Hot Tip Tuesday: PopClip

A handy thingy that appears when you select text

PopClip is a tool that offers actions and shortcuts you can perform on any text you can select with your cursor. It’s awesome, and it’s probably more useful than it sounds. Here are a few ways I like to use it.

Instantly change capitalization

With PopClip you can:

• Get instant info on your selection like character or word count
• Run application actions like add to calendar, add to to-do list, check spelling, and look up in dictionary
• Send the selected text to any number of apps like Google Translate, Evernote, or Slack
• Manipulate your text selection by changing capitalization, adding or removing commas, hyphenating, etc

It’s incredibly flexible and there’s a huge collection of actions and extensions to choose from. My most common uses for PopClip are to measure character/word count or to add the selected text to my calendar or to-do list.

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PopClip is free to try at pilotmoon.com/popclip

This is not a paid endorsement, I’m just a fan.