3.4.7   Services

Enabling EagleFiler’s System Services

After installing EagleFiler, you may have to log out and log in again in order for the services to work. To make sure the services are enabled, open System Settings, click on Keyboard, then click on Keyboard Shortcuts…. Click on Services in the list at the left, then look under the Text section at the right and make sure there are checkmarks next to the EagleFiler items.

Using EagleFiler’s Services

You can use EagleFiler’s import services to import text that’s selected in other applications:

• The EagleFiler: Import service lets you import the selected file, URL, or text into the current EagleFiler library.
• The EagleFiler: Import With Options service is similar except that it lets you choose the destination library and folder and assign tags and other metadata.

First, select the text that you want to import. You can then invoke an import service:

• By Control-clicking on the selected text to access the contextual menu.
• By pressing the appropriate keyboard shortcut. By default, the keyboard shortcut for EagleFiler: Import is ⌘! (Command-Shift-1), and the keyboard shortcut for EagleFiler: Import With Options is Command-Option-! (Command-Shift-Option-1). You can customize the keyboard shortcuts from the Keyboard pane of System Settings.
• By going to the Services submenu in the application menu.

The import services normally import text from Safari in Web archive format. The ImportTextAsWebArchive esoteric preference can be used to change this to RTF if desired.

Keyboard Shortcuts in Safari

If you are using the profiles feature in Safari, the Safari keyboard shortcut for opening a new window with the second profile (Command-Shift-Option-1) conflicts with the keyboard shortcut for EagleFiler: Import With Options. You can avoid this by changing one of these shortcuts in the Keyboard pane of System Settings to something else. Or, you can use the contextual menu or Services menu in Safari to access the EagleFiler: Import With Options command.