Questions and Feature Requests: Editing to copy to a whiteboard app
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2025 4:22 pm
I am selecting regions of text in an article that I wish to copy over to a white board app (Curio) as a note taking practice. The deep link approach is a brilliant addition to BE. I have few questions.
* The only way to copy text + deep link is to highlight the selection first. To improve on this, could the editing bar include an option to Copy Text+Link?
* The Gear icon also only gives a Copy Link option. Should it also include the Copy Text and Copy Text+Link options?
* Consider the case when the editing toolbar is closed without action but the text selection remains active.
I do not find a way to re-invoke the editing toolbar. Can we have a way to re-invoke the editing bar (e.g. by hitting a control+T when the selection is still highlighted and visible in the viewing window)?
* I tried to drag a selected text from the PDF out to Curio. I tried to drag highlighted text from a PDF view in BE to an idea space on Curio. Nothing is carried over. Is it possible to set the clipboard to allow drag+drop out of BE while editing a PDF? For example -- no extra keys: drag+drop selected text, option key: drag+drop link to selection, shift+option keys: drag+drop text + link to selection.
* The arrow switches to a hand when the selection on a PDF is on a figure.
I cannot however find a way to select or copy a figure. Can this be made possible (with comparable added keys to copy figure, link to figure, and figure+link as above)?
* The only way to copy text + deep link is to highlight the selection first. To improve on this, could the editing bar include an option to Copy Text+Link?
* The Gear icon also only gives a Copy Link option. Should it also include the Copy Text and Copy Text+Link options?
* Consider the case when the editing toolbar is closed without action but the text selection remains active.
I do not find a way to re-invoke the editing toolbar. Can we have a way to re-invoke the editing bar (e.g. by hitting a control+T when the selection is still highlighted and visible in the viewing window)?
* I tried to drag a selected text from the PDF out to Curio. I tried to drag highlighted text from a PDF view in BE to an idea space on Curio. Nothing is carried over. Is it possible to set the clipboard to allow drag+drop out of BE while editing a PDF? For example -- no extra keys: drag+drop selected text, option key: drag+drop link to selection, shift+option keys: drag+drop text + link to selection.
* The arrow switches to a hand when the selection on a PDF is on a figure.
I cannot however find a way to select or copy a figure. Can this be made possible (with comparable added keys to copy figure, link to figure, and figure+link as above)?