I love YubNub. I use it as my default “search” plugin in every browser that I have. I use it instead of having keywords setup for bookmarks. Not only does it mean that when I switch browsers or computers the experience is the same but also many shortcuts are already created and you can use them with ease to increase efficiency of searching and surfing.

What is YubNub? Know the answer? Skip on.

YubNub is the social command line of the web. It is a database of commands created by users by which you can go to websites, search websites and a whole load of other things. By learning a few commands you can soon do things quicker on the web.

Commands I use

I used to have a large collection of bookmarks in my browser with keyword shortcuts for alot of them. I now have transfered them all to YubNub (and some of them were already there). Now if I change computers I can keep using the same shortcuts without setting them up again. Many of them also work as searches you just need to append your search terms at the end of the command.

And the staple commands that you need for YubNub: create - makes new commands, ls - to search the current commands, and man - information about a command. Above is not by any means an exhaustive list. It is just the commands that suit me, there are plenty to chose from already and with the create command if they don’t have what you need you just make it. Interestingly I have just found QuickSilver, which is sort of like a command line for everything on the computer. I am not sure exactly how it works yet. But it looks good.