Suggested workflow tools

[jsekamane]

Here are a two suggestions to help your workflow aka. power user tools.

1. Look up words – e.g. Wikipedia, Dictionary – from any app

Pick any of the four options to look up a word (e.g. angiotensin):

• Hover mouse over the word and press command ⌘ + control ⌃ + D keys.
• Right-click the word, then select Look up.
• Three-finger trackpad-click on the word.
• Spotlight search the word, then press command ⌘ + L keys.

Adding Wikipedia: in the preferences of Dictionary app select "Wikipedia".

Unfortunately, the first three options do not work for words that are part of a hyperlink.

2. DuckDuckGo's bangs lets you search any site directly – e.g. Wikipedia, Genebank, Proteinbank, etc.

Works best if DuckDuckGo is your default search engine – since this turns your address bar into a CLI for looking-up/searching any site. (Relax you can still search Google!).

Try typing any of these search term examples into DuckDuckGo

• !w Human coronavirus NL63
  Wikipedia https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!w+Human+coronavirus+NL63
• !gene ORF1AB
  NCBI https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!gene+ORF1AB
• !protein QHD43418
  NCBI https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!protein+QHD43418
• !a Molecular Biology Cell
  Amazon https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!a+Molecular+Biology+Cell
• !gsch Molecular structure nucleic acids
  Google Scholar https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!gsch+Molecular+structure+nucleic+acids
• !alpha AAGCTAGCTAGC
  WolframAlpha https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!alpha+AAGCTAGCTAGC
• !pubchem n aminoethyl aziridineethanamine
  NCBI https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!pubchem+n+aminoethyl+aziridineethanamine
• !g regular ass google search
  Google https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!g+regular+ass+google+search
• covid-19 positive reddit
  DuckDuckGo https://duckduckgo.com/?q=covid-19+positive+reddit

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I'll add more suggestions as they come to mind.