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Many of the commands suggested on this page have already been implemented, either by us or by third parties.  Please take a look at [https://labs.toolness.com/ubiquity-herd/all-feeds/ | The Herd's command feed index] to see what commands other people have implemented.  You may find what you're looking for there!

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==Search Commands==
*Bookmarklet command; execute any bookmarklet via the keyboard.
*Map contact command, a command to get the location(s) of a contact from your contact list.( map-contact (name) )
* Google site search multiple urls in selection.  You would select a block of text containing multiple urls, and be able to search them all simultaneously for any given text.
* Flickr search (a [http://194.95.111.244/%7Ecountzero/scripts/_myImageFlow/ coverflow-like preview] would be awesome)
* last.fm search with preview (a first attempt has been made [http://www.geero.net/ here])
* Google Image Search with preview
* Google Sets (part of Google labs) to give related terms based on user input
* More specific Google searches, like google video search on 'video', and google definition search type "define:mozilla" into google.
* A search for the Gawker sites eg: Gizmodo, Lifehacker, etc...
* a command to find the largest number in a given tab/present page
* A search for books by ISBN number for availability in libraries of your choice. Use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/ 'Book sources'] by wikipedia to find it. To find the book with ISBN number 1871890306 in SF, you Ubiq "ISBN 1871890306 in San Francisco", or if you are in San Francisco, you can type "ISBN 1871890306 here", using your geo-location by ip attached to the [http://labs.toolness.com/trac/ticket/179 magic word 'here'], which I believe will be part of Ubiq 0.2. Integration with maps in a later stage? Discuss [http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla/topics/book_source_your_isbn_numbers_through_ubiquity here]. 
* One command should be able to launch several searches on different sites in different tabs. It worked before, with several Utils.openUrlInBrowser's, but 0.1.1 broke it.
* Froogle search ([http://stanford.edu/~marce110/verbs/froogle-search.html This] works pretty well for now, but it's messy and would break if Google changed the format of the search results.)

==Program Integration==
* Goto command for navigating the web quick and easy but I want it in the core.
* Commands for all of the menu items (so that I never have to reach for the mouse to menu again). Sandro mentioned this recently.
* Search command (allows you to search for text in any open tab, and then navigate you there)
* Flock stuff (be inspired by whatever seems to be actually useful in Flock)
* Program launcher (When in Chrome, JS can launch other applications) 
** Especially nice if it could integrate with existing application launchers (ie: Quicksilver, Launchy, etc)
* Ability to take snapshots of the current window
* Queries for places datastores, rendering in plain html blue links (Beltzer showed me a little js console script that is a fine starting point).
** tag:(hci gestuers)
** site:google date:yesterday show:clicks
** starred intitle:Concept
* Integrate with Thunderbird, Sunbird, Songbird and other Mozilla software
* Allow for commands to be treated as content/arguments for other commands ie: email {map Washington DC} to myfriend@gmail.com would open up an email box to friend1 with a map of DC in the content pane
* clone of email command for Gajim/Pidgin/Psi/Adium...
* Integration with Instant Messenger clients (AIM, Pidgin, Trillion, etc) to allow inserting content into a message for a particular contact ie 'IM this to John'
* Idea:: have a very, very small program run on start up, that detects when the key combination is pressed and will launch Ubiquity. After Ubiquity is dismissed, it will return to its original state.
* In Firefox, "Bookmark this" & "Create bookmark folder <data>"
* For Linux, allow users and other commands to be sent to the terminal...eg. IF you had selected text and wanted to open in gedit, ubiquity would tell the terminal to open gedit then paste in text..etc

==Tools==
* Annotate web pages and then share those annotations (perhaps using google notebook?)
* Close unrelated tabs: similar to close all related tabs
* Download manager - A text based download manager like wget on linux
* Related articles and images, possibly using Zemanta like [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7571 this plugin].
* Replace words in selected text (optional: regular expressions)
* Save current site into a PDF file
* Save page as... "Web Page, complete" to a pre-specified folder
* Spell checker - any text, not just form fields
* Related to spell checker - take highlighted text, pass it through any number of online dictionaries, and let user select which word to use as replacement.
* Status message editor - Easily modify status and/or status message on popular IM protocols
* Perhaps "convert 8pm australian time to my time" where my timezone could automatically be obtained from CmdUtils.getLocation()
* 'Tag' function:
** Auto-complete from current tags list would be excellent
** Needs to handle multiple, comma-separated tags, better.  Currently adds the comma to the tag name (eg. 'tag snacks, quick-meals' creates a new tag called "snacks,")
* 'Undo' function should work on in-page replacements (eg. translating highlighted text or inserting a map into page)
* Upload selected image to [http://tinypic.com tinypic] or the like
* Disable "window.print()" API for all pages, or replace it with a less intrusive variant (toast notification?)
* Command Creator From Forms: Kind of like how you can create keyword searches by right clicking any search box, but you would be able to right-click any form from any search or web publish forms and select "Create Ubiquity Command..." which pops a box where you say the the command keyword
* Add a domain (current domain as default) to cookie whitelist

==Site Integration==
*Youtube: Highlight a youtube link and embed the video. Could be used with other sites as well.
* Blogger:
** 'blog' function, to create a new blog post from selected text
*Command for [http://www.mytextfile.com MyTextFile] such as, "note/textfile (text)." It should auto-save so you never leave Ubiquity, unless, opening a new tab is necessary. Very similar to how email works now.
* Google Calendar: 
**ability to add more information to a calendar appointment such as location (perhaps signaled by @ ), calendar choice ( [ ] ), improved date parsing (you could say next Wednesday, and it could figure it out, maybe like [http://www.datejs.com/ DateJS]).
**ability to get a preview of my next 10 calendar entries.
** access HTTPS version of calendar, perhaps with 'add-to-scalendar' and 'check-scalendar'
* Gmail:
** Add contact, from a selected text to your contact list in gmail. 
** Gmail labels, alphabetical lookup from available labels.  Code possibly similar to the greasemonkey script [http://blog.persistent.info/2007/11/macros-for-new-version-of-gmail.html macros] for gmail.
* Google Maps - 
** when a google map image is inserted into a form, the image should have a link to the map on the google map site. e.g.: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Budapest,+Hungary&ie=UTF8&z=11&iwloc=addr
** Google Directions search, perhaps separating locations with a semicolon if Ubiquity doesn't understand multiple word arguments.
** Route information
* Internationalisation (google.co.uk, ebay.co.uk. etc) 
** weather command in Celsius
** localize verbs (and their parameters: 01/09 = 1st September in some country)
** "map" command needs to be country-specific (maps.google.com.xx)
* Flickr integration (ability to inject pictures/slideshows and post found images to Flickr) 
* More advanced twitter integration (a command to view last x messages from a specific friend and another to view your recent friends timeline)
* Blog integration (select a chunk of text or an image and then blog about it in your favorite blog software)
* Fly command (possibly using [http://tripeedo.com/ Tripeedo]'s built-in natural language search and the site's preview or the Kayak API) to make booking flights easier
* Digg (see Sandro's [http://ubiquity-firefox.googlegroups.com/web/diggthis.js diggthis command])
* Reddit/Mixx
* Del.icio.us (e.g. "delic this" or "delic this with tag1 tag2 tag3")
* Turn referencing friend feed comments and tweets on a page (defaulted to the current page) into page annotations via command "show conversations"
* Integration with Jaiku, Plurk, Pownce, and other microblogging services (not only with Twitter)
* Integration with Google Docs and Google Notebook
* Command to send selected text to tinypaste.com and/or shorttext.com, pastebin.com, cl1p.net etc.
* Subscribe to current site's feed via Google Reader or other RSS reader
* Add to Google Bookmarks
* Easily control [http://www.bitlet.org BitLet.org]
* Add torrents with [http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/HTML_WebUI Azureus' HTML WebUI]. => this can be done with Greasemonkey already
* Geotag flickr photos easily (see [http://labs.sumaato.net/tools/flickr_geocode_bookmarklet/ Localize Bookmarklet])
* Take highlighted thread, and paste it in a forum.  Because of the amount of forums, it might be better to just have a template for each forum type.
* Evernote command (post this page/text to evernote) suggested by Ben [http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox/browse_thread/thread/68d7f5d7f817c4d5?hl=en here]
* Adobe Buzzword integration
* tempomail / jetable (temp mail address) integration
* Horde email/calendar
* SMS Messaging. Text-message content to a contact or phone number. Could integrate with an existing service such as: http://smseverywhere.com/send.htm
* Set tv recording. For those people using mythtv / myth* or a TiVo with a web front-end, if you saw a show on some web site, like tvrage or any channel that shows tv-listings, highlight the show, and say 'record this'. This would probably be very dependent on your specific web front-end / TVR hardware.
*integrate into MySpace. command such as "send this to (myspace contact): (selected text or image, maybe even if your on youtube, it will automatically imbed.)" Another could be "set headline as (selected text or input)"
* Integrate with [http://www.squirrelmail.org/ SqirrelMail]
* Integrate with [http://roundcube.net/ RoundCube Mail]
* Integrate with [http://sourceforge.net/projects/scuttle/ Scuttle Bookmarks]
* Integrate with [http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/ WebCalendar]
* Integrate with [http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ Remember The Milk]. Add tasks, get list of tasks, mark tasks as completed, etc. They have a really rich API. (Adding tasks is done: [http://garyhodgson.com/ubiquity/rtm.html here], with a more advanced version coming soon.)
* [http://www.facebook.com Facebook] status setting-resetting integration. Ping.fm has been implemented but there are users (like me) that prefer to use only one social networking site, hence they don't need a ping.fm account. (already done [http://home.comcast.net/~captainbeah/ubiquity/facebook/ here])
* Integrate with [http://www.me.com/ MobileMe] to allow similar email and calendar editing integration as for the Google equivalents (GMail etc.)
* Integrate with [http://www.ryanair.com/ Ryanair] to allow searching for flights using Ubiquity.

==Extension Integration==
* BlueOrganizer (be inspired by [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3481 this addon] and it's somewhat semantic knowledge)  
* Take inspiration from [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1407  Clipmarks]
* Firebug integration, inspect DOM-Reference, show firebug net panel
* Media player control similar to [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/219 FoxyTunes]
* AnyColor integration -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6991
* Faviconize -- A command called Fav [open tab] to change it's state from showing/hiding title
* Commands for Screen grab! extension
* Undo Closed Tabs Button feature like the extension of that name. (Note: this is built into Firefox 3.0, no need for this extension anymore)
* Adblock Plus integration, along with NoScript.
* Ability to inject Webslices, for use with Webchunks.
* Fast Dial integration
* Overwrite the window.print command with a less intrusive UI. It would instead pop a notification/toaster ("this site wants to print itself. _Print_").
* Greasemonkey integration: "greasemonkey-edit <userscript>". It would autocomplete the userscript name based on the list of installed userscripts.

==Finished Commands==
* [http://www.google.com/sitesearch/ Google Site Search] integration. (Example: "search komplett.ie for cpu coolers") [http://mysite.verizon.net/zaduma/ Done]
* Metacritic (metacritic.com) review searching - [http://mysite.verizon.net/zaduma/ Done]
* Torrent search [http://mysite.verizon.net/zaduma/ Done]
* Reveal the exact URL-s behind tinyurl-s (see [http://ghill.customer.netspace.net.au/embiggen/ Embiggen Bookmarklet]) [http://mysite.verizon.net/zaduma/ Done]
* BugMeNot lookup for current page [http://www.geocities.com/lemming4242 Done]
* Open command (select multiple links, then open them all in tabs) [http://www.geocities.com/lemming4242/ Done]
* An online bible service command. [http://tim.sorbera.googlepages.com/ubiquity.html Done]
* A command to open a selected URL. [http://tim.sorbera.googlepages.com/ubiquity.html Done]
* Twitter Search - [http://gist.github.com/7594 Done] but could benefit from a sexier UI
* Random number generator.  Floating point value with input of the following type:  random lower-val higher-val
** Example:  Random 0 1;  Gives 0.252
** Example:  Random 1 100; Gives 275.840
** [http://ubiquitously.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12 Done]
* Go command (for switching between tabs by name)  (achieved by the "tab" command builtin to Ubiquity)
* Reopen an existing tab in a new tab. Sometimes you want to search for a new topic (in Wikipedia for example), and you have to re-open a new tab, then copy and paste the current url. Why not have a "re-open" command that lets you create a new tab, and copy the currently opened page over to it? (Alt+D > Alt+Enter currently does this. necessary?) (No. Did it anyways.) [http://ubiquitously.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=22 Done]
* Currency conversion [http://ubiquitously.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=25 Done]
* Unit conversion [http://ubiquitously.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=25 Done (Same as above)]
* Stock quotes [http://ubiquitously.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=26 Done]
* A "view source" for Ubiq commands. For example, "view-source link-to-wikipedia" => [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1.1_Release_Notes available] in Ubiq 0.1.1, although not as a command.
* Link finder (like the "link-to-wikipedia" command but then, instead of inserting a link to wikipedia, allow the user to find the link from history/bookmarks. This would save a lot of excess work because at the moment, to insert a link, you have to open up a new tab, find the page you want to link to, copy the address and then, go back to add the link) => try [http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000343.html insert-link]
* Command that takes each search plugin/provider you have in the search-bar (by default, right of the locationbar in IE7 & FF2 & 3, plus more), and turns it into a command you can use.  Thus, having search plugin/providers at your fingertips in ubiquity, and adding a search plugin/provider command is just as easy as using already created functionality;  This could either be done in the underlying code of Ubiquity, or maybe have it so that the command is done as "Search <Plugin/Provider> <Terms>
** I'm a moron..I actually had a command that did this.[http://theunfocused.net/moz/ubiquity/verbs/?cmd=search]
** Dup:  Integration of your installed Firefox search engines.
* Timezone converter - something like "get time in australia" ([https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Commands_In_The_Wild#Time Done])
* Ping.fm - can potentially replace twitter and facebook-status commands ([http://waleed.doubleudesigns.com/2008/08/ubiquity-and-pingfm/ Done])
* <tt>google-here <text></tt>: site-search on current site (without typing it explicitly) => ([http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox/browse_thread/thread/5c2c80df1c61d4f8 Done])