Using a clipboard extender

[ms]

Hoping for a suggestion to better manage saved text.

I save posts, text segments, etc. in an old version of Cliptrak, and each day, may
accumulate 20-30 clips. Cliptrak saves unlimited clips, but several days later
when I want to recover the content of many clips, the small display in the
clipboard extender is too limited to edit.
So I paste all of the clips into a temp text file. Then search in that file for
topics, copy all clips on a subject, then paste into a subject file, then edit the
posts on that subject.

This is a lot of work. In the past, I used Yankee Clipper, it was no help in this
problem.

Suggestions for a better way?

Mike Sa

 

[Frank Bohan]

Hoping for a suggestion to better manage saved text.

I save posts, text segments, etc. in an old version of Cliptrak, and each
day, may accumulate 20-30 clips. Cliptrak saves unlimited clips, but
several days later when I want to recover the content of many clips, the
small display in the clipboard extender is too limited to edit.
So I paste all of the clips into a temp text file. Then search in that
file for topics, copy all clips on a subject, then paste into a subject
file, then edit the posts on that subject.

This is a lot of work. In the past, I used Yankee Clipper, it was no help
in this problem.

Suggestions for a better way?

Mike Sa

Take a look at:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/cdd.html
and
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/clcl.html

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Frank Bohan
¶ Carpe diamond = Seize a girl's best friend

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi MS - I have a similar problem with storing "standard" posts, reference
links, notes, etc. and what I use is a program called Keynote, free, here:
http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html. Recommended

--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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[Joe]

Hoping for a suggestion to better manage saved text.

I save posts, text segments, etc. in an old version of Cliptrak, and each
day, may accumulate 20-30 clips. Cliptrak saves unlimited clips, but
several days later when I want to recover the content of many clips, the
small display in the clipboard extender is too limited to edit.
So I paste all of the clips into a temp text file. Then search in that
file for topics, copy all clips on a subject, then paste into a subject
file, then edit the posts on that subject.

This is a lot of work. In the past, I used Yankee Clipper, it was no help
in this problem.

Suggestions for a better way?

Mike Sa

Hi Mike

This topic was extensively covered in a post a few days ago, I suggest that
you are actually moving away from mere clipboard extension and into
snipit management.

I suggest a treepad style note orgnanizer such as "treepad lite" or
"goldensection notes" which again has the ability to be increased insize.

 

[Joe]

Hi MS - I have a similar problem with storing "standard" posts, reference
links, notes, etc. and what I use is a program called Keynote, free, here:
http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html. Recommended

Snap,
That is exactly what I recommended in the above reply, I have used keynote
and found it to be quite big but did have a few bugs in it.

 

[ms]

Hi Mike

This topic was extensively covered in a post a few days ago, I suggest that
you are actually moving away from mere clipboard extension and into
snipit management.

I suggest a treepad style note orgnanizer such as "treepad lite" or
"goldensection notes" which again has the ability to be increased insize.

I must have missed it- what was the subject heading in the previous post?

Mike Sa

 

[ms]

Take a look at:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/cdd.html
and
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/clcl.html

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Frank Bohan
¶ Carpe diamond = Seize a girl's best friend

Thanks, Frank. I am looking into them.
CLCL looks like it saves many clips, will check if format is better than Cliptrak.

CDD has a log file that may be an advantage, no data on how many clips it saves.

Mike Sa

 

[ms]

Hi MS - I have a similar problem with storing "standard" posts, reference
links, notes, etc. and what I use is a program called Keynote, free, here:
http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html. Recommended

Jim:
I tried ver. 0.99 as it is an executable.

It's still new to me, but I notice:
To save clips, you select it each time Keynote runs, not a selectable default- a
nuisance.
It creates a nice log file, clips are shown in order (I like), but it can only be
saved in a Keynote format. No good for me, save as a text file, it is unusable,
full of code. I need to wind up as a text file.

Comment?

Mike Sa

 

[ms]

Thanks, Frank. I am looking into them.
CLCL looks like it saves many clips, will check if format is better than
Cliptrak.

CDD has a log file that may be an advantage, no data on how many clips
it saves.

Mike Sa

The CLCL display is not as useful as my present Cliptrak.

The CDD log file is good, but even more work to edit than Cliptrak.

Mike Sa

 

[Frank Bohan]

Thanks, Frank. I am looking into them.
CLCL looks like it saves many clips, will check if format is better than
Cliptrak.

CDD has a log file that may be an advantage, no data on how many clips it
saves.

Mike Sa

Mike: I have CDD2 on which there is no limit to the number of clips. It can
append everything to a textfile. It also generates another textfile with
URLs from the clipboard. The current version seems to be CDD3 but I presume
this version is the same.

You might also look at the A-Toolbar which I've mentioned in other posts.One
of its many functions is to store text items from the clipboard. The clips
are kept individually, and the number of clips can be configured. The
default is 50, I have mine set at 150. Experimentally, while doing this
post, I reset the figure to 15,000 and it seemed happy to accept it, so I
think for all practical purposes there is no limit. I use it as a clipboard
backup. (The metasearch and translation modules I also find very useful).
http://www.metaeureka.com

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Frank Bohan
¶ French Pangram: Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume.

 

[Susan Bugher]

I tried ver. 0.99 as it is an executable.

It's still new to me, but I notice:
To save clips, you select it each time Keynote runs, not a selectable
default- a nuisance.
It creates a nice log file, clips are shown in order (I like), but it
can only be saved in a Keynote format. No good for me, save as a text
file, it is unusable, full of code. I need to wind up as a text file.

Hi Mike,

I keep my notes in Treepad. Treepad files can only be exported to one
large text file.

Keynote is more flexible - it can export nodes as individual text files
- take a look at the export options.

You can import Treepad files to Keynote and export as individual text
files. . . between the two you should be able to do just about anything
you want. . .

Susan

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi MS - If you'll take a look you'll find that there's a mode that will
automatically capture anything copied to the clipboard - make a new root
node (just to keep them separated - or pick an existing node at which you
want to start a sub-tree of clips) called ? Clipboard, for example, then
toggle on Clipboard Capture using F11. It will then automatically create a
new sub-node for each clipboard capture. Also you can export any single
node|selected nodes|all nodes in plain text form from the File dropdown at
any time. If you're willing to spend a little time investigating it, I
think you'll find that this is an extremely capable program - I've only
found one thing that I wanted which it couldn't do natively, and that was
relatively minor (and maybe I just haven't figured it out yet ) One of
the things I like most about it is how flexibly it can be tailored to work
exactly as I need it to for my purposes which are a bit different than most.
FWIW, I tried all of the others that have been recommended in this thread
(and others also) before settling on KeyNote. I still do maintain and use
YCIII which is an excellent program also for certain of my needs.

--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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[John Fitzsimons]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:14:34 -0500, Susan Bugher

I keep my notes in Treepad. Treepad files can only be exported to one
large text file.

Keynote is more flexible - it can export nodes as individual text files
- take a look at the export options.

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So why use Treepad at all ?

 

[Susan Bugher]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:14:34 -0500, Susan Bugher



< snip >

So why use Treepad at all ?

Treepad files are text files (a plus in my book). Treepad files are
smaller. Treepad has a better search. . . etc. etc. etc.

Note: Treepad can import .csv files. Keynote cannot. When *I* export
individual files from Keynote they are files that were imported from a
*Treepad* file that was created from a .csv file.

BTW - a new Freeware version of Treepad is coming soon.

Susan

 

[ms]

Hoping for a suggestion to better manage saved text.

I save posts, text segments, etc. in an old version of Cliptrak, and
each day, may accumulate 20-30 clips. Cliptrak saves unlimited clips,
but several days later when I want to recover the content of many clips,
the small display in the clipboard extender is too limited to edit.
So I paste all of the clips into a temp text file. Then search in that
file for topics, copy all clips on a subject, then paste into a subject
file, then edit the posts on that subject.

This is a lot of work. In the past, I used Yankee Clipper, it was no
help in this problem.

Suggestions for a better way?

Mike Sa

Thanks to all for suggestions.
I will work with Keynote, Treepad, CDD, and CLCL. That will keep me busy, hope to
post back fairly soon.

Mike Sa