Getting selected text

[knippers]

There are many workflows I'd love to make that need the basic requirement of operating on whatever text is selected in the front most app. I've googled around and haven't found a straightforward way of making this possible. Anybody know how I might be able to grab the currently selected text when triggering a workflow?

[Tyler Eich]

There are many workflows I'd love to make that need the basic requirement of operating on whatever text is selected in the front most app. I've googled around and haven't found a straightforward way of making this possible. Anybody know how I might be able to grab the currently selected text when triggering a workflow?

 

Hotkeys are very capable of this. See here:

 

Hope this helps

[knippers]

Ahhh, how did I miss that!? Thanks for pointing it out, exactly what I needed.