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Emailing

You find an interesting snippet on a webpage and wish to share it with a friend.

Normally you'd have to:

• Open your email application/webmail
• Compose a new message
• Enter friend's email address (which may include opening your address book first, and looking in there)
• Switch back to the page you were just on, and copy the text
• Go back to your new email, paste text
• Switch back to the page you were just on, and copy the image you want to send
• Go back to your new email, paste image
• Send email

Ideally you should be able to:

• Select part of the page you want to send
• Type into address bar:

 email this to blair

• Hit enter

Mapping

You find the website of a new restaurant, but you don't know how to get there and the website doesn't have a map.

Normally you'd have to:

• Copy the address
• Open a new tab to Google Maps, or some other mapping service
• Paste the address
• If the address is split across multiple lines, go back to the previous tab, copy, go to map tab, paste, repeat for each consecutive line
• Hit enter/click "search" button
• Enter the address where you are now, to get directions

Ideally you should be able to:

• Select the address (multi-line or not)
• Type into address bar:

 map this

• Look at map and directions

Booking tickets

Your favorite local band is playing live next weekend, and you want to book tickets before its sold out.

Normally you'd have to:

• Open ticket-sellers website
• Figure out how to search for gigs
• Search for band
• Potentially limit search to your local area
• Limit search to a given time-frame (including figuring out the date of next weekend)
• Buy ticket

Ideally you should be able to:

• Type into address bar:

 tickets Beatles on next weekend

• Click "buy" on desired ticket

Searching

You want to do a normal web search, but switching search engines in the search bar is a pain.

Normally you'd have to:

• Focus search bar
• Select search engine by using dropdown without mouse, or CTRL+UP/DOWN with keyboard
• Type in query
• Load search results in a tab
• Click on a result to load the right webpage

Ideally you should be able to:

• Type into address bar:

 search personas on google

• Select a result in the dropdown list to load the webpage

Checking the weather

You want to go on a picnic later today, but aren't sure what the weather is going to be like.

Normally you'd have to:

• Go to weather website
• Type in your city and country
• Click on item in search results to load weather page for that city
• Scroll down page to find weather report

Ideally you should be able to:

• Type into address bar:

 weather

Shopping

You want to buy your favorite author's latest book.

Normally you'd have to:

• Go to a book seller's website, such as Amazon.com
• Type in book title in search field, hit enter
• Click on one of the many results, each of the same book
• Click the "buy" button

Ideally you should be able to:

• Type into the address bar:

 shop contextual design with amazon

• Click "buy"

Sharing on your social network

You have exciting news and want to share it with all your Twitter followers.

Normally you'd have to:

• Load the Twitter website, or a Twitter client
• Optionally sign in
• Type in the news, submit

Ideally you should be able to:

• Type into address bar:

 share i bought a house! on twitter

Looking up a word

Whilst reading an interesting article, you find a word you've never heard of before, and want to know what it means.

Normally you'd have to:

• Select the word
• Copy the selected word
• Open a dictionary website such as dictionary.com
• Paste word into search field, submit

Ideally you should be able to:

• Select the word
• Type into the address bar:

 define

Music

You hear a song on streaming radio that you love, and want to find out more about the artist.

Normally you'd have to:

• Load a music website
• Type into search field, submit
• Click on one of the results to load the relevant page

Ideally you should be able to:

• Type into address bar:

 music warren zevon

Movies

You've just finished watching a old movie, and want to find out if there are any sequels.

Normally you'd have to:

• Load a film/movie website
• Type movie name into search field, submit
• Hope any sequels have the same name, otherwise click on a search result
• Look for any references to a sequel

Ideally you should be able to:

• Type into address bar:

 movie casino royale

• Read list of movies also in that series

Booking a reservation at a restaurant

It's been awhile since you've gone out, so you decide to treat yourself and your significant other to a meal at a restaurant. You want to try some place you've never been to before, but it's always difficult getting a reservation for a Friday night.

Normally you'd have to:

• Look up local restaurants, crossing off those you've been to before.
• Figure out if you can book online at any of the remaining restaurants.
• Give up and just call a restaurant
• Find out there are no free tables on the night you want
• Find another restaurant to call
• Repeat until you have a reservation

Ideally you should be able to:

• Type into addressbar:

 restaurant mountain view on friday at 8pm

• Go through the list of restaurants with free tables at that time, pick one that looks interesting, and click "Reserve table".