How to make any text selection into a Stickie Note
Here’s something cool/useless I just picked up on Reddit, so I figured I would share the fruit of knowledge with you. Have you ever wanted to select a bit of text and immediately create a Stickie Note note out of it? No? Well, here’s how anyway!
Step 1: Select some text from your favorite website. We suggest Macenstein. (You can actually select text in ANY app, not just Safari).
Step 2: Press Command + Shift + Y
Step 3: Boom! There is no step 3!
So, why would you want to do this? I’m not sure. The person in the Reddit post was looking for a way to mimic the “Print Selection” feature they enjoyed as a Windows user. This work around allowed them to do just that by moving a text clipping into a Stickie Note, and then simply hitting Command +P to print.
Thanks A lot it s a great shortcut , it will save me alot of time while taking notes etc . Thanks again .
Did you know that cmd + shift + L will open your selection in google? And that ctrl + cmd + D gives you the definition of the word you’re hovering over (doesn’t work everywhere though) ?
Sometimes when I read all these things, only one thought comes to mind… Did u guys just bought a copy of Missing Manual?
There are so many more tips & tricks like all these…
These things work in any Cocoa based app, if I’m not mistaken.
Oh, and the text has to either be or inherit from NSString. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think that’s what the requirements are. So if an app is java based or something, I don’t think it’ll work.
Winteregel thanks for the new add ons . is there a any site where i can learn cool stuff like this for my mac . Thanks everyone.
Just tried it – nothing happened ..
Am I the only person that uses stickies every day? Stickies and mail are the only two apps I’ve ever set to launch on login.
Doesn’t work for me either!
Since Apple lets you install your own services (and assign keyboard shortcuts to them), somebody has a made a “print selection” service that you can download:
http://www.schubert-it.com/free/
If you go to system preferences, then keyboard, and keyboard shortcuts, you can select services from there and set a keyboard shortcut for the “print selection” service you just installed.