[dhm2006]

From the Message of the Day for today:

Enabled clipping support that has been in progress for a while.

• This uses the Mac OS X Services support to allow clipping of rich text from any application supporting services (hopefully the vast majority in this day and age...). The clipping is sent to Quick Entry, after which a series of plugins are invoked that perform AppleScript handlers to massage the data based on the source application.

• For example, if you have MailTags installed, a link to the sender and message will be prepended to the note, the flagged state, due date, and project (if present in OmniFocus) will be copied over. The subject of the mail message will be set as the task title.

• As of yet, there are only a few plugins, Mail with MailTags (we don't have a plain Mail plugin yet), OmniWeb, Safari and a fallback which does its best to capture information about the source of the clipping.

• The plugin format is pretty simple, though not currently documented. You can look in the app wrapper at BuiltInClippingHandlers.plugin for the examples mentioned above, and come by the Omni Group Forums and chat about how to support your own apps. And of course, if you have feedback on what apps you'd like us to include support for, send us feedback.

• The keyboard shortcut used to invoke the service can be specifed in a new clipping preferences pane.