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A Tour of My PopClip Extensions

• John

Earlier this week, as I was digging through the details of Sindre Sorhus’ Scratchpad app, I noticed that there was a PopClip extension available. There are very few Mac apps I’ve used as long as PopClip. It’s a simple utility that pops up a menu directly above selected text, just like iOS and iPadOS do. What makes the app so compelling is that in most circumstances, you’re probably using a mouse or trackpad to select text, making a pop-up menu the perfect way to do something with that text.

Over the years, I’ve used a bunch of different PopClip extensions and even built my own, but I’ve settled on a core set that matches the apps where I tend to send snippets of text. Back in 2018, when I named the app one of my must-have apps of 2018, my PopClip lineup was spartan, consisting of relatively few extensions that I used constantly. Most of those are still part of my PopClip extension lineup today, but the list has grown, so I thought I’d offer an update.