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For the mac there's TextSniper which does just that.
On mac, I just do a quick screenshot and use the builtin OCR in Preview to select and copy text all the time.
There was a plug of smalldocs intro in that post, regarding that, Dont we need the md files on the wikis and documentations in the central project management tools, instead of client side anything?
Is that what you were getting at or something else?
There was a plug of smalldocs intro in that post, regarding that, Dont we need the md files on the wikis and documentations in the central project management tools, instead of client side anything?
SmallDocs person here, IMO the location of Markdown files and the reading of them are separate things. SmallDocs is just about reading not about storing. Eg if you are working in ~/code/my_project, and have a README.md, you (or your agent) can `sdoc README.md`. This opens up the file for reading (in the browser, but 100% privately). It doesn’t change the stored location of the Markdown file. Is that what you were get…
Software engineers drastically underestimates GUI - Web layouts, mobile app layouts, and even PDF layouts are non-trivial pieces of work to get right in all circumstances.
Nobody who has actually worked on those things think that. You might want to qualify if you're only talking about people who have never worked in this area. In my experience it's the NON software engineers who tend to underestimate the complexity
And the reason was that majority of backend engineers have never worked on frontend.
At almost all big companies, the team working on the frontend problem is relatively small +and that's how it should be).
> In my experience it's the NON software engineers who tend to underestimate the complexity
Yeah. That too as well.
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On mac, I just do a quick screenshot and use the builtin OCR in Preview to select and copy text all the time.
Textgrabber does that without needing a screenshot. Found it here on HN, never looked back.
There seems to be a product or two using that name: can you give a URL to the legitimate one?