Has Anyone Used The TextBEAST Clipboard Manager?

Posted by Gary Carson
Aug 28, 2011 at 04:17 PM

“The idea of a ready-and-waiting inbox sounds very interesting, but I can see a certain conflict with my current setup: Ctrl-F12 is used in Surfulater to create a new folder, and cannot be re-assigned. Is it possible to change the hotkey in CintaNotes?”

Yes, you can change all the hot keys in CintaNotes. I had to change the default “Add New Note” hot key because it conflicted with another program I’m using. It’s easy to do.

“Is it possible in CintaNotes to select, say, 4-5 consecutive (or not) entries and copy them to another program with a couple of clicks/keystrokes?”

I’m not sure about this. I tried using CTL-CLICK and SHIFT-CLICK to select two or three consecutive/non-consecutive notes, but it didn’t work. There may be another key combination, however, so don’t take my word for it. I couldn’t figure out how to do it in textBEAST either, but I’m still learning how to use the app.

Now that I’ve had a chance to play around with it for a while, I’m really impressed with textBEAST. I’m going to use it as a holding area for information that will eventually get moved elsewhere or maybe deleted after I read back through it again.

CintaNotes can also be used as a clipboard manager. Highlight some text you want to copy and use the clip text hot key (default CTL-F12) and you end up with a note in CintaNotes that can be tagged for searching later. CintaNotes presents you with a sortable list of notes and textBEAST, I think, offers more tools for organization. One nice thing about CintaNotes is that you can call up a simple note editor with one keyboard command, write a note, then save it with CTL-ENTER while CintaNotes is running in the background. Very useful. I don’t think you can do this in textBEAST, but I might be wrong.

textBEAST has the ability to do screen captures and view them later. It has a lot of other features like password protection, but I haven’t figured out how to use them yet.