There are a few things you do a lot on a computer and one of them is Copying and Pasting content. And these concepts haven’t changed much over the last decades. I would like to have this extra feature, next to copying and pasting, in my Operating System: Fetch

Lets assume I need a quote to go with this blog. I switch to my browser, search for quotes in Google, find one, select it, copy it, then have to find my way back to the application I was using and my draft blog post, find the place I wanted to put my quote in and then paste it.

‘Fetch’ is Copy/Paste in reverse.

I am writing this blog post and need a quote. I select Fetch from the menu and switch to my browser, search for quotes in Google, find one, select it and then copy.

Now instead of having to look for my blog post and the insertion point my Operation System switches back to the application I was in and pastes the copied text straight into the insertion point.

It is a very simple idea that would save you a lot of switching back and forth.