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.

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. 

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!

At first I thought that this was a lite version of Alfred or spotlight however I was mistaken. As those are geared toward app launching / searching for computer files, Liquid is geared toward searching for the etymology/definition/translations of words. If you are working with large bodies of text and are constantly translating multiple languages or looking up the root of many words, this app is a must have. You can also add additional reference/search sites that encode the search paramater within the URL and create a summary view of lengthy articles, a welcomed time saver.