Update: Use TextExpander to trigger 1Password auto-logins
Note you can do the same stuff below in any browser using TextExpander. This is great!
In chrome you can quickly setup keyboard shortcuts to take you to your favorite sites by using the built in custom search engines.
e.g., when I type “yt” and hit enter I’m taken directly to YouTube.com. The same is true for “gm” for gmail, “gi” + space + keyword to do a quick google image search, “hm” for Hypem.com’s most popular tracks, etc.
I’m addicted to this lil’ feature, saves me loads of time and thought sauce.
Another thing I’m addicted to is 1Password–the excellent password manager etcetera–and the way it automatically logs me in when I click a bookmark within the 1Password app.
What I really needed was a way to use chrome’s keyboard shortcut stuff to take me to a site using 1Passwords automatic login voodoo. So I found a way.
The impetus here was switching domain registrars from GoDaddy (who’s username/password field is automatically populated by chrome) to NameCheap (who’s username/password fields are mysteriously invisible to Chrome’s autofill stuff).
Hijack Google Chrome’s custom search engines to create keyboard shortcuts that automatically log you into your sites
Heres what you need to do:
Open up a text editor and a new text doc
Drag the bookmark you want to create the keyboard shortcut for from 1Password to your text file
You’ll notice the lil ?onepasswdfill= thingy at the end of the URL. I think this is the voodoo.
Drag this guy into your text document to get the secret codeword
Right click on Chrome’s address bar and select “Edit Search Engines…”
Give your new search engine a name, keyboard shortcut and then paste in the URL from your text document
Create a new search engine in Chrome by right clicking the address bar
Violá! Now you type your shortcut into chrome’s address bar and watch as 1Password voodoos your internet! If you’ve unlocked 1Password recently the whole thing goes according to plan, if you haven’t unlocked 1Password it simply asks you for your master password.
This, gentle reader, is why I love internet.
