Mac Writing Automation

⌥Space is pressed.

Capture screenfromScreenasfull screen
Recognize text in Cached Screenshot File Path
Translate OCR Text to English
Show Translated Text in a Rulr panel

Translate Screen Text

Capture, recognize, and translate text anywhere on your Mac screen.

⌥Space is pressed.

Get selected text
Write Selected Text to ~/Downloads/Rulr Notes.txt by appending to the end

Save Selected Text

Append selected text to a notes file from any supported app.

;translate is typed with matching case.

Get selected text
Translate Selected Text to English
Show Translated Text in a Rulr panel

Translate Selected Text

Translate selected text on your Mac and show the result.

;rulr is typed with matching case.

Ask for input titled Trim Text with message Enter a value to continue., and stop this flow when cancelled
Transform User Input using trim whitespace
Set clipboard to Text Result

Trim Text

Clean up entered text and copy it for pasting anywhere.

⌥V is pressed.

Convert Current Clipboard Content to plain text
Insert Plain Text into the frontmost application

Paste as Plain Text

Paste clipboard text without source formatting into the frontmost app with Option + V.

;note is typed with matching case.

Ask for input titled Quick Note with message What do you want to remember?, and stop this flow when cancelled
Write • User Input — Current Date and Time to ~/Documents/Quick Notes.txt by appending to the end
Show a notification titled Quick Note with message Saved to your notes file., and play sound

Quick Note

Capture a thought without leaving the current app.

⌥Space is pressed.

Recognize text on screenfromScreenasfull screen
Set clipboard to OCR Text

Copy Text from Your Screen

Recognize and copy text from anywhere on your Mac screen.

⌥R is pressed.

Make Google Chrome frontmost

The current time is at or after 8:00 AM
The current time is before 12:00 PM

Open a new Google Chrome tab with https://scholar.google.com/
Open a new Google Chrome tab with https://www.notion.so/
Show a notification titled Research Workspace with message Research sources are ready., and do not play sound

The current time is at or after 1:00 PM
The current time is before 6:00 PM

Open a new Google Chrome tab with https://docs.google.com/
Open a new Google Chrome tab with https://drive.google.com/
Show a notification titled Research Workspace with message Writing sources are ready., and do not play sound

Chrome Research Workspace

Open the right Chrome research workspace for each work session.

The clipboard contents change.

Translate Text to English
Show Translated Text in a Rulr panel

Translate Clipboard

Translate copied text and show the result.

The frontmost application changes.

The application from Frontmost Application Changed is Safari
The application from Frontmost Application Changed is Google Chrome
The application from Frontmost Application Changed is Figma

Switch input method to ABC

Switch Input Method

Switch to a selected input method when an app becomes active.

⌥R is pressed.

Ask for input titled Process Text with message Enter text to process with the shell script., and stop this flow when cancelled
Run AppleScript using on run argv return item 1 of argv... with User Input, timeout 30 seconds, and stop this flow if unsuccessful
Show Script Result in a Rulr panel

Process Text with AppleScript

Process entered text with AppleScript and show the result.

⌥Space is pressed.

Get selected text
Transform Selected Text using URL encode
Set clipboard to Text Result

Encode Selected Text

Prepare selected text for use in a URL.

The clipboard contents change.

Transform Text using trim whitespace
Write • Text Result — Current Date and Time\n to ~/Documents/Research Notes.txt by appending to the end
Show a notification titled Research Capture with message Saved to Research Notes., and do not play sound

Research Capture

Trim copied research text and append it to your notes.

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Read text from ~/Documents/Research Draft.txt, up to 1 MB
Translate File Contents to English
Write Translated Text\n to ~/Documents/Translated Research.txt by appending to the end

Read, Translate, and Save

Read a file, translate it, and save the result.

⌥Y is pressed.

Get selected text
Translate Selected Text to English
Set clipboard to Translated Text

Translate selected text and place the result on the clipboard.

;addr is typed with matching case.

Insert Text Expansion into the frontmost application

Text Expansion

Expand a short typed trigger into reusable text.

⌥Space is pressed.

Get selected text
Transform Selected Text using uppercase
Set clipboard to Text Result
Paste the clipboard into the frontmost application

Uppercase Selected Text

Convert selected text to uppercase and replace it.

⌥E is pressed.

Transform Current Clipboard Text using URL encode
Insert Text Result into the frontmost application

Paste URL-Encoded Text

URL-encode clipboard text and paste the result into the frontmost app with one keyboard shortcut.

⌥M is pressed.

Run JavaScript in the current Google Chrome tab using (() => { const title = document.title.replace(/([\[\]\\])/g, '\\$1'); const url = window.location.href.replace(/>/g, '%3E'); return `[${title}](<${url}>)`; })() with a timeout of 30 seconds
Set clipboard to Script Result

Copy Page as Markdown Link

Copy the current Chrome page title and URL as a Markdown link.

Translate and Copy