Quix is an extensible bookmarklet for your browser that makes it easier to do the many tasks that you do everyday using your web browser.

Imagine having a whole bunch of browser bookmarks that you use everyday to do the many mundane tasks that you do using your web browser. At times it would be overwhelming, especially if you don’t have those bookmarks well organized and handy.

Imagine forgetting about all the places in your browser that you have to jump to do the tasks that you have to do and instead imagine a single browser bookmarklet that can take your commands and execute it for you so you can get things done a lot quicker on your browser. That’s exactly what Quix does.

Quix is a simple browser bookmarklet that when invoked can execute simple commands to do the many tasks that you do with your web browser. It understands commands like “g” to search the web using Google, “e” to email a link, “d” to define a word etc.

To start using Quix, first you drag the “Qiux App” bookmarklet to your browser bookmarks (visit their site to see the bookmarklet). If you’d prefer to customize the way your browser handles the bookmarklet you can read more from this page for your particular browser. Quix supports Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari on your iPhone.

Once you click (or use your browser shortcut keys) on the bookmarklet it’ll launch a small popup window that takes Quix commands. The commands ranges from,

• Basic Commands
• Social Commands
• Wordpress Commands
• SEO Commands
• Webmaster Commands
• Quix Commands
• Analytics Commands
• URL Shortening Commands
• App Integration Commands
• Mac Integration Commands

There is a comprehensive list of commands that Quix understands on this page. Here are some interesting commands that I thought is worth mentioning,

• d – define a word using Google
• e – email a link
• f – Flickr search
• g – Google search
• tr – translate the page
• w – Wikipedia search
• db – bookmark the current page in Delicious
• fb – share the current page on Facebook
• tn – tweet the current page
• yt – YouTube search
• plugin – Wordpress plugin search
• wp – Wordpress function search
• h – header info for the current URL
• seo – quick SEO checkup for the current page
• host – host info for the current domain
• ruler – show a ruler to measure elements in a page
• help – Quix help
• bitly – shorten the URL with Bit.ly
• evernote – clip current page with Evernote

Many of the commands you’ve seen above would involve multiple steps if done manually. With Quix it takes out couple of those repetitive steps and make you get the job done quicker. If you think your needs are not met with the commands that Quix supports (as of now) you can extend Quix commands by following the instructions on this page.

If you’d rather like to watch a video of Quix in action, here is a video that explains in detail.

Overall, Quix looks interesting but the adoption of it will be completely based on the wide variety of commands that Quix can understand. Since we cannot expect everyone to write their own Quix extensions I hope the Quix team pushes out as much commands as they possibly can imagine. Setting up a page to get those command ideas wouldn’t be a bad idea too.

I know Quix will be most loved by those of you who use Terminal or Command window to get anything done on your Mac or PC. For the rest of us if you still find any better usage of Quix please share with us in comments.