Fsnotes: [REQ] Shortcut to copy note to clipboard

[dircadmin]

I would love to have the ability to copy the content of a note to the clipboard with a single keystroke.

Imagine how useful this can be for a programmer to manage your snippets with FSNotes in this way. Just use a good title and the code snippet (or any other snippet) as the content of the note and you can look up and copy your snippet very quickly.

[gingerbeardman]

Maybe

File > Copy Contents
Cmd+Opt+C

[jeff-h]

Neat idea.

Perhaps just plain Cmd+C to copy the currently-selected note, when the note list has focus? Although as it stands there's no visual indication this is the case (I think there may be an older issue about this).

As a point of reference, Sublime Text copies the current line (where the text cursor is) when you do Cmd+C without selecting anything. So another possibility could be that Cmd+C copies the whole note if you have clicked in the note but not highlighted any text?

Both these ideas a highly opaque though — not sure how people would discover them.

[glushchenko]

@jeff-h nice idea 👍🏻

[peavine]

This would be a nice enhancement. I especially like gingerbeardman's suggestion to add this to the top menu bar, as this will allow users to select their own shortcut key by way of system preferences.

BTW, for those who want to do this with a mouse, the share menu has a "copy plain text" menu item that will copy an entire note without first selecting the text of the note.

[dircadmin]

I also like the idea to just using cmd + c to copy the currently selected note as it‘s the most straight forward way.

[dircadmin]

It does't work in the AppStore Version!?

Or am I missing something? I select a note and press cmd+c, but nothing happens and my clipboard is empty.

[peavine]

I can't get this to work either. What I'm doing is:

1) Select a note in the notes list

2) Use the keyboard shortcut, Command-C

3) Paste the clipboard, which is either empty or contains contents from previous copy to clipboard.

Is there a different shortcut?

FSNotes 2.0.6

[gingerbeardman]

looking at the code, it's only implemented to copy the note your cursor is in (don't select any text)

So we need the ability to copy the selected note in the notes list when that has the focus.

[peavine]

It doesn't work for me even when the cursor is in the editor without any text selected.

[glushchenko]

@peavine build number?

[peavine]

I see that a done label was added an hour ago but, FWIW, I'm on 2.0.9 now and:

1) the Command-C shortcut copies nothing to the clipboard if the cursor is on a blank line with nothing selected.

2) The Command-C shortcut copies a paragraph of text to the clipboard if the cursor is in a line of text with nothing selected.

[glushchenko]

@peavine, yep, will be available in 2.1.0

[gilbert]

This might require a separate command. Using just cmd+c is ambiguous when you're typing text in the search bar; FSNotes highlights the end of your input while autocompleting. However, this does seem like a "clever hack" and could be improved to not insert highlighted text, displaying e.g. grayed text instead.

But additionally, what if you manually highlighted text in the search bar and hit cmd+c? You wouldn't want FSNotes to copy the whole note; that would break a very fundamental user expectation.

In any case, you can accomplish the original request by hitting TAB, cmd+a, and cmd+c after you've found your note.

[dircadmin]

I hope we can get a possibility to copy the whole note with a single command without the need to enter the note at all. Maybe through another keyboard shortcut? shift-cmd-c maybe?

[gingerbeardman]

Agreed.

It's possible to store multiple representations on the clipboard, so the URL/title and contents could all be stored in one clipboard. If you paste to Safari, it would paste the URL and if you paste in an editor it would paste the note contents.

I think the clipboard functions in FSN could be, should be, simplified.

[peavine]

I just installed FSNotes 2.1.0 and thought it might be helpful to summarize what the Command-C keyboard shortcut does in various situations:

1) Has focus - sidebar
What's selected - a folder name (or other item)
What does Command-C do - nothing

2) Has focus - notes list
What's selected - a note name
What does Command-C do - copies the entire text of the note to the clipboard

3) Has focus - editor
What's selected - text
What does Command-C do - copies the selected text to the clipboard

4) Has focus - editor
What's selected - nothing
What does Command-C do - copies the paragraph that contains the cursor to the clipboard.

5) Has focus - search and create bar
What's selected - nothing
What does Command-C do - nothing

6) Has focus - search and create bar
What's selected - text
What does Command-C do - nothing

With regard to the above, I would make quick mention of two items:

• In 1 above, the Copy command in the top menu bar is active but does not appear to do anything.

• In 6 above, I would expect Command-C to copy the selected text, although this is not something I would ever use.

Otherwise, for me, the implementation of the Command-C shortcut in 2.1.0 is excellent.

[gingerbeardman]

4 - Seems a bit odd? Should it not copy the whole text of the note? (this is not something I would do often)

[peavine]

@gingerbeardman. I expect to use that keyboard shortcut (item 4) a lot. I'll use it to copy any bit of information that ends in a line feed, including email addresses, code snippets, URL's, text snippets, and telephone numbers. We all work differently but for me this is a nice enhancement.

[peavine]

I don't mean to belabor this issue, but I wondered if it might be possible to add a menu item to the top menu bar to copy the contents of a note to the clipboard. The bottom of the File menu would thus show:

Copy URL
Copy Title
Copy Note

The "Copy Note" menu item would be active when the focus is in the notes list or in the editor, which may be more flexible and convenient for some as compared with the Command-C keyboard shortcut.