WhoPaste 2.0

WhoPaste 2.0 is a expert yet easy to use tool which can create contact by extracting the name, email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, websites, even instant message handles from the current text contents of the clipboard.

WhoPaste supports plain text, rich text, and spreadsheet clipboard information. Invoked by a user-configurable global hot key, WhoPaste is instantly available within any application.

WhoPaste puts a citation for the source of the information in the notes field, allows the user to review the data. Customizable with many defaults, WhoPaste supplies a number of on-screen widgets to easily perfect the extracted information before saving.

Major Features:

1. Basic Usage:
   
   • Always Instantly Available
   • • User configurable system-wide hot key OR
     • Contextual Menu (optional plugin with installer)
   • Uses the text on the clipboard
   • • simply use ‘Copy’ inside any Macintosh application
     • supports plain text, rich text, and tab-delimited data
   • Recognized contact data elements include:
   • • first name, last name, title, suffix, and nickname (e.g. “Skip”)
     • organization name and job title
     • mobile, work, home, and fax phone numbers
     • home and work email addresses
     • instant message handles
     • home and work street addresses
     • web page URLs
   • Citation for source information added to Notes
   • Optional create date, tags, and source data added to Notes
2. Supported Storage Options
   • Apple Address Book optionally add to 3 groups
   • Google Google Contacts optionally add to any Google system group and to 3 personal groups automatic login password stored in Keychain
   • Marketcircle Daylite
     
   • • contact optionally assign Category, Keywords, Priority, Tagline, and Flag
     • organization optionally assign Category, Keywords, Industry, Region, Type, Priority, Tagline, and Flag
     • match detection view match in Daylite window
   • Microsoft Entourage optionally assign 3 categories and add to 3 projects
3. Review Window
   • Clean toolbar-based user-interface
   • Drag and drop data between any field (Option drag to copy data)
   • Onscreen data presence indicators also support
   • Click to swap data (e.g. between ‘home’ and ‘work’ phone)
   • Option-Click to copy data to corresponding blank field
   • Option Double Click to swap data between first and last name; org name and job title; city and state
   • Country popups loaded with default ‘local’ countries option click to access all countries
   • Extensive tooltip hints
   • Optional ‘Send Sample’ function to assist in constant extraction improvement
4. Extensive Preferences
   • Sophisticated case conversion options
   • Country-based and user managed rules for phone number lengths and postal code formats
   • Format phone numbers using Address Book phone formats
   • Include/Not Include Organization and Job Title in extraction
   • Contact values for city, state, postal code, and country
   • User terminology for ‘Home’ and ‘Work’
   • Treat unlabeled data as ‘Work’ or ‘Home’
   • Prefer doubled first names or doubled last names
   • User managed ‘Sparkle’ support application update notification and installation
   • Initial view selection
   • Logging and ‘Email log’
   • Tooltip display speed
   • Contact data shown in bold
5. Extendibility
   • User managed contact title and suffix lists (language based)
   • User managed hint files for Organization Name, Job Title, and Street Names (language based)
   • bulk edit by dropping text files on list
   • in-process context menu for adding hints directly from data and re-extracting on the fly
   • User managed ‘ignore’ tokens (language based)
   • Built-in mechanism for sharing hint files back to vendor to enrich community
   • Citation is based on exposed AppleScript drop in new script- sample scripts provided for: Mail, Safari, Pages, TextEdit, Microsoft Word and Excel
6. Spreadsheets: Supports extraction of multiple contacts directly from spreadsheets
   • column names optional
   • defaults for multiple name and address street fields
   • review window provides for full individual edits after extraction before saving
   • search support in review window list
   • ‘Save Selected’ or ‘Save All’
   • Remove from list function
7. WhoPaste Manager
   • A Macintosh application for installing and removing the WhoPaste components
   • • this application is what is downloaded from the website
     • one button install or remove of the components of WhoPaste (including contextual menu plugin)
     • convenience tool for starting and stopping WhoPaste
   • WhoPaste Manager creates a login item for WhoPaste for the current user
   • Contains instructions and an assist for configuring the WhoPaste invocation keyboard shortcut
   • Contains a built-in viewer for WhoPaste instructional videos.

Requirements:

• Only 5 Meg of disk space
• Tiger or Leopard (Mac OS X 10.4.3 +)