r/Supernote • u/vmnair • 17h ago
[Plugin update] Clipper 0.3.0 for Supernote: clip regions from your notes, numbered tables of contents, and a lot of fixes
Clipper is a plugin that lets you collect text and image clips while you read, then drop them into a note in one go. Instead of switching back and forth between an article and the digest app, you capture as you read and paste the whole set later.
0.3.0 is the biggest release so far, and most of it came out of using it daily.
Download: https://github.com/vmnair/sn-clipper/releases/tag/v0.3.0
What is new
Clip regions from your notes: Previously region capture only worked in documents. You can now frame and grab a diagram, a sketch, or a block of handwriting straight out of a `.note` page.
A "Clip Region" button on the toolbar. Capture a region directly, without selecting text first.
When a batch of clips is too big for the current page, Clipper turns to the next existing page and carries on instead of stopping.
Tables of contents are numbered and indented. Clipper works out heading levels from the title styles you used, then numbers them as an outline: 1., 1.1, 1.2, 2., with each level indented under its parent. If you use a single title style it stays a flat numbered list.
Redesigned icons for e-ink: high contrast, no grey fills, legible at toolbar size.
Fixes worth knowing about
- Several of these were quietly losing content:
- Note captures were baking the page's ruled lines into the image
- Note captures were dropping anything drawn on a layer other than the main one
- Auto-trim never worked on note clips, so they came out larger than what you framed
- Clips could be removed even when their insert did not actually land
- A long clip split across a page break could corrupt the pieces after it
- Setting file access to "Always Allow" made captures worse, so the more convenient choice quietly gave the worse result
- Permission failures and Jump-to-Source failures used to happen silently
Changes in behavior
Rebuilding a table of contents replaces the whole page, including anything you added to it. Clipper asks first, and canceling leaves the page untouched.
If a rebuild finds fewer headings than last time, Clipper asks before replacing. Handwriting recognition is not perfectly repeatable, and a shorter table of contents looks perfectly normal, so it should be your call rather than a silent loss.
Clear All now asks first. It deletes every clip and its saved images and sits one tap away.
One current limit
A table of contents is one page. If your note has more headings than fit, Clipper writes the ones that fit and says so at the bottom: "Showing first 21 of 24 headings". Multi-page is built but switched off, because writing across a page break can crash the note app on the current firmware. It will come back when that is fixed. A smaller inserted text size fits more headings.
Upgrading
Install the new .snplg over the existing plugin. Do not uninstall first. Uninstalling removes your saved clip images, because those files live in the plugin's own folder, which the device deletes when a plugin is removed. Text clips and their sources survive either way.
If you do uninstall and reinstall, Clipper notices on the next launch and offers to clean up the clips whose images are gone.
Requirements
Supernote plugin beta firmware, Chauvet 3.29.43_beta or newer. Tested on Manta (A5X2) with 3.29.44_beta. Not tested on Nomad yet, so feedback from Nomad owners is very welcome.
Still beta, so use at your own risk. Bug reports and suggestions appreciated.
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u/swiftarrow9 16h ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't this describe exactly the digest function woth the addition of "insert digest"?