Quickly Save Text with Text Clippings

Drag-and-drop seems second nature on the Mac. From opening files to moving them–drag-and-drop is often the easiest method.

One feature you may not have known is dragging and dropping selected text. Not only can you drag-and-drop text in to other Applications–but you can quickly save your selected text to the Desktop.

Select some text and drag it to your desktop. OS X will save this for easy access later.

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Submitted on October 28, 2007 at 11:07 pm - Quickly Save Text with Text Clippings was written by Brad Jasper - There have been 2 comments - Categorized in Easy Tips, OS X Tips

2 Responses to “Quickly Save Text with Text Clippings”

Omer Zach

I use this one pretty often, though I wish Apple could have made the clipping viewer much stronger...I can't even copy-paste out of it. October 29th, 2007 at 12:15 am
Brad

It seems you can copy-paste out of it--it just doesn't show the selection. I'm not sure why Apple decided to do this--but select the text you want to copy then press Command+C.

Nothing will be highlighted, but the text will be copied. October 29th, 2007 at 12:27 am