Productivity
Clip Actions
Press a hotkey and get smart actions for what you copied.
Get for Mac.dmg · 394 KB · or download .zip
- Category
- Productivity
- Requires
- macOS 13+
- Size
- 394 KB
- Price
- Free
Preview
About Clip Actions
Clip Actions shows smart actions for whatever you just copied.
What it does
- Hotkey. Press Option+Space to open a panel in the middle of the screen.
- Detects what you copied. JSON, CSV, a long text, code or plain text.
- Actions. Format or minify JSON, find a syntax error, make a Markdown table, a short summary, action items, change case, Base64 and URL encoding.
- Keyboard first. Arrow keys and Return choose an action, and Return again copies the result.
Notes
The actions are built-in rules plus Apple's language tools, not a language model, so summaries are extracts of your own text.
Information
- Developer
- SiliconDevKit (generated by AI from a prompt)
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
- macOS 13 or later, Apple silicon. Apple silicon Macs only (M1 or later), not Intel
- Size
- 394 KB (.dmg)
- Version
- 1.0
- Price
- Free
- Signing
- Ad-hoc signed, not notarized
The prompt behind it
This app was generated from the prompt below. Paste it into SiliconDevKit to build your own version, then change it however you like.
Build a menu bar app called Clip Actions. A global hotkey (Option+Space, registered with the Carbon RegisterEventHotKey API so it needs no special permission) opens a Spotlight-style floating panel in the middle of the screen. It reads the clipboard text, works out what it is, and shows action pills for it: JSON (Format as JSON, Minify, Find syntax error with the line and column), CSV or tab-separated data (Make a Markdown table, Make JSON), a long text or chat thread (a 1-sentence TL;DR and an Action items list, both extractive, built with NaturalLanguage sentence tokenizing, NLEmbedding sentence ranking and pattern matching for to-dos, names and dates), code (Find unbalanced brackets and quotes), and for any text: change case, trim whitespace, count words, URL decode, and Base64 encode and decode. Arrow keys and Return pick an action, the result shows in the panel, and Return again copies it back to the clipboard and closes the panel. Escape closes it. No Dock icon. Say in the settings that the actions are built-in rules, not a language model.
Opening it for the first time
- Open the .dmg and drag Clip Actions onto the Applications folder.
- Open it from Applications. macOS may say it can’t check the app for malicious software. Click Done.
- Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. This is needed once. Why this happens. To share an app without the warning, see how to notarize it.
