Quicksilver is a launcher utility that costs $0. That’s a price even a law student can love. Using Quicksilver, you can quickly launch applications and open files. That pretty much sums up what I knew about Quicksilver before I tried it. It sounded interesting, but not necessarily worth my time. After all, Spotlight already does a great job finding things, and I’ve never been really excited about “shortcut” tools. In my experience, they usually require a lot of mental overhead (which I have in limited reserves). Remembering keystroke combinations in QuicKeys, for example, seems like you’re trading fast launching for keystroke setup and memorization.
In spite of my misgivings, I gave Quicksilver a try in early spring. It’s a good thing I did, because I’ve been using it ever since.
