queriac blog

This tumblelog is about Queriac, an online tool that allows you to manage your quicksearches, shortcuts, and bookmarklets by taking them out of your browser profile and onto the web, making them portable, taggable, shareable, and generally easier to manage. Drawing from the concept of YubNub and extending it in the spirit of del.icio.us, Queriac effectively turns your browser’s address bar into a flexible command line. To start using Queriac, head over to http://queri.ac.
Jan 21
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New feature: Faster Command Creation

GET parameters can now be passed to Queriac’s create a new command page to auto-populate the form’s fields. The allowed parameters are: name, keyword, url, description, and tags.

Using this new feature I was able to create a new bookmarklet (tentatively keyworded ‘spawn’) that works much like my delicious posting bookmarklet. It grabs the current page’s title, URL, and any text you’ve selected and passes it to the ‘new command’ page! Here’s a use case:

  1. You visit yahoo.com and perform a search.
  2. You get to the results page and think “Hmm.. I should create a Queriac quicksearch for Yahoo.”
  3. In your address bar you type, j spawn y, assuming j is your local bookmarklet enabler’s keyword, and y is what you want your new command’s keyword to be.
  4. You’re directed to Queriac, with the new command page largely filled out for you. Tweak the URL as needed, tag it, and you’re done.
  5. Bask in the niftyness.

That’s all folks!