Filed under: World wide web, Productivity, Search
chosr is a web based bookmarking and productivity tool. It uses a Quicksilver type interface and apparently, if you’re a Quicksilver user it’s very intuitive. If, like me, you’re not, it takes a tiny bit to get the hang of the interface. (More about Quicksilver).
The idea is that basic keystrokes move you through a three panel screen. So if I want to search for Download Squad in the first box I would use the period key to open my text entering mode and type in Download Squad. I would then press the tab key to move to the next window where I would again press the period key to enter text. You can type in various search methods like Google, wikipedia, YouTube, etc. Tab over to the third square and the default for searching “in new window” will probably already be there. Press enter and a new window with your search results will open.
Want to bookmark it in your chosr file? Copy the url, paste into the first box, after hitting the period, tab to the second box and type bookmark and you will be ready to go. Then you can bookmark all your daily sites, tab through them and basically eliminate your mouse for some things.
I have not used Quicksilver before so it seemed very awkward to me. For example at one point I got to a list where one of the options was to change the background. I was happy about that since the normal background is rather ugly. I couldn’t get the right combination in the right boxes to actually make it work though, which was frustrating.
If you’re a regular user of Quicksilver and you care about it, you should definitely check out chosr. If you’re looking to use your keyboard more and have a few minutes to play with it, then check it out. And if you can change the background, let me know how!
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