My First Ubiquity Command – Thesaurus

by zachary.spencer on September 2, 2008

Another Update! A reader named Justin was so kind as to update the command to include support for Ubiquity .5. Thanks a ton Justin!

Update! Tom Wright sent me an updated script for it with a preview pane! I’ve updated the original JS file!

OK, so I’ve been slacking lately… But I found I had need of a thesaurus and figured ubiquity would be a great place to start. The command is simply “thesaurus word” and it opens up a thesaurus.reference.com page with the, you guessed it, word . Not sure how much time it will save, but it is nice for pulling up quick references. Future revisions will include a preview pane… Maybe.

Tagged as: Thesaurus, ubiquity tools

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Life of a Web Programmer » Blog Archive » Much Thanks to Tom Wright, who updated my original thesaurus command with a preview pane!: September 21, 2008 at 4:52 pm

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1 Jacob September 3, 2008 at 10:42 am: Installed it and used it and it worked. Should I ever need a thesaurus I know where to go now!
2 Thomas January 2, 2009 at 9:41 am: Sooo, where is it?
3 zachary.spencer January 9, 2009 at 11:47 am: It is still at the original location, just been updated.
4 Endolith January 19, 2009 at 6:04 pm: How do you insert the link rel tag in WordPress without it being eaten by the rich text editor?
5 zachary.spencer January 20, 2009 at 6:56 am: I believe I simply did my final submit outside of rich edit mode.
6 Randall A. Gordon January 30, 2009 at 9:38 pm: Hey, this is great, I’ve been using it at work and just stopped by to subscribe to it on my box at home. Big thank you!
7 Zachary January 30, 2009 at 9:44 pm: Hi Randall,

I’m glad it’s working for you .
8 Jeremy February 26, 2009 at 3:33 pm: Excellent, thanks for this, though it looks like in its current form I’m seeing antonyms listed first followed directly by synonyms. A bit odd.

The perfection of this command would be the option to choose a synonym and insert/replace selected input text in the browser.

Go ubiquity.
9 Endolith February 27, 2009 at 4:27 pm: Now you should make the preview look like the Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus.

I’m sure it’s trivial to code…
10 Justin August 1, 2009 at 9:33 pm: I found this useful, thanks. I hacked it to work with Ubiquity 0.5 (and credit Tom Wright, since it looked like you wanted to do that). Would you please replace the script? http://pastebin.com/f68e136ac
11 Zachary August 24, 2009 at 9:41 pm: Hey Justin,

Thanks a ton! I’ve updated the command with your script.
12 Julien Couvreur November 1, 2009 at 2:53 pm: Very nice. Love the new preview function. Thanks!
13 JDiP March 4, 2010 at 9:54 am: Again: Where is it? I see no link to install it…………
14 Zachary March 4, 2010 at 10:25 am: OK, apparently I keep killing the command if I ever update the post. This should now happen again.