I cleaned up command creation so there’s no need to prepend scripts and macros with a protocol-like keyword. Now to create a macro you can simply type:

new macro [macroname] [commands]

The same goes for script. Making “macro” and “script” sub-commands of new seemed like the most natural way to think of it.

I also added cascading parameters so a command can fall back on multiple forms of input when one doesn’t exist. For example:

new g http://www.google.com/search?q={$0|clip|prompt}

This will first look for a additional parameters after typing “g” and if none are found will check the clipboard for text data before straight out prompting for a search term. Using the pipe “|” you can string together these keywords in any order.

Lastly I added a special cliptext command ” {SLEEP n}” to pause the sending of keys for a set amount of milliseconds.

On the list so far for 0.4 is multi-tweeting, regular expression search & replacing, simple reminders & timers and extra help/command reference screens.

cheatsheetheap.com

Another exciting development from the basement at PivotLabs! Cheatsheets, cheatsheets, cheatsheets. Boy I love cheatsheets. Now I can finally free up my brain and flush out all my rote learning!

One thing that has bugged me are that cheatsheets are commonly created with no easy way to update them and redistribute them. Most authors keep the source files and release only a fixed bitmap or postscript file along with a restrictive license. I wanted to change this.

Cheatsheetheap.com is a project I started to provide a central place to share and encourage user edits to cheatsheets. It’s a repository of cheatsheets built using open source tools such as Gimp, Inkscape and Open Office.