Open PopClip without a selection? [Intermediate staging area]

PopClip
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A bit of a stretch question:

Is there a way to open the PopC.lip popup without a selection? For example via the keyboard shortcut? It could then instead on the selection operate on the clipboard…

Sounds weird? Well, I have some use cases:

  • Appending selections in a PDF to a longer (more precise) search string and then initiating the search via PopClip.

or

  • Appending selections from an email to a nice “date time title location” string and then initiating to add this string via PopClip to your favourite Calendar app.

The common theme is: You use PopClip first to assemble a useful clipboard and then you use PopClip again to act upon the clipboard.

PS: Writing this post led me to Invoking Popclip with no Selected Text, but I don’t have a way to bring up any PopClip pop-up without selected text. – Do I do something wrong?

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You can use the shortcut to invoke PopClip. I have mine set to ⌥ +P. Pressing that even without anything selected shows popclip

see empty page no selection

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Too much info but in case you need a script to invoke it

AppleScript

tell application "PopClip" to appear
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Yes I know what you mean – like an intermediate buffer or staging area where you can edit what goes to PopClip.

I have long thought about this and wanted something like that too. Haven’t quite figure out how it will work, as in the precise mechanics of it. Especially bearing in mind overall ethos of simiplicity. Ideas welcome.

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