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Smart copypaste
Creates a structured text from details then helps you paste them all correctly | |
I look up some information about a service provided by some institute and wish to create a task, reminding me to call them up this morning and make an appointment. Later on, I will want to turn it into an event with time and location.
The smart assistant gathers all the info and creates a structured
text, which could be read by any person, or presented nicely in an app or browser add-on.
When I create the reminder task it already knows the title, and puts the structured info into the details. And when I create the event all the fields are correctly filled.
The smart paste can also work by presenting you the options of all current info, with the default being what seems to be the correct option.
The text can be in a hierarchical structure so that when there are multiple telephone numbers for instance, each will have a "label" of what it is. AI can help determine from the web page what kind of phone it is, mobile or landline, and whose number it is.
The same goes for creating bookmarks or filling in a bibliography as a researcher.
If there is highlighted text it can also store the beginning and end of the text for reconstruction as a link to highlighted text.
The important part of this idea is that the clipboard contains text which can be used in a smart app, to easily fill in fields in forms and to set up services without going back and forth between the copied screen with the information, and even not having to navigate again and again through different pages of results, with your flight date and number at one URL, and your frequent flying points retrieved from a different page. (And your personal info in a third, private, page)
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Your descriptions are quite intricate but I think at least some of the underlying functionality already exists in Apple’s products - iPhone, iPad, and Macs - and may exist in other systems. |
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If I highlight text in most apps, I get a popup showing several available actions, not just “copy.” Depending on what the highlighted text is, the popup may offer to dial it as a phone number, extract contact info and add it to my address book, put an appointment on my calendar, find a location on a map, look up or translate words, create a web link, and so on. There are a lot of built-in actions, and documentation exists to let developers write their own custom actions. |
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It even works with recognizing text in images (in my photo album or directly in the the phone’s camera view). Especially useful for copying phone numbers from a shop window, or translating a restaurant menu printed in a foreign language. |
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Is that at least part of what you’re after? |
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Android offers those features too, and Samsung in particular has implemented them really well. |
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I'm not sure what [pashute] means by creating a "structured text" to help him "paste them correctly." |
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I'm wondering if it is really just a ChatGTP script. |
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Copy 1: save selected text to clipboard.
Copy 2: append selected text to clipboard
copy 3: append selected text to clipboard. |
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Paste: call to ChatGTP: <please generate a plausible-looking summary text incorporating and based on these three copied fragments {clipboard 1,2,3}>; paste ChatGTP's response into current cursor position. |
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Yeah I'm not either, I was hoping someone else would be able to make heads or tails of it. |
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"the smart assistant gathers all the information": |
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The information in the structured result string all comes either from inside the marked text or from the web page you are looking at (in which case it iss less of a "smart copy" and only more of a "smart paste"). As you tab through the fields that are supposed to be retrieved from the original text it shows you some options numbered 1 2 and 3. By choosing the number that text is copied. Or you can simply click on it. |
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The result is a "json string" or something similar, with all the info needed for your future actions. |
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When you come to paste the info, it is usually just one click away, and all your fields get filled at once. (As it gets better at the "copy" stage that too would get closer to one single click, learning to "understand" the text it is reading with deep model AI. |
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So you don't have to go back and forth, taking the headline, and then copying the URL of the link and then back again to get the name of the writer and the publisher and back again to check the year of publishing, while you are writing a bibliography... |
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