July 22, 2020

📝 Copy without Citation in Books

Most of my reading happens in the Apple Books app. Whenever I find something that makes me reread it or teaches me something new, I add it to my journal. But when I select that text and hit copy, the app adds the citation info which I don’t want.

I was thinking of building a helper menu bar app for myself, but then I found a neat solution without installing any third-party software. In a nutshell, you create a Quick Action in Automator that receives the current text from iBooks and map the keyboard shortcut ⌘C to trigger the previously created action when pressed inside iBooks. See the post linked above for a step-by-step guide.

Until We Meet Again…
🖖 swap