Tutorials

Below you will find wiki links to tutorials on how to use several useful features of Quicksilver.

For a full, in-depth Quicksilver Guide, Howard Helman has written a brilliant Manual which can be downloaded here.

Videos: If you use Flash, play the video, select 720p HD (if available), and then press full screen. (It makes the videos far easier to read.)
The arrows next to links indicate external links. Note: some of these are for very old versions of quicksilver and might be out of date.

Tips & Tricks

• Tip of The Day from @LoveQuicksilver on Twitter.

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Quicksilver

• Quicksilver Screencast: The Setup
• Quicksilver Tutorial Mac OS X - Demo, Installation, Setup in 10 mins.
• Quicksilver Tutorial v2.0 - Very good 7.5 min on manipulating files.
• Comma Trick
• Quicksilver Screencast: Pictures - one of the best demonstrations of Quicksilvers power
• Quicksilver In-n-Out - 5 mins, mostly about dragging and dropping to and from QS
• Arrowing - 3.5 mins

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Preferences

• Executing actions

• Ordering actions

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Triggers

• Abracadabra Gestures & Triggers - 4 mins

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Catalog

• Quicksilver Catalogs - 10 mins

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Plugins

• Abracadabra Module
• Clipboard Module
• Extra Scripts
• File Tagging Module (+)
• iCal Module (+)
• Remember The Milk
• Shelf Module
• Unit Conversion Module
• User Interface Access (+)

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Scripts

• Tags & Playlists - 8.5 mins, using 3rd party scripts to tag and create playlists in iTunes via QS.

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Grouped by Publisher

Dan Dickinson's Tutorials

• A Better OS X In Just 10 Minutes - The one, the only, the original
• From A Better OS X To Even More - Another one for more advanced Quicksilver usage
• Gold Trigger - A trigger-specific tutorial

The Apple Blog

• The Apple Blog - Quicksilver Changes Everything - Another good in-depth tutorial
• Spotlight Comments using Quicksilver - Using the File Attributes plugin to modify Spotlight Comments
• Quicksilver Does Menus Too - Good tips on using the User Interface Access (+) plugin

Apple Blog Screencasts

• Full Quicksilver Demo Movie 1 - a demo of selecting a file in the Finder, launching Quicksilver with the selected file loaded, selecting the Email Directly action, and typing the name of the recipient.
• Quicksilver Screencast: The Setup - Don't install the Airport Module in ß58, it'll crash and burn. Flickr upload is broken too.
• Quicksilver Screencast: Pictures - one of the best demonstrations of Quicksilvers power, although Flickr upload is currently broken.
• Quicksilver Screencast: The Clipboard - 10 min screencast
• Quicksilver Screencast: Running with Scripts - 5 min screencast on the Extra Scripts plugin
• Quicksilver Catalogs - 10 mins
• Quicksilver In-n-Out - 5 mins, mostly about dragging and dropping to and from QS
• Tags & Playlists - 8.5 mins, using 3rd party scripts to tag and create playlists in iTunes via QS.
• Abracadabra Gestures & Triggers - 4 mins
• The Metadata Screencast: Part Three - 12 mins on the File Tagging module.
• Arrowing - 3.5 mins

Insert Title Blog Screencasts

• Quicksilver Tutorial Mac OS X - Demo, Installation, Setup in 10 mins. I disagree with the recommendation of installing every plugin. Some are destablizing, only install what you use, you can always add more later.
• Quicksilver Tutorial v2.0 - Very good 7.5 min on manipulating files.

Non-English tutorials

Català

• Introducció, demostració del gran potencial de Quicksilver
• Instal·lació i funcions bàsiques

Español

• Introducción -no descargar la aplicación de blacktree sinó de http://qsapp.com/download.php
• Menús de la aplicación
• Abracadabra, trigger de ratón
• Interfaces o skins del programa
• Eventos en Google Calendar
• Redimensionar imágenes
• Crear avisos visuales
• Mover archivos a carpetas
• Enviar archivos adjuntos por mail
• Twittea de forma sencilla