OneNote on the iPad Pro is an exceptional tool for note-taking, especially when writing using the Apple Pencil. However, OneNote on the Mac currently does not support copy-pasting of hand-drawn content to other apps. To address this oversight, OneNoteGrab 1.0 is a simple utility that automatically extracts a PNG image from the data copied to the clipboard by OneNote on the Mac, so that you can copy-paste your hand-drawn content into other macOS applications.

Use the lasso selection tool in OneNote for macOS to precisely select the hand-drawn content. Then hit ⌘ C to copy.

With OneNoteGrab running. a PNG image will be automatically placed on the clipboard for pasting into other macOS apps.

This utility makes it easy to use hand-drawn content created in OneNote on your iPad Pro or Galaxy Note or Surface Pro, in your macOS authoring apps like Scrivener or Ulysses.

Get OneNoteGrab 1.0 on the Downloads page, for free.

Would you like to write more, write fast, and write well?

Then this is the book for you. In "Dragon Professional Individual 15: Fast Track to Prolific Writing on Windows", you will learn how to use the Dragon application to convert your speech into text with speed and precision.
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You'll also learn:

• how to speak so your PC understands exactly what you say
• what you must remember in order to quickly edit your work
• how to train Dragon to build an Assistant that's in tune with your writing style
• how to zip ahead to a first draft even if you dread getting started on a blank page
• how to work on your iPad while tapping into the power of Dragon on your PC
• how to build a workflow that makes you happy to write

Version 1.0 of this book covers Dragon Professional Individual version 15.3. The book is available on the Kindle store, and for a limited time, under the Kindle Unlimited subscription service.

Documoov is a macOS application for making movies out of PDFs.

Why would you want to do that? Well, a lot of good quality content is only available in PDFs. And once you've read or browsed through a PDF, you may only want to refer to a part of it anyway. Enter Documoov. Add narration to pages of your PDF, and export as a movie. Then you can share the movie or carry it on your iPhone whenever you need to review it. All the insights you gleaned from the PDF can thus be played back on demand.

Here are a few creative ways to use Documoov:

• Add voiceover narration to presentation PDFs
• Summarize sketchnotes and handwritten notes into a video
• Record awesome story time videos for your kids!
• Make educational videos rapidly from illustrated books

Documoov 1.0 is available for macOS 10.11 El Capitan and later.

​Get a 7-day fully functional trial version of the app from the Documoov product page or the full version from the Mac App Store.

SafariBooksOnline.com is an excellent digital library of technical and business books. This tip covers the steps involved in converting The Sketch Handbook to PDF in a few easy steps.

1. Ensure that PDFSpeech is set to Append PDFs.
2. Open the book's title page in Safari.
3. Print, and send as PDF to the PDFSpeech application
4. Use navigation on SafariBooksOnline.com to go to next chapter (or the right arrow shortcut key)
5. Use View > Show Reader in Safari for clean layout 
6. Print, and send as PDF to the PDFSpeech application.

Repeat steps 4-6 for each of the 12 chapters in this book. For long chapters, use a large custom paper size (such as 12x80 inch) to allow more content to fit on one page, and thus avoid unnecessary scrolling across page breaks when reading the PDF in PDFSpeech.

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But why create a PDF Pack at all? A few good reasons:

• PDFs are easy to annotate, from notes to highlighting to freeform markup. 
• PDFs are a universal format, and can be viewed as expected on any device.
• PDF Packs remain editable - you can add or remove pages, and even edit the table of contents using an app like PDFOutliner.
• Using PDFoo, you can link into a precise position in the PDF for taking notes externally. For example, collect links to several graphic design "recipes" across several PDFs in your favorite note-taking app.
• You can use PDFSpeech to zip through the PDF Pack efficiently using text-to-speech technology.