---
title: "I Wish We Had Tear-Off Hotbars"
slug: i-wish-we-had-tear-off-hotbars
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collection: Stream
published_at: 2024-12-17T00:00:00.000Z
updated_at: 2025-01-06T00:00:00.000Z
tags: 
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  - Tools
  - Apps
author: "Nerdy Momo Cat"
---

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One of the major reasons I avoid screenshots/videos in my posts generally is because of how cumbersome it is to take them. And I wish I could kinda "tear off" commands from different apps and place it onto a temporary menu bar.

For example, when I was writing this post [![](https://nerdymomocat.github.io/_astro/fog_pink.CwjxoAvy_Z1EYdWV.svg)All The Menu Bar Weather Apps for MacOS](https://nerdymomocat.github.io/posts/all-the-menu-bar-weather-apps-for-macos/) — I really wanted to convert all screenshots to text. Why, you might ask? Because the workflow requires so many clicks in order.

So, I usually have my clop optimize on clipboard on. But given this required stitching of different images — I didn’t want to optimize each image and have it progressively get worse. So, this is what it looked like —

`Pause` auto-optimizations in Clop, then `show desktop` in Supercharge. Use Shottr to `capture any window` (note that this doesn't create a file). `Copy` the image in Shottr, then `capture additional windows` (like settings or preferences). `Open clipboard history` in Raycast (which doesn’t have a paste stack) multiple times to `Paste` all images into the last Shottr image, `turn optimization back on` in Clop, and `copy` the final image from Shottr.

Oh, now I want to generate image captions, here is what that looked like —

First, `paste` the image into Notion, then `open` ChatGPT and `paste` the image into ChatGPT to generate a caption. `Copy` the generated caption into Notion, `replace` line breaks using Shift+Enter, and finally `cut` and `paste` the text into the image caption field that is opened by a `click` on the caption button.

I wish there was a way to create a workflow hotbar on the go, one where I could put all the actions I need to take across various apps into one place, and then discard the hotbar. Sure, I can assign keyboard shortcuts to all these actions — but I possibly never need to use these actions again, and if I need to, I am not going to remember the shortcuts I assigned to them. I don’t even know if tear-off hotbars are possible in MacOS, but I wish they were.