Tips and Tricks
Here is a collection of interesting tips and tricks about VoodooPad.
Paste and Match Style
Sometimes you have some text on the clipboard, and you want to paste it in to your page. But, since you copied it from Safari or Word the text styling is not going to match what you have set up on your page. Under the Edit menu, right next to the Paste command, is another command labeled "Paste and Match Style". This will take what is on the clipboard and paste it into your page without any funky formatting. Just nice clean text the way you like it.
Move Selection to Page
If you have something located on one page, but you want to move it to another page, try Edit ▸ Move Selection to Page. A list of pages in your document will be presented in a drop down menu. Whatever you have selected will be cut and pasted to the bottom of the chosen page.
Following Links with the Keyboard
If the insertion point happens to be on a link in VoodooPad and you want to open it, you do not have to reach for the mouse. Type ⌘L and VoodooPad will do the right thing. Instead of creating a new page it will open up the link that you are on. It even works for multi-word links so you do not need to worry about selecting it first.
Including the output of scripts in from your clippings folder
If you create a unix shell script, and place it in VoodooPad's clippings folder, it will be run when selected from the insert menu. Then the output created from the script will be inserted where you have the cursor.
Setting $PATH or other variables for scripts run from VoodooPad
If you want to set environment variables for your shell scripts, have a look at this Technical Q&A from apple: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html
Quick decryption of encrypted pages
Did you know you can press ⌘L on an encrypted page to bring up the decrypt sheet? It is a lot faster than clicking or going to the menu if your hands are already on the keyboard.
Opening the Document Info palette from the toolbar
If you hold down the option key when selecting the Info toolbar button, VoodooPad will bring up the Document Info palette.
Browser Bookmarklets
A Bookmarklet is a simple bookmark for a web browser (such as Safari, Firefox, or Camino) that runs little programs on the webpage you are viewing. The VoodooPad bookmarklets allow you to use a bookmark to send selected text, or the current url to VoodooPad. Find out how to install them on the Browser Bookmarklets page.
Word Count
You can see the word, line, and character count of the current page or the entire document by selecting Plugin ▸ Word Count.
Audio Recording
To make an easy audio recording within VoodooPad, select Plugin ▸ Record Audio. A window will appear asking you to name the audio file. When you are ready, click the "start recording" button. When you are done click "stop recording" then "ok". The audio file (mp4) will be linked within VoodooPad, and the link will be inserted on the current page wherever your cursor is located.
Preview HTML
Are you using VoodooPad to create web content? A handy feature to see how your page looks in HTML can be found under Plugin ▸ HTML ▸ Preview as HTML (^⌘P).
