When I am working in my own business I am a mechanical engineering drafter using licenced software to produce unique drawings for manufacture of special purpose machinery. I frequently need to know minute detail to ensure that the Engineer who will sign off on the drawing will be able to use their finite element analysis tools efficiently. So I find it very useful to open a word document and using snip copy paste techniques give myself a cheat sheet .... drawing no, revision etc... in it also a snip of the relevant section of the relevant standard from/ off a copy, and a series of snips from the body of email exchanges giving my client's outlines, sketches, and a snip from my own photo of my whiteboard notes, interspersed with my typed comments .... including my own costings snipped from my excel spreadsheet, and my proposed times, drawing register controls etc.... all in one word document. I avoid using cloud based offerings at this early stage, afterall I am dealing with possible inventions, in a commercial sense I am creating a work.
When I am wearing my family history hat, I use those same tools . . My puter, my research quest for the minute detail, my knowlege of primary source material, the online and the off line resources currently available, and so whether I am simply helping here at RChat or contacting some of my ancient but very alive elderly relatives or sorting out my own research from decades ago, I open a word document, I set out a brief outline of the quest at hand, I check my own current resources already saved on my hard drive and if an RChat quest, I type up my reply after I have located http links to point the RChatter to some useful online resources. Sometimes I take photos of my own offline resources and insert those into my word documents. Sonetimes I drag n drop.
... sometimes, particularly when in online indexes I right click the mouse. Sometimes I snip parts of existing PDFs, sometimes I then copy and paste from my word document across to my reply here at RChat. I don't save my RChat documents.
I don't actively seek out clipboard... it seems to me to belong back in DOS ... or Windows 3.3 or earlier.
But, each one of us has our own way and we ought to be prepared to hear others just as others need to be prepared to hear each of us.
One finger typed on my mobile phone into a piddly little dialogue box.
PS ... back before the internet, scissors where physically held in the hand to snip articles to then pick up Perkins paste and wipe back of the newspaper copy with said paste and place the copy on the p age of the scrap book .... snip, copy, paste.
JM
