Liquid 4+

Liquid

Letters. Words. Sentences. Paragraphs. Page after page of words on the internet, cluttering my computer, my mind, and my day. How are they all connected? What do they all mean?

Liquid.

If I were faced with the task of teaching someone, who had never used a electronic device what the internet does and is capable of I would begin by introducing them to Liquid.

“Well, what do I do if I want to, and what is, and how do you, and what does all this mean …?”

They can all be answered with a few taps and Liquid.

I have a socket wrench. I use different attachments on it: standard, metric, extensions, and so forth. The wrench is something I can fit tools to helping me implement useful tasks I engage in, which enliven myself and others.

Liquid is something I use in expressing thoughts I have in a clear and meaningful way to myself and others.

Very easy to get the hang of.
Lovely to look at and use.

That Apple hasn’t appropriated and absorbed the principles in Liquid as standard features remains a mystery. Probably because the development of Liquid continues to evolve into greater, more expansive usefulness which only a loving crafter might devote to a masterpiece.

Liquid is a work of devoted love for communication, computers, words, and in the end the customer using this brilliant software.

Drastic workflow improvements abound

This is an essential application. To be sure it is elegant, brilliantly executed, and a time saver. The ability to properly cite and retrieve quotes from the Internet to use now or repurpose later is invaluable to a writer or researcher. The shortcuts to search specific or designated websites allows the Internet to become more accessible in daily workflows. The ease with which one can translate from English to French with no need to take your hands off the keyboard is a wonder as is the ability to convert from different measurement units. I use this app multiple times during the day, and it remains wondrously new. 

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your kind words. They are very much appreciated.

Is not well integrated with Sonoma 14.4

3 stars because the utilities work, but the intended function does not (ie. quick keyboard shortcut). 5 stars if the setup for CMD @ or alternate worked out of the box. Settings are not intuitive for fixing it, and documentation is inconsistent between the application and the online documents.

The keyboard command functionality is not always as swift as it used to be. For example, for my Drafts app, I can reliably use CMD SHIFT 2 to open a draft capture no matter where or what I am doing oon the OS. Liquid needs text to be highlighted, and that text needs to be of a certain kind (ie, not in a zotero pdf). This makes this extraordinary tool less smooth and intuitive, which is the selling point. Hard to recommend.

I got CMD SHIFT 3 to work on highlighting plain text in text editors. Wish it was reliable as my Drafts application!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your comments. We'll keep looking into the speed and the keyboard setup.