Looking for a tool for making a textfile by dragging text from application to desktop

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Willy Pastoor

Hi all,

Maybe it's a bit of a strange request but everyday i find myself
copying interesting pieces of text from websites to notepad and then
saving these for later use.

I think it would be very handy if it were possible to just select a
piece of text in an application window (for example IE) and just drag
the text to the desktop where a textfile is generated with the text.

Another option could be dragging the text to an open notepad window.

Does anybody know of such a tool?

Willy
 
"Willy Pastoor" made a strange request for copying interesting pieces of
text from websites to notepad and then saving these for later use.

HovText gets rid of all HTML and website formatting and allows a quick and
clean cut and paste into a text file (but won't open the notepad). Very
useful tool.
http://hovklan.com/
 
Willy said:
Hi all,

Maybe it's a bit of a strange request but everyday i find myself copying
interesting pieces of text from websites to notepad and then saving
these for later use.

I think it would be very handy if it were possible to just select a
piece of text in an application window (for example IE) and just drag
the text to the desktop where a textfile is generated with the text.

Another option could be dragging the text to an open notepad window.

Does anybody know of such a tool?
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You might like a clipboard extender - a longish list is here:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_DESKTOP.php#3.00Clipboard:Extender

I use Treepad for saving text snippets. It has a very good search and an
automatic paste function (which I mostly don't use).

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2004/PL2004ORGANIZERS.php#0790-PW

Susan
 
Another option could be dragging the text to an open notepad window.

Does anybody know of such a tool?

Willy
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One thing you might try is Win32pad, a freeware Notepad replacement.

http://www.gena01.com/win32pad/

If you have an open Win32pad window, you can drag highlighted text
from a browser to Win32pad and it will appear there as plain text. At
least this works with Firefox & Win32pad(I'm using an older version,
1.2.1). It does *not* work with Notepad itself.

C'ya.

Ben
 
One thing you might try is Win32pad, a freeware Notepad replacement.

http://www.gena01.com/win32pad/

If you have an open Win32pad window, you can drag highlighted text
from a browser to Win32pad and it will appear there as plain text. At
least this works with Firefox & Win32pad(I'm using an older version,
1.2.1). It does *not* work with Notepad itself.

C'ya.

Ben
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This also works with an open window in Metapad, which is on the 2004
Pricelessware List

http://liquidninja.com/metapad/

C'ya.

Ben
 
Hi all,

Maybe it's a bit of a strange request but everyday i find myself
copying interesting pieces of text from websites to notepad and then
saving these for later use.

I think it would be very handy if it were possible to just select a
piece of text in an application window (for example IE) and just drag
the text to the desktop where a textfile is generated with the text.

Another option could be dragging the text to an open notepad window.

Does anybody know of such a tool?

Willy
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This isn't quite what you asked for, but will probably be helpful and
might be better.

Co-Citer from http://www.cogitum.com/

It allows you to copy bits of text from the net (simply highlighting
anything in IE) then it stores them in a file together with their url so
you can easily find them again. It's superb for doing a rough search of
potentially useful stuff you can go back to later.

They also do another prog called, I think, image co-tracker so you can
save web pics in a single file toghether with their source url.
 
Willy said:
Maybe it's a bit of a strange request but everyday i find myself
copying interesting pieces of text from websites to notepad and then
saving these for later use.

I think it would be very handy if it were possible to just select a
piece of text in an application window (for example IE) and just drag
the text to the desktop where a textfile is generated with the text.
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Internet Explorer Text Archiver

http://www.pcnineoneone.com/tweaks/scripts9.html

===========================

IE Text Archiver enables you to highlight text on a web page viewed with
Internet Explorer 5 or higher and save the highlighted text with a
simple right-click to a text file in a specified folder on your local
hard drive.
===========================

I've not tried it.
 
Willy Pastoor was zeer hard aan het denken :
Hi all,

Maybe it's a bit of a strange request but everyday i find myself copying
interesting pieces of text from websites to notepad and then saving these for
later use.

I think it would be very handy if it were possible to just select a piece of
text in an application window (for example IE) and just drag the text to the
desktop where a textfile is generated with the text.

Another option could be dragging the text to an open notepad window.

Does anybody know of such a tool?

Willy
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Thanks for all your suggestions! :D

There's quite a bunch of good stuff out there i didn't know about.
I'm going to try out these proggies and see which ones work best for
me.

Thanks a lot!
 
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There's quite a bunch of good stuff out there i didn't know
about. I'm going to try out these proggies and see which
ones work best for me.

Thanks a lot!
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It would be nice if you could post a summary, and what you
thought about them.. maybe hard work, but I think it would
help anyone who is interested in such an application, such as
myself..

TIA,
KH.
 
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