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3.8   Applications That Support Capture

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.

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