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Send to Notepad
by Jason Clarke Jan 21st 2007 at 1:30PM
Although I'm always a fan of simple utilities, this one may be a touch too simple. Send to Notepad is a tiny little application that sits in your system tray, using the typical Notepad icon from Windows. When you want to copy text to an instance of the Notepad, you simply copy the text you want to copy, then double-click on the Send to Notepad icon in the system tray. Poof, it opens a copy of Notepad and dumps the contents of the clipboard there.Although I can see that this could be a useful application, I wish it had a few other usability features. For example, the ability to paste to Notepad using a shortcut keystroke would be useful. Also, it should be able to detect when you've got text highlighted, negating the need to actually copy the text to the clipboard before firing off the Send to Notepad functionality.
Even still, this could be a useful utility to have in your arsenal.
Note: I had difficulty viewing the Send to Notepad site in Firefox; for some reason it didn't detect that I had the Flash plugin installed. It opened fine in an IE Tab in Firefox, though.
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jeadly said 2:32PM on 1-21-2007
I use my Auto Hot Keys script for this. Win+n copies the selected text, opens a new Ultraedit(way better than notepad) window and pastes the text. I've also got win+z set up to paste the text into the run command prompt, which is very useful when someone sends me an email with a network drive location to open that isn't a link.
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Larixk said 7:46AM on 1-22-2007
After reading this I decided to create and compile my own little app with AutoHotkey.
It works pretty much the same as the app described above. It adds an icon to the taskbar which if clicked copies the content of the clipboard into a new Notepad window.
My version also has a Hotkey (Ctrl-Shift-C) which copies the currently selected text to a new Notepad window. (as requested above)
It's a single .exe which of course can be added to the start up folder to ensure permanent availability.
Direct link: http://www.larixk.nl/uploads/NewNote.exe
Hope you like it!
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zkam said 5:53PM on 1-22-2007
Never tried AutoHotKey, but I was going to suggest Hoekey, which I imagine is similar. Check it out.
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Quentin said 12:47PM on 1-23-2007
This program will solve all your problems:
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
I've been using it for ~3 years and I cannot be without it. You can setup any Win-X key combination as a "Paste as Text" command. It's super simple and works like a treat. My only complaint is that there is no option to remove it from the Tray.
Quentin.
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