Comments on: Spotlight Comments using Quicksilver

By: Manos

Manos — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:18:12 +0000

Hey… Somehow I cannot find how to set an hotkey in Quicksilver, e.g. for label red. I can select a file, open QS, actions label, color red. But how would I assign a hotkey, can anybody help, pleeeease? Thanks :)

By: rob

rob — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:30:34 +0000

For me, Spotlight Comments represent a way to tag my files a la Flickr, del.icio.us, etc. This is immensely more useful for me than the default full text indexing that Spotlight offers…

how do you get flickr to recognize your spotlight comments???

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:27:34 +0000

I used to use Spotlight all the time and could never get into Quicksilver. It wasn’t until I read some of the tutorials that I realised what was possible in Quicksilver. I now have some nice little hot-keys set up. The ones that are particularly useful are the folders I open regularly.

Plus the iTunes control means I can get rid of SizzlingKeys.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:46:03 +0000

Again me: For those having problems finding the “set comment”-Action: You need to have the plugin “file attributes” installed and actived.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:39:14 +0000

You can even be quicker by select the file in finder and press CTRL+ESC – and there should be the file seleced in QS.

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:26:45 +0000

If you have enabled the proxy objects plugin, then there should be a built-in trigger for “Command window with Selection” – just set a hotkey (I use command-esc.)

This saves you the trouble of invoking qs and then hitting command-g. Just hit command-esc (which invokes qs with your selection in the first pane, and automatically selects the second pane so you can type your action), type sc (you may set this as default for set comments), tab, then your comment.

More efficient.

There is also a specific tagging plug-in now, which will allow you to set, view and delete tags for files. Unlike “set comment”, each tag is preceeded by a “@”, and can be manipulated individually.

By: Stephen WG Sullivan

Stephen WG Sullivan — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:16:10 +0000

I wanted to add that the quickest way I know to Set Comments for the contents of an entire folder, is to select all of those files inside the folder before going to quicksilver, then command-g in QS, then Set Comments.

The other option would be using “the comma trick” in Quicksilver to select multiple files, but depending on how many files are in the folder, this may not be a practical solution.

By: yusuf

yusuf — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:47:10 +0000

a google search brought me here and i just thought i’d add: rather than keying down to the “set comments” function (or any other function) you can just type “set comments.” makes my life easier, at least.

By: dekay

dekay — Wed, 18 May 2005 19:46:53 +0000

Noah, you would have to write an Automator-Script or just a plain AppleScript that recursively does tagging on all files in a folder and then call that from QuickSilver.

Personally I have just killed Spotlight as I was no longer able to play iTunes without getting stutters because mds was indexing my drive, again, and sucking all processor power out of my ibook. sucks definitely.

By: Jamie Kirkpatrick

Jamie Kirkpatrick — Wed, 18 May 2005 07:21:14 +0000

It seems that many of us are hot on this buzz (personally I saw the light following my read of the mamoth 20 page Tiger review on Ars)... Anyway...this seems like a really good idea. Whilst I can code in Cocoa, this isn't as easy as all that since contextual menu plugins are not availble from any Cocoa API and you have to resort to some rather antiquated Carbon code. If any one is up for the challenge I will gladly lend a hand; Perhaps we could also talk to the QS developers and see if they are interested in making a module (rather than a plugin) that can do this stuff?