Text expander and clipboard enhancer tools

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 2, 2012 at 06:02 PM

Dr Andus wrote:
>CTRL+C copies and pastes the content, CTRL+A selects all, and CTRL+J joins the broken
>lines that are adjacent only - which is important to preserve the original paragraph
>structure.

Like Jon, I also thought of Brainstorm when reading your description of using Notetab. Brainstorm has a clever way of joining lines of text:

- Enter edit mode (F2) and go to the end of the line
- Press DEL to join with the next paragraph/line (as you might expect)
- Here’s the clever bit: Brainstorm will join the lines adding a space in between, and the cursor will then jump to the END of the second line, ready for joining with the next one.

I also own a license to Clipcache Pro which I consider an excellent clipboard extender. However, at the end of the day, clipboard extenders have a ‘generic’ approach, handling all kinds of data (plain text, rich text, images, files, URLs…) that may end up in the clipboard. As I work 90% with plain text in my clipboard, I find a tool like Brainstorm (or Notetab) more useful.

That said, one tool that I find indispensable is the shared clipboard Simidude. Especially now, with my main Windows laptop on one side and my Linux notebook on the other, it is like having an extended desktop.