I was watching the WWDC keynote yesterday, and it striked me that Apple added a very jump-bar-like behaviour to Spotlight: you can use aliases (although these seem to be created automatically) and give commands to interact with apps.
I’m not aware of any other software, aside from coding apps, that uses this kind of behaviour. Not at least in creative apps.
It looks to me that it’ll be the kind of functionality that will only work reliably with macOS apps and some third parties that only develop for macOS, so its utility might be limited, but since I use the Jump bar all the time, I see this as a welcome addition.
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Yes, Spotlight has basically become the Jump Bar!
There’s actually a lot of very useful functionality here, including Clipboard History, and being able to trigger Shortcuts (which can themselves include AI instructions).
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This got me excited too. I wonder if the Dorico clipboard would be compatible with this. I guess it has to be some kind of native implementation of the clipboard to work like that, and I don’t know if QT or Dorico works like this for other things like text.
If you Filter lyrics and copy them, then they go on the Universal Clipboard.
Selections of “Dorico data”, e.g. multiple objects aren’t understood by the OS.
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That was my suspicion! Which makes sense. Dorico data doesn’t make sense outside Dorico.
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