Tuesday 26 August 2014

Paste It 3.5

It's been a long while since I updated one of my Chrome Extensions (http://www.chromeshark.com), but somehow my note-pasting extension Paste It received  a large surge of users recently, and given that it's one I use myself on a daily basis, I thought it was time to give it a quick refresh to version 3.5.

The functionality is the same as before - set a piece of text and use the Toolbar icon, Alt+V keyboard shortcut or Context menu to insert it in a text field. It's particularly useful for email addresses, never again suffer the "please confirm your email address" box.

Version 3.5 now let's you toggle any of the options on or off, so if you only want the keyboard shortcut for example, you don't have to fill up your menus. It also uses the new "activeTab" feature of Chrome apps so you it doesn't require as many permissions to install. Install it for free it here.

I get a lot of requests for more advanced features such as multiple notes or customizable keyboard shortcuts. Unless I find really clever ways of implementing these, it's unlikely I'll add such features as my primary aim for Paste It is to keep it very simple to use. All these features and more are possible with my more advanced Papercuts extension.