EagleFiler’s capture feature lets you import the current window or items
from the frontmost application, just by pressing a key. The capture
key and capture with options key work in these applications:
- Address Book
- Captures a vCard file for the selected contacts.
- BBEdit
- Captures the file of the first document of the front window.
- Camino
- Captures the URL of the current tab of the front window.
- Cocoalicious
- Captures the URLs of the selected posts, preserving the tags,
description, and extended description.
- Cyndicate
- Captures the URLs of the selected articles, preserving the label and
flagged status.
- DEVONagent
- Captures the URL of the front browser window.
- DEVONthink Pro
- Captures the selected items, preserving the comments.
- Endo
- Captures the selected news items as Web archives, preserving their
tags and importing the excerpts as notes.
- Entourage
- Captures the selected messages or mailbox, preserving the message flags,
categories, and projects. If you want EagleFiler to skip a message, you
can assign it the category “OmitFromArchive”.
- Excel (2004 and later)
- Captures the file of the front window (make sure that it’s saved to disk).
- Finder
- Captures the selected files in the front window.
- Firefox
- Captures the URL of the current tab. (For some users, Firefox 3 will
report an error when EagleFiler asks it for the URL. If this
happens, you can import the page by dragging and dropping the URL
into EagleFiler.)
- Flock
- Captures the URL of the current tab.
- Google Chrome
- When you press the capture key, EagleFiler informs you of several ways that
you can import from Chrome.
- iCab
- Captures the URL of the front window.
- Journler
- Captures the selected documents, preserving their tags and comments.
- Keynote
- Captures the file of the front window.
- Mail
- Captures the selected messages in the front viewer window. Tags, projects,
and annotations from MailTags are preserved, as are the
unread/flagged/replied/etc. flags from Mail itself. If Growl is installed,
it will report on the progress of the capture.
- Mailsmith
- Captures the selected messages or mailboxes, preserving the message
status, label, and notes. You may find it helpful to use Email Archiver
to separate messages by age before importing them into EagleFiler.
- MarsEdit
- Captures the text of current post window or the selected posts,
preserving the permalink and the published date.
- MindManager
- Captures the file of the front window.
- Netflix Freak
- Captures the URLs of the selected movies.
- NetNewsWire
- Captures the URL of the current tab, or the URL of the selected
headline (if no tab is selected).
- Nisus Writer Express
- Captures the file of the front window.
- OmniGraffle
- Captures the file of the front window.
- OmniWeb
- Captures the URL of the current tab.
- Opera
- Captures the URL of the current tab.
- Pages
- Captures the file of the front window.
- Path Finder
- Captures the selected files in the front window.
- PDFView
- Captures the file of the front window.
- PowerMail
- Captures the selected messages or mailboxes, preserving the message status
and label
- Preview
- Captures the frontmost document.
- Pukka
- Captures URL being added, along with the title, tags, and
description.
- Safari
- Captures the URL of the current tab. Some Web pages (e.g. some sites
that require logging in) cannot be captured by loading the URL shown
in Safari’s location bar. You can import such pages into EagleFiler
by using Safari’s File ‣ Save As… command to save the page as a
Web archive (perhaps into the To Import folder of an EagleFiler
library), or by choosing File ‣ Print and then selecting Save
PDF to EagleFiler from the PDF button menu.
- Skim
- Captures the file of the front window.
- SubEthaEdit
- Captures the file of the front window.
- TextEdit
- Captures the file of the front window.
- TextMate
- Captures the file of the front window.
- TextWrangler
- Captures the file of the first document of the front window.
- Together
- Captures the selected files, preserving the tags, comments, labels, and
ratings.
- Vienna
- Captures the URL of the last selected post.
- WebKit Nightly
- See description for Safari.
- WebnoteHappy
- Captures the selected URLs as Web archives, preserving the tags and
notes.
- Word (2004 and later)
- Captures the file of the front window (make sure that it’s saved to disk).
- Yojimbo
- Captures the selected items, preserving the tags, labels, flagged state, and
comments.
For applications that are not listed here, there are many other ways to
import. For applications that support AppleScript, you can add
EagleFiler capture support by writing capture scripts.