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Great App!!!
I use the Zoom Windows to write notes. I encode items like reminders and events with title, date time, list name, and people using delimiters such as '#today$Buy some milk€Shopping' for a reminder or '$Risk meeting for ProjectX#23/7/18t12h30-13h00@Me;Email.address@domain.com' for an event. I then select the writing using the Lasso Tool to convert to text. I then share this text with Workflow extensions I have created which parses the examples into a reminder or event etc. It works great ;-)
A long-shot... but... Could you create a button which lassos the area between the top and bottom of the page and the left and right margins (I also use the margins for other purposes) and convert this. I would then send this area to a Workflow to parse the whole page. Cheers, M.
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Definitely a very interesting idea but quite complex and probably only relevant for very tech-savvy power users. We’re not sure but maybe it is already doable using Shortcuts, as other apps can read the converted text.
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Yury commented
It is probably easily done and would require very little programming on your part.
From Selection screen (Lasso) allow Shortcuts to be used as one of the app selection (system). I know that you define the type of data it is to be used. This saves a lot of extra steps. Currently this is done via convert only, and then share out, but shortcuts is not there as an app of choice.
Allow the text (Non handwritten) to be shared to shortcuts as well. This is not possible now.
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Anonymous
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Thanks for getting back on this. Could a button be created to simply create a 'rectangular lasso' box with default snapping to the top.left to bottom.right margin coordinates - placing converted text into clipboard? From there a Shortcut could process the clipboard data. Thanks, M.
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Anonymous
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Great idea!!!