{"id":30969,"date":"2020-12-10T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30969"},"modified":"2020-12-10T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:33:13","slug":"making-textedit-create-an-untitled-document-at-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/10\/making-textedit-create-an-untitled-document-at-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Making TextEdit Create an Untitled Document at Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_mchristensen\/status\/1336529283146162180\">Matt Christensen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_mchristensen\/status\/1336529283146162180\">\n<p>I use Text Edit all the time for ephemeral notes. I&rsquo;ve never liked how in recent macOS versions you get a file picker instead of a blank document.<\/p>\n<p>No more!<\/p>\n<pre>defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSShowAppCentricOpenPanelInsteadOfUntitledFile -bool false<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Alternatively, you can uncheck <strong>System Preferences &#x2023; Apple ID &#x2023; iCloud &#x2023; iCloud Drive &#x2023; Documents &#x2023; TextEdit<\/strong>. I like to do that so that I don&rsquo;t accidentally save files to iCloud. When TextEdit knows that it will never be saving anything in iCloud, it won&rsquo;t prompt you at launch. Note that it can be hard to find <strong>TextEdit<\/strong> in this list since it isn&rsquo;t sorted alphabetically.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/10\/untitled-vs-untitled\/\">&ldquo;untitled&rdquo; vs. &ldquo;Untitled&rdquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Christensen: I use Text Edit all the time for ephemeral notes. I&rsquo;ve never liked how in recent macOS versions you get a file picker instead of a blank document. No more! defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSShowAppCentricOpenPanelInsteadOfUntitledFile -bool false Alternatively, you can uncheck System Preferences &#x2023; Apple ID &#x2023; iCloud &#x2023; iCloud Drive &#x2023; Documents &#x2023; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-12-10T21:33:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"c86e5503-196c-47b6-ba3e-55d59a2acde0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-12-10T21:33:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AyG5VAxlsR7a6PlXVmirN4A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[649,913,30,1891,1050],"class_list":["post-30969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-esoteric-preferences","tag-icloud-drive","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-textedit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30970,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30969\/revisions\/30970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}