default quick entry keystroke is already assigned to spotlight
 

Hi,

It's strange if this hasn't been commented, but I searched the forums without finding anything.

I am just getting started with OF after having tried a paper-based GTD approach for a little while (didn't quite work out). One of the first things I noticed was that when I made a quick entry, a spotlight window popped up as well. Turns out the default quick entry keystroke is already assigned to spotlight by OSX. This should be fixed, no? Seems a rather unnecessary nuisance to me...

I reassigned quick entry to shift+space, but this might not have been so good a choice, as I have had the quick entry window pop up twice while writing this text. Which keyboard shortcut do you prefer?

I use option command space since I use quick entry a whole lot more than I do spotlight. If you have a conflict you can re-assign spotlight shortcut in the system preferences , go to keyboard and mouse and then " keyboard shortcuts " you can make it anything you want it to be [as long as it's not already used ]

What was wrong with the default keyboard shortcut of "control+option+space"?

That's what I use. And it's NOT the keyboard shortcut assigned to Spotlight.

The 2 keyboard shortcuts assigned to Spotlight are "command+space" (which pulls up the generic Spotlight search) and "command+option+space" (which pulls up the fiter-able Spotlight search window), neither of which are the default for quick entry for OF.

In my OS, ctrl+option+space was assigned to "Show Spotlight window". I'm running a Norwegian OSX 10.5.4. Maybe this spotlight shortcut is language specific?

[QUOTE=ext555;47744]I use option command space since I use quick entry a whole lot more than I do spotlight. If you have a conflict you can re-assign spotlight shortcut in the system preferences , go to keyboard and mouse and then " keyboard shortcuts " you can make it anything you want it to be [as long as it's not already used ][/QUOTE]

Agreed.

[QUOTE]In my OS, ctrl+option+space was assigned to "Show Spotlight window". I'm running a Norwegian OSX 10.5.4. Maybe this spotlight shortcut is language specific?[/QUOTE]

Yes, it does appear that your spotlight is language specific. Or you reassigned your spotlight keyborad shortcut at some time in the past.