Tim Hardwick, writing for MacRumors:
Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file’s parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited.
Follow the link for a way to set any file on your Mac to be a template file, so you don’t overwrite it. I don’t feel bad for not knowing about this trick, since I’ve never heard it discussed, and since the name doesn’t really describe what it does. On the other hand, I feel stupid for never wondering what that checkbox does. This will be very handy for automation tools like Keyboard Maestro.
smokey says:
@40Tech I feel like this was one of those common pieces of the classic Mac OS that got lost during the transition to Mac OS X, because I used to use at a bunch in the old days, but few Cocoa apps supported it well in the early Mac OS X days.
May 29, 2018 — 1:35 am
40Tech says:
@smokey Learning of this was one of the rare “woah . . . “ moments for me on the Mac. Had no clue it even existed.
May 29, 2018 — 12:52 pm
smokey says:
@40Tech Hooray for discovering new (old) things! :-)
May 29, 2018 — 3:09 pm