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VCOO0031

OmniOutliner: Save Clipboard Text

This command will present a custom interface for saving the clipboard text to the OmniOutliner Documents folder on either iOS/iPadOS or macOS devices.

Scope and Syntax

Language: English (United States 🇺🇸 · Great Britain 🇬🇧 · Australia 🇦🇺 · Canada 🇨🇦)

Scope: OmniOutliner

Command phrase variations (words in [brackets] are optional):

Requirements

Video: Save Clipboard Text
This command will save the clipboard text to the OmniOutliner Documents folder on either iOS/iPadOS or macOS devices.

Downloads

Script Code

The clipboard text can be saved as "Text (plain)", "TaskPaper", "HTML", "JavaScript", or "SVG". NOTE: The corresponding file extension will automatically be appended to the provided file name.

On macOS, there is an optional checkbox for indicating the saved file should be automatically opened after saving.

Clipboard Save Dialog

Here is the script code:

Save Clipboard Text


(async () => { try { function createUtterance(textToSpeak){ AlexID = ( (app.platformName === "macOS") ? "com.apple.speech.synthesis.voice.Alex" : "com.apple.speech.voice.Alex" ) voiceObj = Speech.Voice.withIdentifier(AlexID) voiceRate = 0.4 utterance = new Speech.Utterance(textToSpeak) utterance.voice = voiceObj utterance.rate = voiceRate return utterance } var synthesizer = new Speech.Synthesizer() if(!Pasteboard.general.hasStrings){ throw { name: "No Text", message: "There is no text on the clipboard to save." } } inputForm = new Form() fileNameField = new Form.Field.String( "fileBaseName", "File Name", null, null ) inputForm.addField(fileNameField) fileTypes = ["Text (plain)", "TaskPaper", "HTML", "JavaScript", "SVG"] nameExtensions = ["txt", "taskpaper", "html", "js", "svg"] savingTypeMenu = new Form.Field.Option( "nameExtension", "Text File Type", nameExtensions, fileTypes, nameExtensions[0] ) inputForm.addField(savingTypeMenu) if (Device.current.mac){ shouldOpenFileField = new Form.Field.Checkbox( "shouldOpenFile", "Open file in default application", null ) inputForm.addField(shouldOpenFileField) } inputForm.validate = function(formObject){ textValue = formObject.values['fileBaseName'] return (textValue && textValue.length > 0) ? true:false } formPrompt = `Clipboard to ${app.name} Documents` buttonTitle = "Continue" utterance = createUtterance("Please indicate the file name and file type:") synthesizer.speakUtterance(utterance) formObject = await inputForm.show(formPrompt, buttonTitle) fileBaseName = formObject.values["fileBaseName"] nameExtension = formObject.values["nameExtension"] fileName = fileBaseName + "." + nameExtension if (Device.current.mac){ var shouldOpenFile = formObject.values["shouldOpenFile"] } folderURL = URL.documentsDirectory fileURL = folderURL.appendingPathComponent(fileName) textData = Data.fromString(Pasteboard.general.string, StringEncoding.UTF8) wrapper = FileWrapper.withContents(fileName, textData) wrapper.write(fileURL, [FileWrapper.WritingOptions.Atomic], null) if (Device.current.mac){ if(shouldOpenFile){fileURL.open()} } utterance = createUtterance("Done!") synthesizer.speakUtterance(utterance) } catch(err){ if(!err.causedByUserCancelling){ utterance = createUtterance(err.message) synthesizer.speakUtterance(utterance) //new Alert(err.name, err.message).show() } } })();

 

 

 

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