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Membro (2006)
German to Dutch
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Jan 10, 2025

As translators, we manipulate text every day. Here is a collection of handy tools for Mac users:


  • Launchers like: Alfred, QuickSilver, LaunchBar, Raycast
  • Macro tools like: Keyboard Maestro, Keyboard Cowboy
  • Services like: Devon WordService, TextSoap, Esse, Text Workflow, Textadept, TextLab


The launchers not only allow case conversions but also offer access to AI and translation engines (even Apple Translate).

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As translators, we manipulate text every day. Here is a collection of handy tools for Mac users:


  • Launchers like: Alfred, QuickSilver, LaunchBar, Raycast
  • Macro tools like: Keyboard Maestro, Keyboard Cowboy
  • Services like: Devon WordService, TextSoap, Esse, Text Workflow, Textadept, TextLab


The launchers not only allow case conversions but also offer access to AI and translation engines (even Apple Translate).

My personal favorite is absolutely Keyboard Maestro. It offers actions for case conversion and many other text manipulations. The forum is very helpful and there are examples of macros for using AI and translation engines.

As an example I'll list the text manipulations that WordService offers:


• All Caps
• Decode Tabs
• Encode Tabs
• Initial Caps Of Sentences
• Insert Contents Of Path
• Insert Long Date
• Insert Long Date & Time
• Insert Short Date
• Insert Short Date & Time
• Insert Time
• Lowercase
• Mac- to Windows-Encoding
• Macintosh Line Endings
• Reformat
• Remove Attachments (not sure if this is text manipulation...)
• Remove Line Endings
• Remove Links
• Remove Multiple Feeds
• Remove Multiple Spaces
• Remove Quotes
• Rotate13
• Shift Left
• Shift Right
• Smart Quotes
• Sort Lines Ascending
• Sort Lines Descending
• Statistics...
• Straight Quotes
• Trim Line Beginnings
• Trim Line Endings
• Trim Lines
• Unix Line Endings
• Windows Line Endings
• Windows- to Mac-Encoding ▲ Collapse
 
CafeTran Trainer
CafeTran Trainer
Netherlands
Membro (2006)
German to Dutch
+ ...
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Keyboard Cowboy Jan 10, 2025

As for the name "Keyboard Cowboy", I've just read that it's not really a clever name:

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Text manipulation tools for macOS






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