Recipes & chains
Some chains we've found useful. Each one is a sequence of single-key prompts after the trigger.
Fix grammar in a Slack message
select message → ⌃⌘G → grammar fixed in place
The simplest recipe — Quick Paste with Fix Grammar. ~600ms with ChatGPT, ~200ms with Ollama. Zero context switches.
Translate Finnish into a Business email
⌃⌘C → T → E → R → B → F → E
| Key | Step |
|---|---|
⌃⌘C | Trigger ClipSlop with selection |
T E | Translate → English |
R B | Rewrite → Business |
F E | Format → Email |
Five keystrokes after the trigger. Ready to paste with ⌘C.
Explain a stack trace in plain English
copy stack trace → ⌃⌘V → D → S
| Key | Step |
|---|---|
⌃⌘V | Process clipboard |
D S | Dev → Explain Stack Trace |
Get a plain-English summary plus the likely root cause. Add A → S (Analyze → Summary) on top to compress further.
Code → Documented + Beautified
select code → ⌃⌘C → D → A → D → B
| Key | Step |
|---|---|
⌃⌘C | Trigger |
D A | Dev → Add Comments |
D B | Dev → Beautify Code |
Annotates the code with inline comments, then runs the beautifier. Branch (←) if you want only one of the two.
OCR a slide → TL;DR
⇧⌘2 → drag region → A → T
| Key | Step |
|---|---|
⇧⌘2 | Screen capture (OCR) |
A T | Analyze → TL;DR |
Useful for webinar slides, video frames, anything where text isn't selectable. See Screen OCR.
Build your own
Chains are just keypresses — there's nothing to save. If you find one you keep using, the cleaner solution is to bind a single-prompt Quick Paste shortcut for the result you want. Or generate a custom prompt that does all the steps in one model call — see Generate prompts with AI.