New in mynd for Mac: quick capture and clipping
mynd for Mac 1.11 just shipped. The number looks big, but it’s really only the fourth update for Mac.
It’s a small release — no major features — but it fixes a problem that’s been around since the very first version and was never quite fixed right. What I mainly want to cover here are the two features that arrived in 1.10 (and I’ll gradually add detailed how-tos for various features to the user manual on the site).
First, quick capture and clipping.
Click the palm icon in the menu bar, or press opt+m, to bring up the input bar:
- Click the clip button or press Enter to clip the text on your clipboard
- Type a thought, then press the send button or Enter to save it
You never have to open mynd’s main window. Once it becomes second nature it’s wonderfully smooth — it doesn’t break your flow, and the little “the thing I just thought of is already saved” feeling actually deepens your focus in the moment.
Write-only quick notes — capturing without looking back — make up about ninety percent of how I record things in this system. They don’t just keep me from forgetting; they bring a kind of completion dopamine that quietly adds up. It’s the same on phone and computer. This used to require setting up a Shortcut; I’m glad to have finally found a way that works out of the box for most people.
The other new feature is dragging a note into a collection — something that plays to the Mac’s space and input strengths.
- Hold option, drag a note onto a collection in the sidebar, and let go to add it.
- Option-click a note to enter multi-select; you can keep scrolling as you select, then drag the lot onto a collection to add them all at once.
- Beyond collections, multi-select also works on the built-in lists in the sidebar, like highlights and to-dos.
This version also adds reminders and multi-select. And it now asks you to choose where your documents are stored when you first launch it (skipping that step got the app rejected once).