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|  Clipping Selections From Other Applications into a Notebook
“Clipping” automates the process of copying information into a Notebook page. If you’re using Apple Mail, for example, and want to save a message in one your Notebooks, you would select the text, copy it, launch NoteBook, open the Notebook, turn to the right page, paste, and then resume working in Mail. When you clip, you achieve the same result in just two steps. What’s more, clipping happens in the background so you never leave the application you’re working in — just clip and keep going, without losing your train of thought.
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| Preparing a Page for Clipping
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Before you can clip to a page, you must choose Page → Add Clipping Service to add a “Clipping Service” to that page. Adding a Clipping Service causes that page to appear in all of the applications on your computer. You can repeat this step for any other pages you want to clip to. A page with a Clipping Service attached has a scissors icon next to its name.
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To remove a note, select it and press the Delete key.
Once you’ve made a selection within another application, clip it NoteBook by choosing a Notebook page from the application’s Services → NoteBook menu.
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Each application’s Services → NoteBook menu lists all of your Clipping Services ➊.
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| NoteBook briefly changes its Dock icon and plays a sound to let you know that it received the clipping request. When you clip, NoteBook makes a copy of the original selection, including any attachments. You can delete the original selection without losing the clipped copy. The clipping is also fully editable.
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| Getting Information About a Clipping Using the Clipping Sticker
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NoteBook assigns a Clipping Sticker to each clipping. The Clipping Sticker contains the source application’s name and can contain additional information. Click and hold the Clipping Sticker to see its contents.
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When you clip from Apple Mail, the Clipping Sticker ➊ contains additional information and options ➋.
NoteBook also adds a Contact Sticker ➌ if the e-mail sender is in your Address Book.
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Whenever possible, NoteBook adds a Snap Back Sticker that returns you to the source document.
With web browsers, the Snap Back Sticker contains the source page URL.
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| Quick Clipping using Contextual Menus
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You can quickly clip selections to your Notebooks by Control- or right-clicking a selection to reveal a contextual menu, then choosing a Clipping Service from the NoteBook submenu.
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| Clipping When Services Menu Items are Dimmed
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Not all applications properly support the OS X Services menu. If you ever make a selection and find the clipping service items are dimmed, try clipping using the contextual menus. If the application does not support contextual menu plug-ins, you can clip using NoteBook’s Dock icon: copy the selection to the Clipboard, then Control- or right-click NoteBook’s Dock icon and choose a Clipping Service from the Paste to menu.
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| Removing a Clipping Service
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Remove a page’s Clipping Service by turning to the page and choosing Page → Remove Clipping Service.
If the Notebook with the Clipping Service no longer exists, you can remove its old Clipping Services in the Clip pane of the Actions Inspector (Window → Inspector).
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