ShelfMenu
ShelfMenu is a small application living in the system menu bar. It is useful to store every kind of information, like images, URLs, texts, file paths, lists; it can store everything you can copy in the clipboard. The information is organized in folders, which you can add, delete, rename, and move (preserving their content).
You have two methods for storing an information in ShelfMenu:
- Adding a text note; this brings up a very simple text editor, which lets you jot down a note;
- Adding the last object copied in the Clipboard.
If the objects do not have a text representation, the title in the menu will be generic; you can easily rename the items. If the object is an image, you will see a thumbnail in the menu.
The objects are stored in a file; even if you quit the application, you will find everything as you left it the next time you launch ShelfMenu. If you want to use an object, you can simply copy it on the clipboard again, so you can paste it everywhere else.
The default action if you click the menu item corresponding to a copied object is to put it on the clipboard: thus, there is no need to go into the sub-menu. I have left the sub-menu there because I will add new functions, and a user definable default action.
The application is free; you can use it without restrictions of time or functionalities.
Let me know if you like it and if you have some ideas for improvements. Here some thoughts:
- Synchronizing with a .Mac / ftp account, to share the information between more Macs;
- Releasing a windows version, to be able to copy on Mac and paste on windows, or vice versa;
- Localized international versions.
