command in Shell (acts like a clock)
• Current Web Page ⇥ Open With… ⇥ [Some Web Browser]
• Removable Disks ⇥ Eject (great to clean up mounted disk images)
• Network Disks ⇥ Eject

There are some limits to triggers that you can create. You can’t save a trigger for something that isn’t in your catalog. So the Current Application ⇥ Menu Bar… trigger above works, but you can’t do Current Application ⇥ Menu Bar… ⇥ Help because the “Help” item is created on demand. Also, actions that appear only for particular applications can’t be saved as triggers, so you can’t do Mail (Get New Mail). For most of these, you can physically create the trigger, but the objects involved will disappear when Quicksilver restarts, making it impossible to set up the trigger again.