Quicksilver plugin for Yojimbo updated: Appending text
The Quicksilver 
plugin for Yojimbo was updated today.
In the absence of any release notes, one can only guess what might have changed. Having to guess like this is part of Quicksilver’s charm generally, so here goes…
It introduced something which is either new or at least new to me: an “Append Text (makes plaintext)” option specific to Yojimbo rather than the generic Text Manipulations action.
This allows you to select an item in Yojimbo and append some plain text to it, for example quickly to add to a list of books that I need to borrow when next at the library:
Obviously, this especially nice for people who use Yojimbo as a hub for “Getting Things Done” (GTD) or for managing a series of plain text to-do lists.
If this feature has been there all the time and I just haven’t seen it, someone will no doubt let me know.
UPDATE: As some readers have noted in the comments, I should have mentioned that you will need to turn the action on in Quicksilver’s preferences. Go to Preferences > Actions and search for “text”. Then check the box to the left of the action in the list. Then refresh. Then enjoy:
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December 5th, 2006 at 7:48 am
Strange.
I have the updated plug in and I dont have the append option…
December 5th, 2006 at 8:23 am
This is cool. One thing though…
As a newbie to Quicksilver, it took me a while to realize that I needed to enable the new action in the Quicksilver preferences/actions.
December 5th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Sorry, Digriz. I should have mentioned that.
December 5th, 2006 at 11:12 am
It might be wise to mention a word of caution about using Quicksilver to directly access Yojimbo’s database. Apparently some people have had problems with this and Bare Bones Software have advised against it on the Yojimbo mailing list:
“Accessing the database in this manner is neither advised nor supported.”
http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso?tab1=search&tab2=detail&skip=7&uid=2479
December 5th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
This version fixes issues with the database, it uses the spotlight caches instead, so shouldn’t have the problems seen in the older ones.
January 6th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Usage note: the order of this action is
Name of your Yojimbo Note -> Append Text -> your new text