copyfornotes 1.7 firefox addon

I do a lot of note taking for MODSonair, a podcast for MODSonline. I also use FireFox as my primary web browser. This means I have the ability to use add-ons (aka extensions) to add features to the browser to make life easier.

In taking notes for MODSonair, I regularly copy come text from a web page that has an interesting topic for discussion during our show. I copy this text along with the link of that page. I copy it in plain text format so that it doesn’t take on the color or size attributes of what I am copying. Then I paste it into my notes. Here’s an example of what I do about 25 times a week for the last 84 weeks:

- site update – harumph
http://www.foyleman.com/archives/107

Well, I decided to try and make things a little easier for myself by creating an add-on that would do this for me. Basically, the add-on will copy any selected text as the title of the notes and also copy the URL of the current page. The content will be formatted as you see above. All that’s left for me to do is paste it into the actual show notes and perhaps hyper-link (so it goes to the link when you click it). I am calling this new add-on ‘Copy for Notes’ since that’s the whole purpose.

* Update version 1.7 allows you to select any text on the page. Then right click the page not on any link on the page and ‘Copy for Notes’ to copy the text with the current page URL. OR right click the page on a link found on the page and ‘Copy for Notes’ to copy the selected text with the right clicked URL instead of the current page URL.

Note that Ctrl+Shift+M is the shortcut associate with this add-on.

You’re welcome to play with my new add-on. You can grab version 1.2 1.5 1.7 right here:

Copy for Notes 1.7

Posted in: Hints »  by: foyleman

2 Responses to “copyfornotes 1.7 firefox addon”

1. batistablr  Says:
   July 18th, 2007 at 4:34 pm

   Haha, Great tool foyleman! one question, How do I install it? I donwloaded it but where do I place the file.

2. foyleman  Says:
   July 18th, 2007 at 4:43 pm

   This is a firefox extension. I have to look at how to create an automatic installer for this site. But what I do is:
   - save the file somewhere on my computer.
   - go to the location where I saved the file.
   - open firefox.
   - drag the file I saved into the open window of firefox.
   - complete the installation.

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