There's a new preference to focus a window when you right- or middle-click in it. Add support for IntelliJ IDEA, VSCodium, and Sublime Text 4 as Semantic History editors. There's a new 'Composer' feature that lets you quickly open a scratchpad to enter a command. You can now swipe with two or three fingers between tabs, like in Safari. Interact: Do more with your Contacts! Interact’s unique Scratchpad makes it a breeze to create rich, complete contact records on your iPhone and iPad.
I often create records in Contacts.app on my Mac from those blocks of text every adult has at the bottom of their emails. It involves a lot of copying and pasting back and forth, as I’ve found Data Detectors in Mail don’t often get things the way I want them.
Now there’s a Mac app that makes this common task a lot faster: Interact Scratchpad. Made by developer and part-time wizardry camp Agile Tortoise, its a menubar app that includes a text field. Copy that block of contact info into it, and it sorts out what’s what then allows you to add a new contact to your database quickly. Greg’s video shows it off nicely.
Interact Scratchpad is $4.99 on the Mac App Store. I’ve been super impressed with it, and I think you will be, too.
Today Agile Tortoise released a new Mac App, Interact Scratchpad (website)(Mac App store). One of the best features on the Interact for iOS app is the scratchpad, where you can paste any address-related clump of text and the application sorts it out for you. It’s way faster than manually adding a contact and now that same scratchpad is available in the menu bar on on your Mac.
Interact Scratchpad Worksheet
In addition to helping me sort out somebody else’s poorly formatted address information, the Interact Scratchpad is also an easy way to capture address information on your Mac as someone gives it to you over the telephone. You don’t have to fiddle with clicking on fields. Just type in the text and let the app do the rest.
When you’re done, you can share the contact data into your contact database. You can even pick which Contacts Group, the new contact goes in.
Not surprisingly, Agile Tortoise, did a great job with this app. I bought it as soon as it went on sale. Check out the developer’s video below.
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