As on the Mac to make excerpts from the text, using the built-in function Summaries
Tips Makradar / / December 19, 2019
OS X has a lot of interesting and little-known features - one of these is a feature summary. It exists in OS X for a long time, but often users are not even aware of its existence. And in the latest versions of the OS, Apple removed the default hotkey to use notes, and probability to stumble on them has become even smaller.
Very vain, because with the help of lecture notes can be made extracts from longer texts, with it's great automating the process. About how all this happens, I will tell you today's article.
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How to enable Summaries
To activate go to the system settingsIn section Keyboard and open the tab Keyboard shortcuts. Select sidebar services and scrolling the list in the next socket - find the item summaries We include him tick. Now you need to assign a keyboard shortcut to use the Summary, choose any convenient for you.
How to use Abstracts
After turning on the hot keys on and the service itself Abstracts and now we will be able to take advantage of her. Since this is the service, it will work in any OS X Application View, Mail, Safari, Pages, Byword etc. Here's how:
- Select the text from which you want to make a synopsis
- Open the current application menu
- Choosing services — Abstract (or Services — SummarizeIf agliyskom application)
You can also start Abstracts highlighting the text and right click to select services — Abstract. This will open a window with the created notes, and you will be able to work with him.
How to work with synopsis
The principle of operation is to reduce the synopsis of the text fragment, by "screening" of the sentence or paragraph, if the text is so voluminous. At the bottom there is a slider in the form of a percentage scale, moving it, we "squeeze" out of all of our text, "water." For Apple credit, it should be noted that the algorithm works quite well - automatically can significantly shorten a long article without losing the contents of sense. However, with different texts Summaries function works differently: be wary to squeeze in articles small volume, because it can be cut off most of the text, without which it will not be understood by the previous fragments. text parts can be added to improve the processing of results (already selected fragments of you) - it is useful to us, and our shortcut. Please note that it will only work when Summaries are already running, ie you must first start the service notes.
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If you are the students or student, and you have to deal with tedious lectures or large amounts of text - you are sure to appreciate such a wonderful built-in function as Summaries!
P. S. I wonder what will happen if you try to make a summary of the immortal works of LN Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? Who should take note on the life hacking;)