If you weren’t aware, you can use your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac. I revealed this super-handy time saver in my recent macOS setup tips video, but it demands further exploration. TextSniper works with anything on the screen (and pretty much any Mac) and it’ll even read out the text you grab, which is super useful for some users. Live Text in macOS Monterey will provide this functionality for the masses, but only with images – and only if you have an M1 machine. video calls (when someone throws up a presentation, grabbing a copy of their text no longer requires a screenshot I can’t interact with).Notion ( as much as I love this tool, it is irritatingly difficult to copy and paste text to/from) and.PDFs (for when it is ludicrously difficult to simply copy and paste text within a particular document).I’ve found this incredibly useful for three scenarios: So, if there’s an image, presentation, PDF or screencast containing text you can’t easily copy and paste, with TextSniper, you can simply draw a frame around the content and it’ll grab the text for you (all you need to do is hit the paste command). With TextSniper, you can convert literally anything on your screen into text. I’m therefore delighted to welcome TextSniper as a sponsor for this blog post – that’s how much I like their tool. I was lucky enough to be given a license for TextSniper as a trial, and I’ve found it so useful that it now occupies an essential place in my digital toolkit. Only, for me, that’s a bit limiting, because I’ve got used to an awesome tool called TextSniper. It enables you to grab text from any image and paste it wherever you like. Later this year, we’ll be able to get our hands on the full release of macOS Monterey, which will include something called Live Text. Emails, apps (installed or otherwise) and notes will be surfaced, along with files and all manner of other useful results.įor me, it’s nothing more than a simple way to access apps that are not on my dock, or when I simply can’t be bothered to move my mouse pointer down to the dock. You’ll be presented with the Spotlight Search field, into which you can type anything. To invoke it, you can either click the little hourglass at the top-right of your screen or simply hold down the command key and hit the space bar. If you’re not aware, Spotlight is a built-in macOS feature for finding pretty much anything on your computer. I’m sure Alfred is a delightfully helpful chap with far more functionality (and I promise I’ll try him out one day), but for a simple, somewhat lazy user like myself, Spotlight is perfect. But I do use Spotlight in macOS pretty much constantly.
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