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[stimresp]

Hi,

I have used Acetext for about two years. It is a fantastic clipboard manager. Although I find it incredibly useful, and a real life saver at times, there are a few niggles that can sometimes hinder workflow.

I have been able to address some of these using AutoHotkey and I attach the resulting script, because other AceText users might find it useful.

- Webclips: I am a scientific researcher, and I tend to collect a lot of text snippets from different websites. I need to be speedy, because there is always a lot of new information and references to view and index. I do find it a workflow stopper to highlight the text and drag with the mouse before the URL is saved. I would prefer to select my text, press a hotkey and thus have the text, plus url saved into a collection as a websnippet. This is possible with my AHK script - just Win+W to collect a clip into an acetext collection, with auto-labelling. It's a fast and unobtrusive way to collect information.

- Textclips: If I am working on a document, many times I will have a thought or phrase that I want to quickly save, without interrupting my workflow. With this AHK script, I press Win+C, a box pops-up into which I can jot a label and some text. I' m working on a way to allow me to choose a folder within the collections. This is somewhat like using the default 'enable' hotkey but requires fewer key presses overalll (4 vs .

- File Clips: With my AHK script, the hotkey Win+A opens a file dialogue. On selecting a file, a textbox opens where I can add a desciption / tags. This is saved as a clip with the filepath saved in the URL box. Thus, when I clip on the web icon, the file is opened. I find this to be an extremely useful indexing method. Later I can use Regexps to collect files from various destinations into one folder.

- Image links: As above, I wanted the ability to right-click on an image on the web and have the option to save it's URL, plus any text I enter, as a web clip (PicClip?). With my script, I can hover over an image on the web, press Win+I, and the image cn be quickly saved as a websnip, with label/text. Again, the image opens directly oon pressing the web button. (This only works in Firefox)

There are a few other commands detailed in the script. Webclip work with Fiiefox and IE7.

Get it here

Any comments or suggestions welcome. My first AHK script, so be gentle.

[poetbox]

Thanks.Very good.
In fact,you can write the funtion of AceText by AHK.It's not so difficult.

[stimresp]

Yep,, I know - my variant is here:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32748