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#Save Text to File

Build Status devDependency Status Built with Grunt

Usage

Firefox addon which saves selected text to a file in a directory (defaulting to the user's home directory).
Goal is to simplify note taking on web pages so users can refer to data at a later stage offline, without the need to remember URL's etc.
After highlighting some text, right-click and select Save Text to File
File names can have the following pre-defined formats:

  • userPreference.txt
  • userPreference--<todaysdate>.txt
  • userPreference--<timestamp>.txt
  • userPreference--<todaysdate>-<timestamp>.txt

Features

  • Add date to saved file name
  • Add time to saved file name (disabled if 'saveMode' is 'Append')
  • Add date to the beginning of saved text
  • Add time to the beginning of saved text
  • Various date formats to choose from (.txt, .csv)
  • Add a line separator to the file before saved text
  • Save current URL in file
  • Text encoded using UTF-8 (Unicode) so all international characters can be stored correctly
  • Ability to either append text to existing file or create a new file
  • Set filename same as pagename
  • Show/hide widget icon
  • Optional preference confirmation panel triggered when Save Text to File is clicked
  • Option to save selected html text
  • Can edit text before saving

Localization

  • Czech (cs-CZ)
  • German (de-DE)
  • Chinese (zh-CN)
  • English (en-US) (en-GB)
  • Spanish (es-ES)
  • French (fr-FR)
  • Italian (it-IT)
  • Japanese (ja-JP)
  • Korean (ko-KR)
  • Polish (pl-PL)
  • Russian (ru-RU)
  • Ukrainian (uk-UA)

Demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4zQGVLfm7o

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Firefox addon that saves highlighted text to a file in a specified directory.

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