I’ve spent a few evenings the past two weeks building a fun Mac app 👨‍💻 While editing text in any app, like Slack, I can press a shortcut to open a panel and pick a saved command which will use AI to transform the text. For one-off commands, I... type instructions into the panel.show more

Here are the commands I've saved so far 👇

With this text transformation, I wanted the resulting text to be a bit over the top to showcase the app. However, I've found that, with the right instructions, the AI can generate text that maintains the original tone of voice, so it doesn't sound so robotic.

One thing I spent (way) too long on was making the panel appear near the text input I’m typing into. I managed to do it using the Accessibility API, but it was surprisingly difficult to get it working somewhat (somewhat) well enough 😄

Quite pleased with this icon for my app 😃

Took another swing at the effect shown while running a command and built it using SwiftUI mesh gradients. I think this is 💯% better.

Working on the onboarding flow for my new Mac app, and I think I've got the first screen pinned down. It was a great excuse to have some fun with SwiftUI mesh gradients 😄

Cute little view to illustrate a keyboard shortcut 😃

Here's the onboarding flow for the Mac app I'm working on 👇

Maybe Sky supersedes the app I'm working on 🤔 I kinda wouldn't mind if it does. Sky looks like a modern-day Shortcuts powered by AI and that's great. I genuinely just want to accelerate my text writing and if Sky can do that and more, that's amazing!

Noticed Slack is either no longer or not consistently including emoji in the accessibility value when sending messages. It worked a week ago when I last tested. If this sticks, my Mac app won’t be able to preserve emoji when interacting with Slack 😕

I've found a reliable way to read and update text across apps, including Slack, even when messages contain emoji. It involves a roundtrip to the pasteboard, but it consistently gives the best results. A few small hacks made it all work somewhat smoothly 😄

Just added an optional confirmation step to Accelerated Input, with another optional setting to highlight differences between the original text and the transformed text 😃

The confirmation step is configurable per command, of course. Highlighting the differences in a combination step can be a quick way to verify the text created by the AI before it's sent off.

Accelerated Input allows you to create prompts that transform text and execute them from any text input, just like I'm doing in this video. Should I launch a beta? Is it interesting to you, or did I solve a problem only for myself? 😄🚀

Probably won't move Accelerated Input to use Apple's new Foundation Models (and as such Apple Intelligence) any time soon. Foundation Models fail to translate my text to Spanish, but OpenAI, with its larger models and reasoning, can do it. #WWDC25

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