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Collections Suggestion: Copy/Paste to Collection
A nifty feature would be able to take a URL, text, or image from the clipboard and paste it as a new entry in a collection. One example use would be taking a screenshot and pasting it into a collection.
Jacques Van de Meerssche seems to be the main response to feature requests here... "other software does that", "you can get an extension for that", etc. I'm going to take this that edge just isn't going to be what I need. I liked Edge for the tracking prevention and potential upcoming set aside feature.
I was hoping collections would be more useful, though: search, clipboard access and OneDrive integration, etc. Instead, I was told to use OneNote. I liked the home screen, but wished the speed dial was also more useful (basically visual bookmarks, with search and folders). Instead, I was told to use a NTP extension.
After some looking around, I found a browser that has all of the things I'm looking for: tracking prevention, speed dial, session management (similar to Edge's set aside), and a more useful feature for collecting web content and viewing across devices.
Thanks for hearing my requests at least. Hopefully Edge's utility features improve over time.
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- This would sound awesome but at the comment, Collections are only designed to only contain links to web contents.
so you can't put anything in them. if you want to add a picture to a collection, you have to find it on the web and then add its link to collections.
that's why I don't have much use for collections.You can already add notes, images, and links to collections. If you right-click an image, you can "Add to Collections" and it will be added like this:
What I'm suggesting:
- If you have a URL in your clipboard, pasting it will do the same thing as "Add current page", but loading it from the URL.
- If you have text in your clipboard, it will create a note entry just like if you clicked "Add note".
- If you have an image in your clipboard, it will add it like you see above. It could host the images on the user's machine (no MS account), in a dedicated folder in the user's OneDrive storage (with a MS account), or in the same place notes are hosted.
- Also it makes sense because they are syncing these collections, if they were to allow us to add and upload actual image files to collections, that would be a huge data to sync. so that's why they chose to only allow us to save links to contents in collections.
