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:
- Arc Browser
Captures the URL of the current tab. You can also use EagleFiler’s
service to import the selected text.
- BBEdit
- Captures the file of the first document of the front window.
- Brave Browser
- Captures the URL of the current tab.
- 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.
- Contacts
- Captures a vCard file for the selected contacts.
- Cruz
- Captures the URL of the current tab.
- Cyndicate
- Captures the URLs of the selected articles, preserving the label and
flagged status.
- DEVONagent
- Captures the URL of the front browser window.
- DEVONthink
- Captures the selected items, preserving the comments, tags, rating, URL,
and flagged/unread/locked state for the specific items that are selected.
If a folder is selected, the files and subfolders it contains will be
imported, but they will not retain this extra metadata.
- Endo
- Captures the selected news items as Web archives, preserving their
tags and importing the excerpts as notes.
- Evernote
- Captures the selected notes and converts them to RTFD format, along with
their tags, attachments, source URLs, and other metadata. You can also use
the Import ENEX File… command to import notes previously exported from
Evernote. (Evernote 10 no longer supports AppleScript, so you should use
the Import ENEX File… command instead of the capture key.)
- Finder
- Captures the selected files in the front window.
- Firefox
- Firefox is no longer scriptable enough to support the capture key, but
pressing it will show you some instructions for importing from Firefox to
EagleFiler.
- Flock
- Captures the URL of the current tab.
- Google Chrome
Captures the URL of the current tab. You can also use EagleFiler’s
service or the Auto Copy extension
to import the selected text.
- Hibari
- Captures the URL of the selected tweet. (Direct messages are not supported.)
- iCab
- Captures the URL of the front window.
- Iron
Captures the URL of the current tab. You can also use EagleFiler’s
service or the Auto Copy extension
to import the selected text.
- Journler
- Captures the selected documents, preserving the tags, category, comments,
and label.
- Keep It
- Captures the selected files, preserving the tags, comments, labels, favorite
status, and source URL. (Notes remain in Keep It’s proprietary format.)
- Keynote
- Captures the file of the front window.
- Leaf
- Leaf is not scriptable enough to support the capture key, but you can enable
the EagleFiler Import extension in its Sharing preferences.
- 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. For more information, see
the Importing Mail From Apple Mail section.
- MailMate
- Please see Importing Mail From MailMate.
- 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.
- Microsoft Edge
- Captures the URL of the current tab.
- Microsoft 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”.
- Microsoft Excel (2004 and later)
- Captures the file of the front window (make sure that it’s saved to disk).
- Microsoft OneNote
- Unfortunately, the Mac version of OneNote does not make it easy to get your
data out. You can either export one page at a time as a PDF
or sync your data to a Windows PC and then use it to export everything at
once.
- Microsoft Outlook
- Captures the selected messages or mailbox, preserving the message flags,
read status, and categories. If you want EagleFiler to skip a message, you
can assign it the category “OmitFromArchive”. For more information, see
the Importing Mail From Outlook section.
- Microsoft PowerPoint (2016 and later)
- Captures the file of the front window.
- 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.
- News
- Apple News doesn’t support the capture key, but you can import to EagleFiler
using the Share button.
- News Explorer
- News Explorer is not scriptable enough to support the capture key, but you
can enable the EagleFiler Import service in its Sharing
preferences and assign a keyboard shortcut to it.
- 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). If text is selected in a Web page, EagleFiler adds it
as a note. If it’s starred, applies the flagged tag. You can also use
the EagleFiler Import command from NetNewsWire’s Share button.
(Capturing works in NetNewsWire 5 and NetNewsWire 3, but not in NetNewsWire
4.)
- NewsRack
- Captures the URL of the current tab and puts the selected text in a note.
- Nisus Writer Express
- Captures the file of the front window.
- Notes
- The Apple Notes application is not scriptable enough to support the capture
key, but pressing it will show you some instructions for importing from
Notes to EagleFiler. For example, you can select text in Notes and import it
using one of EagleFiler’s Services.
- Numbers
- Captures the file of the front window.
- OmniFocus
- Captures the selected actions of the front window. The project, flagged
state, and tags are imported as tags. The creation and modification dates
are preserved. The URL in OmniFocus is preserved. The note is preserved as
plain text, with any text styles or attached files discarded.
- OmniGraffle
- Captures the file of the front window. For best results, set OmniGraffle to
save its documents with a Quick Look preview.
- OmniWeb
- Captures the URL of the current tab.
- Opera
- Captures the URL of the current tab.
- Orion
- 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.
- Reeder
- Reeder is not scriptable enough to support the capture key, but pressing it
will show you some instructions for setting up a toolbar button or a
separate hotkey for importing to EagleFiler.
- Safari and Safari Technology Preview
- Captures the URL of the current tab and puts the selected text in a note. On
macOS 10.11.5 and later, in order for EagleFiler to access the selected
text you must check Show Develop menu in menu bar in Safari’s
Advanced settings and then make sure that Enable JavaScript From
Apple Events in the Develop menu is checked. Some Web pages (e.g.
some sites that require logging in) cannot be captured by loading the URL
shown in Safari’s location bar. For more information, see Private Web
Pages in the Importing Web Pages and URLs section of the manual.
- Skim
- Captures the file of the front window.
- SOHO Notes
- SOHO Notes does not work with EagleFiler’s capture key, but you can import
from it via drag and drop. For example, dragging a folder of notes from the
SOHO Notes window to EagleFiler’s Dock icon will export those notes from
SOHO Notes and import them into EagleFiler.
- 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.
- Unread
- Unread doesn’t support the capture key, but you can import to EagleFiler
using the Share button.
- Vesper
- From Vesper on iOS, you can export to iCloud Drive. Then select the Vesper
Export ƒ folder in the Mac Finder and press the capture key.
- Vienna
- Captures the URL of the last selected post.
- Vivaldi
- Captures the URL of the current tab.
- 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, 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.