Note command for Ubiquity

General information

This is a command for Firefox's Ubiquity extension.
The purpose of this command is to quickly save the inputted text (can be selected text or your own text) to a file on your disk without having to launch a text editor.

Installation instructions

First of all, make sure you have the Ubiquity extension for Mozilla Firefox. It appears that you do not have Ubiquity installed. You have to install it before you can use this command.
After you install Ubiquity, you should see this in the top of this page:



Click the Subscribe button and acknowledge the warning that appears.
You're now ready to use the note command!

Usage instructions

Select some text on a website and invoke Ubiquity (default shortcut is Ctrl-Space). Type note and press enter. The selected text will be saved to your selected location (by default: C:\Notes\) with a filename the title of the current website.

You can also enter your own text to save after typing note in Ubiquity.

To view notes you have taken for the current website you're viewing, invoke Ubiquity and type notes-view. This will open a new tab with the saved notes.

Here's some text to try it on:

Optional configuration

You can change the location where the command will save the notes. To do so, invoke Ubiquity and type notes-location followed by the location you want the notes to be saved. Make sure the location ends with a double backslash and that you use double backslashes!
The default location for saving notes is C:\\Notes\\ .

You can also configure the encoding that will be used to save the notes by invoking Ubiquity and typing notes-encoding followed by the encoding you want to use.
The default encoding for saving notes is UTF-8 .

Known bugs

• This Ubiquity command currently only favors Windows operating systems. It may (or may not) work in other operating systems if you change the location.

Special thanks

• upsidedown - Original idea
• http://www.captain.at/programming/xul/ - Code for saving a file
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Writing_textual_data - Code for writing Unicode data in a file
• http://maloki.net/projects/pingfm-ubiquity/ - Code for saving preferences
• Walrick - Command's icon

Links

• gist: 39932 - Command at gist
• Older versions of the command

Version history

• 2009-01-13: Version 1.2
  • Illegal filename characters from titles will now be stripeed prior saving
  • The " - Mozilla Firefox" (or whatever you have configured) will no longer be in the note's filename (thanks cers!)
• 2009-01-08: Version 1.1
  • Fixed a bug where you had to use the configuration commands before you could use this command
  • Website: Will now detect if the user has Ubiquity installed
  • Website: Added Links section
  • Website: Valid CSS button now links to the valid CSS results
• 2008-12-25: Version 1.0
  • Initial release