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Text Clippings are great. One unappreciated feature is how well they preserve text formatting. I did some testing and found that copy paste between apps often didn’t preserve text formatting such as font, bold, etc. Text Clippings worked much better than the clipboard at transferring formatted text between apps.
 
I don't use this much, but happened to use it last week on BeOS. BeOS has been great for my productivity thus far, and they haven't updated the UI on me a dozen times this year.
 
Very very useful feature. It is simple and easy to use too. Happy to have this feature on macOS!!
 
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In other news, the sentence "To create a Text Clipping, simply highlight any piece of text, then hold left-click and drag it with your mouse to your Desktop or an open Finder window" just became the #1 text clipping file to be found on the desktops of Mac computers around the world :)
 
Another bad things about macOS, when you select a text and left click it, you can't immediately move your mouse to move that text. You must wait a second before doing that, otherwise, it will just select more text... Simple things that apple does it wrong and is so proud to fix it
 


In macOS, a Text Clipping is a selection of text that you've dragged from an application to another location on your Mac, where it becomes a unique kind of standalone file.

The relatively little-known feature has been around since at least Mac OS 9, and it offers a convenient way to save out pieces of text from pretty much anywhere for later use in another app or document.

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To create a Text Clipping, simply highlight any piece of text, then hold left-click and drag it with your mouse to your Desktop or an open Finder window.

This saves the highlighted text – including any rich text formatting – as a .textclipping file named after the first few words of text that you selected, but you can easily rename it to make it more identifiable.

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To use the selected text in another file like a Pages document, drag the Text Clipping into the open document and the text will be automatically pasted wherever the cursor is located.

You can paste the clipping in the same way into all sorts of open files and apps, including browser search engines, Mail compose windows, Xcode projects, and more.

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To quickly view the contents of a Text Clipping, simply select the file and invoke Quick Look with a tap of the spacebar.

You can also double-click a Text Clipping to view the text in a dedicated window, and even highlight and copy (Command-C) just a snippet of the text from this window for pasting elsewhere.

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Text clippings can speed up many repetitive tasks, making things like reusing email/letter templates and code snippets a cinch. If clippings become indispensable to your workflow, consider creating a dedicated folder to store them, otherwise they can quickly clutter up your desktop.

Bear in mind that Text Clippings store content in a unique format that may not be compatible across all platforms or devices. So if you're sharing clippings, it's best to convert them into standard text formats to ensure they can be opened elsewhere.

Article Link: Quick macOS Tip: Create and Use Text Clippings for Productivity
Is it me or does this not seem to work with any of the MS365 apps? More specifically Outlook & TEAMS ? e.g. If I highlight some text in TEAMS, pause a second, then click with one finger and drag the text on to my desktop,
1) the highlight disappears
2) a new highlight starts from where I clicked with one finger.

Every other app that I've tried seems to work just fine. But not the MS365 apps.
 
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