Ulysses, Scrivener, Obsidian, or iA Writer on one flick. Snippets and templates as text-insert wedges. Pinned-document wedges for your current project. Keep your focus in the writing.
Most writing days cycle through the same short list. A main writing app — Ulysses, iA Writer, Scrivener, Obsidian, Drafts, Notion. A research surface — Safari or Arc, Zotero, Readwise. Something for capture — Drafts, Apple Notes. And messaging or email for sending drafts out. The list is small. The switching is constant.
Deep work mode wants no distraction. Spotlight pops up a bar at the top of the screen and breaks the line of attention. A radial menu appears and dismisses under the cursor without reorganizing the screen — there's nothing to read, nothing to scan, just a direction you already know.
The other thing writers do all day is send the same six or eight pieces of text. A short bio. A medium bio. A link to the portfolio. A Markdown frontmatter template. An email signoff. A stock reply for a pitch. Those belong on text-insert wedges.
Concrete wedge configurations for the way most writers actually work. Use them as four separate profiles, or fold them into one.
The default profile for a normal drafting day. Everything you reach for between sentences.
A sub-menu wedge that opens into your most-pasted text. Each child wedge inserts its text into the front app via Cmd+V.
For days that lean on reading rather than drafting. Pairs nicely with a Readwise clipping workflow.
For ship days. The admin URLs and tools you only touch when a piece is going out.
Send the same snippet by flicking a direction. The text pastes into the front app via Cmd+V, so it works in Ulysses, Obsidian, Mail, the Substack web editor — anywhere.
A wedge that opens your current manuscript or article in its native app. Works across Finder paths and cloud-synced files, so the wedge stays valid whether the doc lives in iCloud, Dropbox, or a local folder.
Last eight text clips on a sub-menu. Useful for the copy-paste-rearrange phase of drafting, and for moving quotes from research into the manuscript without losing earlier ones.
Wire any Shortcut to a wedge. "Start writing session" can open the project, start a timer, and turn on Do Not Disturb. "Post to Ghost" or "Export to PDF" become one flick at the end of a piece.
Home office Wi-Fi loads the research-heavy layout. The cafe network loads a stripped-down distraction-free default. Time-of-day and external display rules let evening sessions look different from morning ones.
Six-category emoji picker with a recents ring, plus text-insert wedges for Markdown headers, lists, frontmatter, and code-fence templates. Useful for social posts, Slack replies, and blog post intros.
No purpose-built integration, and it doesn't really need one. Swik launches Ulysses, Scrivener, Obsidian, iA Writer, Drafts, or any other app on a wedge. You can pin a specific document — your current manuscript or article — directly to a wedge so it opens in its native app. For deeper actions you wire an Apple Shortcut to a wedge, which lets you fire the app's URL scheme (obsidian://, ulysses://, ia-writer://) or any other automation.
It tries hard not to. Spotlight pops a bar at the top of the screen and steals attention. A radial menu appears under the cursor when you hold a hotkey or mouse side button, and dismisses the moment you release. It doesn't reorganize the screen, and it doesn't sit there waiting for you to click.
Yes. That's exactly what text-insert wedges are for. Each wedge holds a piece of text — your bio, a portfolio link, a Markdown frontmatter template, an email signature, a stock pitch reply — and pastes it via Cmd+V into whatever app is in front. Group them in a sub-menu so the parent wedge is your "snippets" hub.
Yes. Swik ships with multiple themes including dark variants, and the menu only appears while you're holding the trigger, so even in light mode it's never on screen for long.
Launch anything. Paste anything. One gesture. Free for five wedges, $9 one-time for unlimited. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
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