If you'd like to get a hold of my Grammarly PopClip Extension, check out my repository on GitHub. PopClip then pastes the highlighted text into the text area, and Grammarly does its thing. Edit: Had a look, yes it does, so the next step is to play with the API a bit to figure out how we will use it in PopClip. So the first task is to research whether ChatGPT provides an API. I ended up creating a PopClip extension that takes the highlighted text, opens Chrome and creates a new tab, and then goes to a web page I create that just has a text area on it. What PopClip would need is an API for sending queries to ChatGPT. I couldn't have PopClip open the Grammarly app, create a new document, and then paste the text I had highlighted into the app for checking, but I did find another solution. The app doesn't take you to a blank document when you first open it, and there is no keyboard shortcut to create a new document. The problem I ran into is that Grammarly's desktop app is simple. I wanted to create a way for PopClip to take highlighted text and use Grammarly to check it. If you pay for Grammarly's service, you can also get plagiarism checking and a few other helpful features. It has an excellent web browser extension that will check text as you type it on websites. The best part of it is that you can create extensions for it to do whatever you want. You can tell it to copy, paste, search the web, and a whole slew of other things. You highlight some text, and PopClip brings up a small menu with some different options to choose from. PopClip reminds me of what happens when you hold your finger down on text on your iPhone, but completely customizable and for your Mac. I came across PopClip through a friend who found it on Brett Terpstra's website. For example, when you select a string of words, the popup menu will show actions that you’d perform on words (e.g., search in Google, cut/copy, word count).PopClip and Grammarly, what do they have in common? Not much, but they can be quite valuable when put together. This means that they are triggered when it makes sense for them to be available. Extensions are quick and easy to install/uninstall and they’re smart. Users and developers have created useful PopClip add-ons to popular third-party apps like Evernote, OmniFocus, and Skype, and it seems that a few new ones appear every month. In addition to the default set, there are currently over 100 extensions available, putting the actions you need-from image search to unit conversion-at your fingertips. It is the extra actions available through the PopClip extension library that make PopClip much more powerful and, for this user, essential. While the ability perform the actions shown in the screenshots above is nice, it frankly wouldn’t make it a must-have utility for most users. And importantly, PopClip is so well integrated and feels so native that you’d swear it was part of the operating system. Since I spend much of my time at the computer dealing with text (writing, editing, copying, pasting, formatting, searching for terms, etc.), any piece of software that can reduce friction as I manipulate text is a plus. Unlike some of Apple’s own iOS-ification which seems more cosmetic than truly useful, PopClip scratches a productivity itch right where I need it-with text handling. Nevertheless, the consensus seems to be that some degree of OS convergence is inevitable. And some features were removed: the iWork productivity suite ( Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) was overhauled “to support a unified file format between OS X and iOS 7 versions” but the removal of key features made quite a few users unhappy. Some features were added: the five-finger pinch gesture on the trackpad of a MacBook Pro brings up the iOS-style view of the applications via Launchpad, and since OS X 10.7, “natural scrolling” has been the default way to scroll. He can be reached through the center’s website: a longtime Mac user who does not own an iOS device, I have been somewhat reluctant to embrace the steady “iOS-ification” of the Mac-you know, the aesthetic and functional bits that were introduced to OS X that borrowed from iOS (iPhone, iPad). [ This is a guest post by Jim Cracraft, a Language Teaching Specialist and technology coordinator at Vanderbilt University‘s English Language Center (ELC), which offers English language support to individuals who have a first language other than English.
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