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Has Anyone Used The TextBEAST Clipboard Manager?
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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.
Posted by critStock
Aug 28, 2011 at 09:44 PM
Greetings to all,
TextBeast looks quite slick. Can anyone tell me whether it is capable of capturing any metadata for a given clip? I.e., the URL of the source page for a clip or—my personal Holy Grail—the path+name of a source file?
Cheers,
critStock
Posted by Gary Carson
Aug 29, 2011 at 03:22 AM
I don’t think textBEAST saves any metadata.
Posted by jimspoon
Aug 29, 2011 at 12:51 PM
Just experimenting with Cintanotes a little. I was able to select multiple notes in Cintanotes, consecutive or non-consecutive, using the usual methods. I tried a Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V into Notepad - it pasted only the text of the notes. But you can also do a File / Export to a text file - and the resulting text file contains each note - not just the text of the note but also a date/time stamp and the source URL. Hope this helps.
Posted by jimspoon
Aug 29, 2011 at 12:57 PM
i should have clarified - when you do a Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V in Cintanotes - the text of the selected notes gets pasted. If you do a File/Export, you can select whether you want to export all notes or just selected notes. You can also use hot keys - F11 exports selected notes, Ctrl-F11 exports all notes.