In my role as a building administrator, I often find myself working to document my interactions with students and staff in a way that allows me the greatest flexibility and also provides a date and time stamp that makes reviewing and documenting the interactions easy. Recently I have been exploring the use of a Mac OS X application called Quicksilver. Quicksilver has been described as the Swiss Army Knife of productivity applications. At its simplest level it is an application and document launcher that can easily be invoked from the keyboard. For example if you wanted to launch the application Firefox, you would invoke Quicksilver, and begin to type the application name. Quicksilver will quickly find the application, and once highlighted all you need to do is hit the return key and the application launches.

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