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<p>If you are trigger happy with <a href="http://quicksilver.blacktree.com">Quicksilver,</a>, no doubt you have started to run out of key combinations that aren&#8217;t painful to execute.</p>

<p>In this screenshot, you&#8217;ll notice that I have three triggers with the same key combination. How can that be?<br />

<p>I ran into a setting I hadn&#8217;t noticed before. (How unusual to <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/18/melman-quicksilver-users-guide/">discover</a> <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2006/08/15/unit-conversion-plugin-for-quicksilver/">something</a> <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2006/06/13/yojimbo-plugin-for-quicksilver-or-my-heart-just-skipped-a-beat/">new</a> with QS!) In the bottom right of the Triggers pane, there is a Show Info button. Click it to get the info drawer.</p>

<p>On the right, you should see a tab labeled &#8220;scope&#8221;. This isn&#8217;t mouthwash, kids. Click it and you should be presented with something that looks like this:<br />

<p>Here, you can set which applications you want to use your trigger! So, as is evident, this trigger activates a script called OmniWeb2YojimboToRead. (You can download the same script <a href="http://www.jamiephelps.com/13/safari-to-yojimbo-to-read">here.</a>) So, it makes sense that this only be available to OmniWeb, otherwise I&#8217;ll have wasted a key combo. The cost-benefit of that option isn&#8217;t hard to figure.</p>

<p>So, there you have it. The other advantage of this is that I use the same key combination for all of my triggers that get things into Yojimbo. As a result, I don&#8217;t think, &#8220;What was that trigger to get this web page into Yojimbo?&#8221; I just <a href="http://pages.citebite.com/u1b5x2t0w1wfg">act without doing.</a></p>

<p>Bonus hint: As you start developing more triggers that essentially do the same thing, it&#8217;s helpful to put them in groups in the Triggers pane of Quicksilver as I have done with my Yojimbo Incoming group.</p>

<p>Auspicious Observation: There is also the ability to set scope of trigger groups as well, which I&#8217;m sure could prove extremely useful.</p>

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