"Clip to Scrivener"

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Ever since I stopped using Evernote, I’ve been looking for a great web-clipping utility. I have a Chrome add-on called Clearly, (free or $10 for Premium) with an interesting Export / Clip function, with the following options. Wondering if any of these could be used to clip to Scrivener for Mac …

Export to / Copy as
Export to
Print / Export PDF
Doc
Docx
Markdown
MP3 (AI Speech)
EPUB
Copy as
Rich text
Markdown
HTML
Send as
URL
Email
Kindle
Disable Export Footer

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Rich text is Scrivener’s native format, so that’s the one I would pick.

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Thanks for that. Do you know if there’s a way to clip automatically to a given Project?

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On MacOS, the specific project has to be open. Then, using Safari (doesn’t work in other browsers; I just checked with Vivaldi) go to Safari----->Settings----->Scrivener: Make New Clipping.

There’s also Scrivener: Make New Clipping (Unformatted)

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You may also want to look into: Scrivener as Web Clipper

and:

Using Scrivener to store random ideas and notes

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fyi, it works with Firefox.

Another way to do this is via PopClip – a macOS app I couldn’t live without, ymmv. It has a Scrivener extension.

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This tool looks pretty nifty! What are the most common usages you have for it? I’m bad about adding things like this and forgetting about them, haha.

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PopClip is more than nifty. Useful. Handy. Dependant on it. Lots of possibilities, and more than I exploit. Common uses for me when selecting text:

  • highlight
  • clip to Scrivener clippings
  • search with a search engine (I usually use Google)
  • show location in maps (I usually use Google Maps)
  • if book title or author selected, show the book in Amazon
  • when writing, use tools to change case,
  • paste as task into Reminders
  • …
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I guess I’ve been sleeping under a rock because I haven’t heard of this! Well great, add it to cart.

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Most common usages of PopClip?

For me, looking at its wee selector:

  • Web search: I have Google and DDG set
  • Copy: used heavily in conjunction with Maccy, a free clipboard manager. A fabulous combination when editing in Scrivener – at least the way I edit.
  • Wikipedia
  • Goodreads: I wrote the extension for that \o/
  • Amazon: I don’t buy from them, but use it for sample pages before I buy (or not) somewhere else.
  • Google translate: I read a few languages, none of them perfectly :wink:
  • Dictionary: mainly to then use the thesaurus
  • Google Maps
  • Clip to: Notes, Obsidian, and Scrivener
  • I also have a few extensions that I switch on as required: Capitalise word; Join lines, and a few others.

I only have three login apps: PopClip, Maccy, and Moom. I’d miss any one of them, but if I had to choose only one, it would be PopClip.

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