Is there any way to quickly clip selected text to TiddlyWiki?

[kat]

I am aware of TiddlyClip, and it is very useful, however I am looking for a way to clip text from sources outside of a web browser.

I want to be able to highlight text in my pdf reader and in one click create a tiddler that contains that text.

I've tried using AutoHotKey. I can use it switch to my open wiki and create a new tiddler, but as far as I can tell there is no way to jump to the body of the tiddler to copy the text.

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

[TonyM]

I know this is not what you are after buy it may help.

On windows Ctrl-c tab to browser Ctrl-v will paste the clipboard into an untitled import tiddler.

Try rclick to copy to see if the source provides alternate copy formats. Change the source or viewer if not.

If you use the visual editor you can have this stored as html in a tiddler.

If you collecting content look into browser extensions, yes they display pdf or advance clipboard tools.

Tiddlyclip works well but only for the browser but pdf can be in the browser.

I use snagit to capture content and grab text from images. I use foxit reader for pdf handling.

See how you go and ask more questions here.

Regards
Tony

[Mark S.]

I believe you can launch a url from AHK?

So you could launch a permaview, especially constructed to include "Draft of", which opens your target TW and tiddler already being edited. Then, unfortunately, you will have to send X number of tab keys, where X represents the number of fields including tags in order to reach the text field.

That's one thought. The other thought is to use ABBVY or some other converter to convert your PDF to an HTML file. Then do your clipping from the HTML.

As a practical matter, I tend to use a pasteboard manager. I'm sure every platform has one or more. I use Ditto on windows. I copy the bits and pieces I need, then go over to the TW file and construct the appropriate tiddler. I tend to use this more than tiddlyclip because it doesn't require me to dock, pre-install and pre-configure plugins, etc.