⌥⌘X opens a floating note, with the selected text already in it.
A note is a floating window that saves itself. It is the place for the paragraph you are drafting, the list you are collecting, the thing you do not want in a document yet.
Notes stay on top of other windows, so you can write while reading something else. The 📌 in the header turns that off for a note that should behave like a normal window.
Clicking a note in the popup opens the editor instead of pasting. To paste one, press ⇧⏎ or ⇧-click.
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