[idea edited 2026]
You copy the following text: Call our offices open Mon-Fri 9am-3pm John Doe Chief Tooth Brusher, at Whiteeth Inc. 833-471-9562, 12 Burbanks Ave. Jerkins, NE 11691
SmartCopy takes the text and restructures it into yaml:
Company: Whiteeth Inc.
Office hours: Mon-Fri 9am-3pm
Name:
John Doe
Job: Chief Tooth Brusher
Phone: 833 471-9567
Address: 12 Burbanks Ave. Jerkins, NE 11691
You go to your calendar and create a new event, the form is open. You want to paste anywhere on the page. Hit Ctrl V.
In version 1 you stand on the event description field and past
Smart paste pastes: Meeting with John Doe (CTB at Whiteeth Inc)
You go to choose the date: Saturdays and Sundays are gray.
You come to paste location, and the address from the clipboard is filled in.
In version 2 you paste anywhere on the page and all fields are filled correctly.
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.
When you write a bibliography, 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. It gives you the whole bibliographic note.
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The original description (June 20 2023):
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)