![]() If I save out a PDF file in my Invoices folder, a Hazel rule automatically places the PDF on a new Dropshelf so I can easily attach it with my email. No more tunneling through my hard drive to find the “Screenshots” folder. I have instant access to all my screenshots to drag into my blog post. ![]() But, with Hazel, each and every screenshot that appears in my “Screenshots” folder is automatically placed on its own separate Dropshelf. Now, before Dropshelf, I would have to open the hard drive volume and navigate to the Screenshots folder in order to work with those files. And because I hate clutter on my desktop, I have a Hazel rule to dump all my screenshots into a folder called “Screenshots”, nested away in one of my many hard drives. I take a lot of screenshots in the course of writing posts like this. Let’s take a look at one particular use case in my workflow. Super convenient! Imagine having instant access to a swath of lorem ipsum text, always at the ready? You can, with Dropshelf.Īnd if you have Hazel, the automated organizer from Noodlesoft, your life gets even better – because you can use your Hazel rules to send files to Dropshelf automagically. With this extension, you can straight away save your selected contents to a new Dropshelf. For example, if you already have PopClip, you can download the Dropshelf extension. But it’s true power lies when you combine it with other apps. Optionally, you can even save the clipping as a standalone HTML file.ĭropshelf works super well as a standalone app. To convert your web text selection to plain text (for copying into Pages or TextWrangler), you simply click the HTML descriptor under the clipping in Dropshelf and a pull-down menu appears.įrom there, choose “Convert to Rich Text Format (RTF)” or “Convert to Plain Text”. If you drag text from a webpage over to Dropshelf, it will save in HTML format. On my set up, I have the right and bottom edges active. In the Behaviors tab, you can toggle the edges you want to use with Dropshelf. Did I mention that Dropshelf supports multi-monitor setups? (I guess I just did.) And yeah, it does a great job at that, too. Other options you can control include the color of the shelf, start at login, and auto check for updates. By default, when you remove an item from Dropshelf, the shelf disappears, but you can change that behavior to keep your shelf’s content resident with a click of a radio button in Dropshelf’s preferences. Pretty simple in concept, right?Įach time you drag a new text clipping or file, a new Dropshelf is created. Put an item on the shelf and then take it off the shelf when you want to use it. Here’s how it works: Drag a file over to either the top, left or right edges of your screen. What’s one Mac productivity app you couldn’t live without? That answer would be a difficult one for me, but on my shortlist would certainly be Dropshelf, from PilotMoon (makers of PopClip).ĭropshelf, currently at version 1.21, is a productivity app that lets you save text clippings, web snippets and files for easy access.
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