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 first 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.
- Finder
- Captures the selected files in the front window, optionally
preserving the Spotlight comments as tags or notes.
- 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.
- iCab
- Captures the URL of the front window.
- Journler
- Captures the selected documents, preserving their tags.
- Keynote
- Captures the file of the front window.
- Mail
- Captures the selected mailboxes or messages in the front viewer
window. Tags, projects, and annotations from MailTags are preserved.
- Mailsmith
- Captures the selected mailboxes. 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.
- Microsoft Word (2004 and later)
- Captures the file of the front window (make sure that it’s saved to disk).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Yojimbo
- Captures the selected items, preserving the tags, labels, 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.