how best to quickly save clipped texts for importing later

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Posted by jimspoon
Jun 5, 2014 at 01:23 AM

I’d like to be able to save all clipped texts to a file for later import or psting into an outliner of some sort.

Each clip would have the following essential items of info: date and time when clipped, title and url of source document/webpage, and finally, the text clipped.

Perhaps an ideal method would be to append all clips to a CSV file as they are clipped. The CSV file could then be opened in Excel and then massaged as appropriate for the destination outliner.

I’d like for it to work almost invisibly - very quickly, nothing popping up when I make the clip, maybe just a sound.

Been looking around - Cintanotes grabs clips with minimal fuss, but not to easy to get stuff from Cintanotes into a more powerful outliner. Tried out the highly regarded Clipboard Help + Spell, and can export clips to a CSV file, but the CSV file includes only a brief excerpt of each clip, and not the full clipped text for each clip.

Any ideas?

Posted by Alex Jenter
Jun 5, 2014 at 05:56 AM

Hi Jim,
It is possible to get data out of CintaNotes as txt files.

Export to XML and then use the xml2txtdir tool from here:
http://cintanotes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1352

Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 5, 2014 at 09:01 AM

jimspoon wrote:
I’d like to be able to save all clipped texts to a file for later import
>or psting into an outliner of some sort.
> >Each clip would have the following essential items of info: date and
>time when clipped, title and url of source document/webpage, and
>finally, the text clipped.

ClipCache Pro can almost do all of that. Except that the pasted text won’t contain the date & time, URL, and source info (although these are visible on ClipCache itself), which you probably also want.

Another option is to use a browser extension to collect the text and URL in the shape of a customisable template, and collect them in a text editor such as NoteTab that has a “paste board” function to collect the contents of the clipboard. E.g.

Create Link (Chrome):
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/create-link/gcmghdmnkfdbncmnmlkkglmnnhagajbm?

Copy Link Text (CoLT) (Firefox):
http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/

But the date and time would need to be added manually, so it’s not perfect…

Posted by Steve
Jun 5, 2014 at 10:52 AM

A method I use includes the tools of Firefox with two Add-ons: a) Autocopy b) Copy Plain Text, and Brainstorm http://www.brainstormsw.com/index.html.

This is what is looks like when I pasted the three referenced tools above:

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6/5/2014 5:41 AM

Autocopy
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/Autocopy/?src=api

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6/5/2014 5:41 AM

Copy Plain Text 2 1.2.1
by Leszek Z.yczkowski
Copies text without formatting
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-plain-text-2/?src=api

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6/5/2014 5:49 AM

BrainStorm makes it easy for you to capture information from your head, your computer screen or any file. Grab what you need on the fly. organize and embellish it when it suits you. References to external files, programs, web and email addresses can be invoked with Magic Launch. [more]
http://www.brainstormsw.com/index.html

The catch to this is appending the URL is not automatically done, you have to select that option to append it within the context menu. That means you end up with two clipped texts, just that the second one has the URL.

Steve

Posted by Garland Coulson
Jun 11, 2014 at 11:07 PM

Evernote will let you save a text selection from the web and will include date, time and url I believe. Not easy to import into an outliner later though.

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