I’ve spent a few evenings over the past two weeks building a fun Mac app 👨💻
While editing text in any app, I can press a shortcut to open a panel and pick a saved command which will use AI to transform the text. For one-off commands, I simply type instructions into the panel.
I wonder if Sky supersedes the Mac app I'm working on 🤔
I wouldn't mind if it does.
Sky looks like a modern-day Shortcuts powered by AI, and that looks great. I genuinely just want to accelerate my text writing, and if Sky can do that and other things too, that's amazing.
Over the course of my career, I've had three distinct moments in which I saw a brand-new app and immediately felt it was going to change how I used my computer – and they were all about empowering people to do more with their devices. I had that feeling the first time I tried Editorial,
I've found a reliable way to read and update text across apps, including Slack, even when messages contain emoji.
It involves a roundtrip to the pasteboard, but it consistently gives the best results.
A few small hacks made it all work somewhat smoothly 😄
Thought I'd explore building a custom Input Method to see if that would have any benefits for my Accelerated Input app, e.g., providing a better way to locate the caret on the screen.
However, in true Apple fashion, this API is barely documented, and debugging these extensions is near impossible.
I've gotten the input method to show up in System Settings, but I can't really get it to do anything meaningful 😕
Accelerated Input allows you to create prompts that transform text and run them from any text input, just like I'm doing in this video.
I’m wondering if I should launch a beta of this. Is it interesting to you, or did I solve a problem just for myself? 😄🚀
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