Action Menu

Select text in any app and a menu of actions shows up next to it. Your app keeps focus the whole time.

When it shows

In Actions ▸ Behavior, choose to show it:

• after every mouse selection,
• only when you hold ⌥ while selecting, or
• only with the Show action menu shortcut.

You can also show it after keyboard selections (⇧-arrows or ⌘A) and set a minimum selection length.

To turn it off for a while, use the Action Menu toggle in the menu bar menu, or the Turn the action menu on or off shortcut. To keep it out of some apps or websites, add them in Settings ▸ Ignored Apps.

What’s in it

• Built-in actions like Search, Translate and Add to Calendar. Some only show when they fit, like Open Link for a link.
• AI actions. Proofread and Rewrite: Professional sit in the menu; the rest are in the AI group.
• The Transform group for case changes, sorting and encoding.
• Your own actions, once you star them.

Arrange it

Open Actions ▸ Menu. The preview is the live menu: hover it to try it, and click an item to edit it.

• Drag to reorder. Items go around the ring clockwise from the top. Set how many show before the rest go in More.
• Turn actions on or off, rename them, and show them as an icon, text or both.
• Add groups and separators. Duplicate an action to use it with different options.
• Give any action a Shortcut to run it without the menu.
• Reset Layout restores the defaults.

Keys

← → move, ↓ or Return opens a group, More or a list, and ← or Esc goes back.