How to make Writing Tools on macOS easier to access [Video]

One of the few useful Apple Intelligence features that have actually made it to Mac users so far is Writing Tools. They offer a quick (albeit imperfect) way to proofread, change, summarize, or compose text with a mixture of Apple’s own models and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

However, there is a clever workaround to address one of its most annoying shortcomings.

I use Ulysses to write just about everything on my Mac. But contrary to Mail, Pages or other Apple apps, Ulysses doesn’t have (yet?) an Apple Intelligence button in the header. So what I have to do is select the text I’m working on, and wait for about a second until the little blue Apple Intelligence snippet shows up. Except when it doesn’t. Sometimes, it’ll only appear if I land the cursor on the selected text. Sometimes, it won’t.

When that happens, there are still a few alternatives to invoke Writing Tools. I can …