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Alfred is a great quicklaunch application for Mac OS X, which is ultra fast and offers great features to extend its search. It’s pretty easy to add a personal Zootool search to Alfred, so this is how to do it:

Get Alfred
It’s free and in a public beta at the moment.
http://www.alfredapp.com/

Go to “Preferences” > “Features” > “Custom Searches”

Add a new custom search with the following values

Here’s the search URL you just need to copy and paste:

http://zootool.com/zoo/search:{query}

This will allow you to directly jump to your Zoo and search for a given searchword from Alfred.

Add another custom search

Here’s the second search URL:

http://zootool.com/user/{query}

This will allow you to jump to Zootool user profiles.

Try it out
Hit your Alfred keyboard shortcut (the default is alt+space) to bring up the Alfred console. Simply type in the Zootool shortcuts you just entered (zt for search, zu for user profiles) followed by the search word or username you choose.