Using Spotlight Saved Searches In QuickSilver

One of my favorite QuickSilver triggers is my TextMate Project launcher. I spend most of the day in one of several TextMate projects, so the first thing I do when I get to my computer is launch one of them.

⇧⎇ + T gets me this:

I select the project I want to launch, and I’m on my way.

First create a saved spotlight search. Open up a finder window, and type a search into the search box to get additional search criteria, and save the search after you’ve filled in the criteria you want. My search looked like this:

You might have to restart QuickSilver in order to get that saved search to show up, but after you do you should be able to type in the name of that saved search in QuickSilver to retrieve it. Now you just need to create a trigger to pull that up, and you’ll be all set.

Select Triggers under the QuickSilver menu, and add a new HotKey command. Mine looks like this:

Save it, assign the shortcut you want to it, and you’ll be launching documents in fewer clicks than before.