There are extensions for all of your favorite Notes and To Do list applications, instantly creating a note after selecting the text. Someone created a Say extension for PopClip that does it instantly. I’m sure you know you can have OS X speak any text you select, but it’s a couple of pulldown menus to do it so it’s clumsy. One of my new favorites takes the text you’ve selected and displays it in Large Text on screen. I started scanning the 142 extensions that are available and it’s crazy what you can do with PopClip.
You know how you copy some text from the web and paste it into an email or a document and it has all the dumb formatting of the website instead of your document? If you use the Paste= extension in PopClip, it executes a past and match style which means the pasted text takes on the format of your document. My main use of PopClip has been to add the “Paste =” extension. When I’m done explaining what Claus taught me, you’re not going to have to do this to use my Amazon Affiliate link because I’ll give you the extension, but I’m going through this so you can make your own extensions if you like.
#Popclip extensions free#
The cool part about PopClip is that people can write extensions for it and as of right now there are 142 free extensions available. PopClip’s behavior is contextual, so it will change to offer paste, look up in Finder and more options depending on where you select text. At its most basic level, when you select text in OS X, a little window pops up above the text, offering to copy the text, search the words on the Internet or look the word or words up in the dictionary. PopClip is a menu bar app from PilotMoon that lets you do all kinds of fun things. Let’s start with the geekier idea first, and that’s the PopClip extension. I figure most of you will never do this but the tools he’s teaching me are so cool, I wanted to share the fun.
Once you’ve watched them I think you’ll be motivated to give one of these ideas a play. They’re great because they really show how much easier it is to use one of these solutions rather than trying to remember to go to and enter a search term in that little Amazon box. When Claus first told me about his ideas I didn’t really “get” how they would work so he made two videos that I’ve linked in the shownotes.
Just in case someone doesn’t know what we’re talking about here, if you buy something on Amazon after using my Amazon Affiliate link, a small percentage goes to help the show and it costs you nothing.Ĭlaus’ two ideas to make it easy and natural to help out the show are a bookmarklet and a PopClip extension. Like any good NosillaCastaway he started with a problem to be solved: “People don’t use affiliate search boxes on websites, because they are creatures of habit and changing habits is hard and nearly impossible, unless there is value to be gained by doing so.” He’s right, I hear from people all the time saying they meant to use it but they have trouble remembering.
He came up with two great ideas to make it super easy and even kind of fun to use Amazon Affiliate links. My new favorite NosillaCastaways is My new favorite NosillaCastaway is Claus Wolf from Germany.
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