or is it?

thermoCline is better integrated with a lot of great OS X apps now. The goal is to be a universal quick entry text field for all your applications. Whether making a Note in Yojimbo, a Task in Things, just app the thermoCLine shortcut (default is option-space) and enter.
Application Includes:

To Do/Task Management integration (optional) with Things or Taskpaper.

Note taking (including tagging) with Evernote, Yojimbo, and Notational Velocity.

Text Editors, including TextMate, BBEdit, TextWrangler, Coda, TextEdit, Pages, and more.

Web apps, including twitter, Google Voice, Google search, Yubnub, is.gd.

1. Global Keyboard Shortcuts for activating thermoCLine and web search are now built into thermoCLine (before you had to use an applescript with a program like Fastscripts or Quicksilver). Edit them, turn them on or off, and select google or yubnub for the search engine in preferences.

2. Auto-complete. When using an action that involves searching, thermoCLine will help you out by suggesting and auto-completing what you’re looking for. Examples:

-When typing a Finder path, look below the command field for path solutions. If you see the one you’re trying to type, just type a “/” and you’ll get it.

- When writing an email and typing in email addresses, thermoCLine will search your address book; you can type either the email address or the contact’s name, and thermoCLine will offer suggestions below the command field. Type “,” or “/” or “]” to grab the suggestion.

- When using either Google Voice action, thermoCLine will also search your address book for phone numbers; you can start typing either the phone number or contact name you’re trying to call/sms and thermoCLine will offer up suggestions. Type “/” or “]” to auto-complete.

3. thermoCLine now supports Taskpaper. When using the To Do action, you can input “Taskpaper” instead of an iCal calendar, and thermoCLine will add your to do’s to Taskpaper’s “inbox” project as a task entry. Full support for @date and !priorities are included.

4. When using an action like “text file” “note” or “email” where you might want to type multiple paragraphs, thermoCLine now lets you hit return without sending the command. An “Open” button appears on thermCLine’s interface. Just click, or tab over and hit space, to run the command.

5. Timer. Prefers Growl. Type timer into the action field (on the right) and in the command field type a number of minutes and, optionally, a message. After the time has elapsed Growl will pop up your message. Great for quick reminders like “Leave for a meeting” in 15 minutes. Great for pomodoro.

Here’s a video demo:

Also, (slightly) better documentation. There’s still no graphic instruction, but the instruction are definately more detailed, more correct, and easier to read…

Spotlight: opens a spotlight search in a finder window. Combine it with all the thermoCLine path tricks and you can open a spotlight search for pdfs in your Documents folder with just “dd/ name:pdf” and “spotlight” in your action field.

qs: send files, folders, text to Quicksilver

tr.im: shortens urls

url: just that, enter a url, hit enter, and boom.

math: a calculator, based on the unix utility bc

there’s also been some work on keywords (type them into the command field):

“this” grabs whatever is selected in your current application and brings it into thermoCLine’s text field. Great for creating notes and emails.

“grab” snaps the Finder’s frontmost window to the foreground and feeds its path into thermoCLine

“one” closes all open Finder windows, but the frontmost one, and resize the frontmost window for a refreshed finder.

“fiwi” closes all open Finder windows but two, and resizes the two to stretch horizontally across your screen. (inspired by the great applescript application http://tr.im/EaUx)

But, for now, here’s thermoCLine… a hot command line for OS X. It’s quick, its lightweight, it can navigate your Mac faster than anything else…

What can it do?
-google
-access the web’s command line “YubNub”
-post to twitter
-create To Do items in iCal
-write and send emails
-add notes to your favorite Note taking apps
-start text files in your favorite text editor
-run shell scripts, send commands to Terminal.app
-move and copy files around your Mac
-and open files and folders very easy, very quickly.
-and more…

Here’s a link to a YouTube video of (an early version) it in action: http://tr.im/D7g9

And its free. It’s also a beta. It’s lightweight and shouldn’t affect other applications or your system much, but you might hit some snags and I’d appreciate any bug reporting done here. or to elasticthreads AT gmail dot c o m

The application requires Snow Leopard. If you’re not on Snow, you can still use the Quicksilver action. You can install one or both (or none). Downloads:

the application can be downloaded here.

the QS action, here.