MacJournal appends the web page title and url to the clipping (the selected text) when its clipping service is selected in the browser. I really wish Scrivener did the same. At the moment, I just get the text when I use the Scrivener service. I need to know for certain a few months later, that the wonderful extract actually was written by someone else and where I found it. So I have to go via MJ at the moment to collect material as I surf.
Maybe there is a way to customize the clipping already and I just don’t know how… in which case, apologies.
I don’t know how MacJournal does that, I’m afraid. Scrivener’s clipping service just takes text from whatever the current application is, and it knows nothing about the URL because the URL isn’t supplied - it’s like copy/paste; no URL is provided on the pasteboard when you copy and paste text. For now you can of course just copy the URL manually.
they probably add the “internet/Get Current Webpage from Safari” action in the automator which gives title+URL. This “context” part of their service only works with safari. with firefox you just get the selected text, but it’s a real time saver. Its the only thing I use MJ for now I have scrivener,
Another vote for automatically adding the URL of a webpage clipped to Scrivener, if Keith can figure out how to make that happen. I would find it extremely useful in my workflow, which depends heavily on clipped documents from the web.
The most efficient workflow for people who are heavy-duty-collectors from the net would be to add DevonThink Pro into the pipeline. DevonThink not only automatically stores the URLs, it find connections between the items you collect and allows a kind of pre-sorting of stuff. Plus, the collection process is far easier, from the context menu of the browser. This way, the materials of different projects may inspire each other, and only the relevant pieces need to get copied to the actual Scrivener file.
