Clippings

“Murder your darlings,” advised Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. “Kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart,” said Stephen King, popularizing the idea. But sometimes you’ve got a bit that sounds pretty good, and you’d hate to erase it forever.

Clippings let you keep your darlings on the cutting floor, to resurrect later when you find a better place for them to live. Click the scissors icon beside a paragraph to clip it, or select text and press Cmd+Alt+X to clip it.

Then click the caret in the bottom of your document (or press Cmd+J) to open the Clippings pane, where you can drag clippings into any document, jot down a note or idea as a new clipping, and more.

It’s the easier way to cut bits from your writing without worrying about losing them forever.