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Some suggestions:

1. ClipDiary shows 20 items in its window.

I feel that number should be configurable (in option) so that users can choose how many items one wants to see in the window. It will depend on how much screen space we can afford to devote to Clipdiary main window.

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2. In the ClipDiary main window, entire keyboard keys with all the ctrl, shirft, alt, combinations are available, but none is being used except "Enter" and navigation keys.

And, instead of being able to use them, we have to scroll up and down to reach individual item and hit enter to get it pasted.

I feel that if each of those 20 entries in the main window have a single character (say 0-9, a-z depending on how many items are there in the current window), then we can just press that letter 0-9 a-z from wherever we are on the window and that particular entry gets pasted. So quick, so convenient.

3. currently we can select only 1 item and paste it in one go.

I feel it will be convenient if we could select by clicking at several entries in the main window and when we click paste, all those get pasted in one go.

As such we can still do it by going to them one by one and clicking on paste each time, but selecting several and hitting enter once to paste will be more convenient.

The point is, if we had somehow copied several similar entries, like email ids, or words, or phrases, then it will convenient if they can reach our editing software in one go (click on bottom most entry, click on top most entry, press enter, all get pasted. so cool), and once the reach our Word window, we can move them around to quickly arrange them in order to get what we want.

4. currently we can hit delete on any entry and it gets deleted from clipdiary database. Giving a button, and a right cilck menu to do the same will be helpful.

5. Just like multiple pasting, it will be convenient if we could delete multiple entries in one go by selecting them.

6. making the cilpdiary window more small will help it become less intrusive.

For that, those set of item range things <<, <, >, >> can be removed as this this is getting conrolled anyway from the pageup/ pagedown keys which are window standard and everybody intuitively uses them.

For that matter, Ctrl-Home to reach the first entry and Ctrl-End to reach the last entry can be added (currently Ctrl-Home is working like pageup and Ctrl-End like pagedown).

Instead of Paste, Copy, Cancel buttons which are quite big, a micro sized toolbar can be thought of. "Hide window after copying or pasting" can be replaced with a toggle button on the toolbar.

Thus, entire bottom panel can be removed to save screen space.

Thanks for your patience. I concede that it took me 10 minutes to jot down, but it will take you long time if you decide to implement any of these.

Thanks and Regards.

just one more,

if multiple selection/ pasting/ deletion options are given, or even without them, it would be convenient if we could change the order of the clipboard entry by dragging and dropping in the window, or by Ctrl-Arrow keys.

Then, we can move some entries out of our way and the desired entries will come as one block.

Thanks.

Hello VSRawat

Thanks for your ideas, I am going to fully rewrite Clipdiary in this year, and I will keep them in my mind. But please note, I try to keep Clipdiary as simply and easy for each user as this possibly.



Clipdiary shows 50 items by default, but you can change this in CONFIG.CFG file, it's located at "C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Application Data\clipdiary\"

Write "CountItemsInRange=10" for 10 items on next line after "[Main]", save and restart Clipdiary.

Multiple pasting will appears in future versions.

I am extremely thankful to you for sharing with me your secrets.

I put "CountItemsInRange=100" and it gives me a good enough list, that I scroll up and down in a single window.

That would some more thoughts.

Would you like to share other such settings which might be useful for us in customizing clipdiary further. If not individually, may be in help pages or at website.

Also, as all users keep on formatting their O.S. every now and then, the settings file will disappear when I do next and I will have to again set it. I might have forgotten the command, and would have to search what the command was.

I wonder if it were possible to shift the config.cfg file also to some other location where we can save it and where it does not get overwritten in the next format. May be, if you think it appropriate, why not keep the config file also in the same folder where database is kept. I have moved database away from windows folders to a different drive.

Thanks.

Hello


There are no other hided options.




I don't think that this is really needed.