It is possibile to drag a file into the Scapple board and optionally split the text into multiple notes.
I think it would be a major enhancement, if text in the clipboard could be pasted directly into Scapple with the same Split option. Instead, one has to use the long-winded method of copying text, pasting it into some editor, saving the file, then dragging the file onto the Scapple board, and finally, splitting the imported text into multiple notes. It works but is obviously not very ergonomic.
EDIT: Just discovered that four years ago this has already been requested.
As a more efficient workaround (in my sometimes not so humble opinion), I would have a text editor (hmm… say Scrivener, for example ) share the screen with Scapple, side by side. 70% Scapple (80% even).
Copy your note to Scrivener in a blank document.
Since you want to split by paragraph (from your previous post), it’ll be easy from there.
Triple click the paragraph in Scrivener, cut.
Click Scapple, paste.
And again and again, from the top down, until there is no more left of the note to split in Scrivener.
Scapple will have them new notes in order, cascaded.
If you so wish, once done, select the lot in Scapple and Notes / Stack
That’s fine, until you run into a long list of paragraphs. That’s when the “again and again” may become a tad inefficient. But how about if I fax myself the text, use scissors to cut the thermo paper at the paragraphs, photograph each paragraph and then drag the image files into Scapple? Would that work?
You can also use Scrivener’s Split Document feature.
If the text you want is either the Title or Synopsis of a Scrivener item, you can drag and drop directly from Scrivener’s Binder.
If it isn’t, you’d still need to copy and paste, but doing the splitting in Scrivener might make it easier to keep track of where you are and might make copy selection errors less likely.
With respect, that’s a lot of work. Since you’re a Windows user, use Win+Shift+S.
Your screen will fade.
Use your mouse to drag a box from top left to bottom right of the paragraph you want to capture.
Once you click off your mouse, your screen returns to normal.
Paste the resulting picture in Scapple, using Ctrl+V.
That said, the Windows Snipping Tool you would just have used, is more versatile than that, but at least you’d now be using an easier option than your proposed way of working.
@RevoTiLlor:
That would mean that I could scan the paper snippets instead of photographing them. Then I only need to screen clip the image of the paragraphs. That’s so much easier! Many thanks for that hint.
Maybe I am misguided but my intuition somehow tells me that simple copying of selected source text, immediately followed by pasting into Scapple with a Split function, could be a viable method (big if: Paste & Split feature is introduced in Scapple).
No. You are not misguided. Except for the apparent fact that you didn’t see our posts as us proposing alternatives that could help you in the meantime (if ever it gets implemented). … We are by no means saying that your idea/request is not a worthy one.
I would use it, come the need, if it was an available option, yes.
I agree this is a much-needed Scapple function. Most of my use cases for Scapple are cases where I already have a text list of some kind (aka paragraphs) that would be my starting point. It is for me a definite barrier not to be able to Paste & Split on carriage return.
I ended up writing a script to do this job (using Keyboard Maestro and Applescript).
Alternatively, of course, you could save time and labor by starting a GoWorkForMe campaign where paying subscribers could each perform one of the needed manual splits for you in your Scapple doc – in real time!
This was instructive, thanks. And simpler than mine.
(In my testing it doesn’t work with pastes from MS Word. Am guessing that is b/c what goes on the clipboard when copying from Word isn’t just CR delimited.)
) share the screen with Scapple, side by side. 70% Scapple (80% even).
