Wowsa.

I was skimming through Planet Atlassian the other day, and learned about Skitch, a quick screen shot annotation design tool for Macs. Skitch, in its own right, seems like a cool utility. I could see myself using that to express ideas share fun things with my friends. It has a video on the site if you want to see what I’m talking about. (A free screencasting tool that let me share short videos easily, either via Flickr or pastebin or something would be equally cool. I’m not sure if that sort of beast exists yet or not.)

The coolest part of the app, which has me drooling, is something that I’ve wanted for a long time. Maybe it exists, and I don’t know what to call it to search for it. Or maybe it’s a MacOS only thing, or maybe it’s specific to Skitch but I want it.

Skitch has a “drag me” button at bottom of it. Working on something in Skitch and want to email it? Drag the thing into your email client and it packages it up for email. Want to save to a directory, drag it into the directory. Share on the web, drag to the web.

I want to be able to do that with Office applications. Drag this Excel spreadsheet that’s open into an email attachment. Right now, I have to save it somewhere, then open up explorer, navigate to where I saved it, and drag it into the email. I like that I can drag things, but I don’t like that it only works between explorer and the app. Why can’t I drag something open in an app into another app and have it do the right thing?

You guys are smart. Do you know what this kind of app-to-app interaction is called? Can I have this under Windows?