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Smart copypaste

Creates a structured text from details then helps you paste them all correctly
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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)

pashute, Jun 20 2023

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       Android offers those features too, and Samsung in particular has implemented them really well.
21 Quest, Jun 20 2023
  

       I'm wondering if it is really just a ChatGTP script.   

       Copy 1: save selected text to clipboard.
Copy 2: append selected text to clipboard
copy 3: append selected text to clipboard.
  

       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.
pocmloc, Jun 20 2023
  

       Yeah I'm not either, I was hoping someone else would be able to make heads or tails of it.
21 Quest, Jun 20 2023
  

       "the smart assistant gathers all the information":   

       Phone: so and so   

       Address: so and so   

       Time: not specified yet   

       Location: so and so ...   

       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.   

       The result is a "json string" or something similar, with all the info needed for your future actions.   

       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.   

       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...
pashute, Jun 25 2023
  
      
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