Clippings are reusable snippets you insert at the cursor — boilerplate, signatures, canned replies, code blocks you paste weekly.
Create a page named Clipping: Something — say,
Clipping: Sign Off — and put the snippet in it. It immediately appears
under Edit ▸ Insert ▸ Sign Off. Rich text clippings keep their formatting when
inserted into rich pages; everything else inserts as text.
If a clipping's content starts with #!, choosing it runs it as a
shell script and inserts whatever it prints. The classic:
#!/bin/zsh
date '+%A, %B %d, %Y'
…inserts Thursday, June 11, 2026 at the cursor. Anything your shell can print, a clipping can insert: git status, the weather, a UUID, this week's sprint number.
Relatedly, Go ▸ Run Page as Shell Script executes the current page's text
with /bin/zsh and shows the output — a scratchpad for small scripts that
live with your notes. Scripts run with your user account's permissions, the same as
typing them in Terminal, so treat pages you didn't write with appropriate respect.