extrakto

Hi HN! Textracto is a macOS app (14+) that lets you effortlessly copy text, even when it's unselectable. Option-Space lets you fuzzy-find any text on screen, then select it or copy it to your clipboard, without ever using the mouse. I'm often asked to get IDs out of screenshots, and I like using extrakto (https://github.com/laktak/extrakto/) for copying text in my terminal, so why not have the same thing for the rest of my screen? It combines two sources. The Apple AX API is the first pass. At the same time, the Apple Vision API OCRs the screen to capture text from the parts that don't play well with AX, or that are actually images. Both stream into the palette as they get recognized and deduplicated, so even with a slow AX tree, Textracto is still fast. Permissions: Screen Recording to read the screen, Accessibility to read exact charact

My two favorite tmux QoL improvements are enabling seamless navigation between neovim and tmux (there are many plugins but i use this one https://github.com/aserowy/tmux.nvim) and extrakto which lets you fuzzy select anything in the tmux buffer and insert into the cursor or copy it to the clipboard. (https://github.com/laktak/extrakto)

Not to forget https://github.com/laktak/extrakto (similar to copycat) and https://github.com/laktak/tome

My current secrets: * cht.sh is a great way to avoid a lot of this stuff - there's a commandline tool as well * usable cli ai setup: simonw's llm (https://github.com/simonw/llm) + openrouter (https://github.com/simonw/llm-openrouter) + free models (https://openrouter.ai/models?max_price=0) + glow (https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow) + adding this to your .rc file: function lm { local input="$*" llm -s 'Answer as short and concise as possible' ${input} | glow } Here's an example, $ lm "ssh command to forward the port 5050 on user@remote to my localhost:7001" ssh -L 7001:localhost:5050 user@remote $ Now for a sophisticated use-case I have a small tmux program where I can capture what's on the pane, enter a prompt and it will query

For me personally tmux giver minor improvements (some of them are done by some terminals, some are not), e.g.: * Text selection using variuos shortcuts (usually I use it only for URL): https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-copycat * FZF autocompletion from output, e.g. in case I want to diff some file I see changed in `git status`: https://github.com/laktak/extrakto

Only glanced at it but didn't see it mention 'V' which selects rows rather than characters. Which can be quite useful. There are also tmux plugins to make some operations smoother. https://github.com/fcsonline/tmux-thumbs Like keyboard driven browsers uses hints, so file paths, git SHAs etc. are highlighted using a small hint and if you press it it is copied. https://github.com/laktak/extrakto Fuzzy search in current pane to insert/copy things of interest.

I'm using extrakto[0] for it, so far it works nice. [0]: https://github.com/laktak/extrakto

Try tmux with my extrakto https://github.com/laktak/extrakto