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Stikkit Quicksilver Plugin

I think my life has just changed.  My personal data manager of choice, Stikkit, Stikkit in Quicksilverhas had a plugin released so that it works with the best task launcher ever conceived, Quicksilver.  If you head into your Quicksilver preference pane, you can now add a Stikkit plugin which allows you to add and amend Stikkits as well as accessing your current Stikkits.  Have a look at this post over a The Unofficial Apple Weblog which will run you through the setup process.  This is really how things should work, the integration between Stikkit and Quicksilver is pretty seemless and having access to all my Stikkits right there on my desktop, and then being able to use them in the ways Quicksilver allows, is a revelation.

I’ve posted about Stikkit before and praised the way in which it uses natural text as an input mechanism.  This remains extant when using Quicksilver.  I’m convinced this is the future.  So long as there are great desktop applications out there, Quicksilver being one of them, many people will find it hard give them up.  Likewise, which web apps are as easy to use as Stikkit, many people will want to start using it.  This is the perfect balance.  One of the things I like about Stikkit is that I can just type information in there and Stikkit sorts it all out for me, tagging it and setting up reminders and generally acting like my mother (i.e. picking my socks up, doing my laundry etc.).  With the amount of time it takes for me to create a Stikkit greatly reduced, its become my go to app for pretty much everything.  A word of warning though, occasionally you will need something a bot more structured.  For me, Stikkit works great as a place to hold to-dos, meeting minutes, general notes and such like.  I back it up with a more formal and structured application for when its required.  My personal choice for this is Active Collab, which you’ll need to host yourself, but provides a very usable solution.  That may come as a shock to many of you as I was a long time proponent of the 37 signals application Basecamp.  unfortunately, it just doens’t seem to be moving in the same direction as me, which is a shame.  I’ll cover this at a later date, as it seems to be happening with a few of my old favourite we applications.

This post was written on Wednesday, April 11th 2007 by Simon T and has been categorised under News , Technology. The trackback URL is here or you could add a response. If you really want to you can Digg Story or add it to del.icio.us, Technorati Cosmos, Blinklist, furl or Reddit.

One Response to “Stikkit Quicksilver Plugin”

  1. Maris Says:

    June 4th, 2007 at 4:44 pm

    I have used Stikkit some time ago, but I stopped because I think it needs to have more synchronization options.

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