TextFridge Help

TextFridge is a small utility which allows you to store lots of texts that you often need to write.
You can store up to 150 texts (25 for each colored square).

To put a text in TextFridge, select it in its own application and just drop it on a line of TextFridge.
Conversely, to use a text stored in TextFridge, just click on its line and drag it to the place where you want to write it.

The Edition Window of a line (double-click on that line to open it), offers more functionalities:
Modify the text or the title of the line (the text that vill be dragged to another place and the title that appears in the main window may be different), set the color of the line (grey, colored or customized)...

The Edition Window of a color (double-click on its square to open it), allows you to modify the colors, to lock or unlock that color, to remove all the lines...

Most of these actions are also available in contextual menus (right-click on a colored square or on a line).

The main window can be shown or hidden with a single click in the menu bar.
In addition, a key combination allows it to be displayed momentarily.

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III. List of functionalities (How to...)

Show/Hide the TextFridge window
To show or hide the TextFridge window, just click one of the two small refrigerators, located one in the menu bar, the other at the bottom of the window. Even hidden, the window appears when the alt and cmd keys (⌥ and ⌘) are held down and disappears as soon as these keys are released.
These options (including the choice of the two keys) can be modified in the Preferences (visibility).

Display TextFridge window above the full-screen window of another allication
When another application is in full-screen mode, the TextFridge window moves into the foreground at the time you make it visible.
Therefore, it may be necessary to hide it and then make it visible again (use for instance the small fridge in the menu bar).
If, according to the chosen options, the TextFridge window is “always visible”, just press the key combination mentioned in the paragraph above for one second.

- Drag the text to the window and drop it on the line you want.
- Double-click on a line (or where you want to create a line), and fill the Edition Window that appears.

Get a text from TextFridge
Click on a line and drag to the place where you want to write the text.

Insert date or time (automatically updated at each use)
In the Edition Window of the line, click on Date and time and follow the instructions that appear.
If Do not show this message again has already been checked in the support window, hold down the shift key (⇧) while clicking.

Use the clipboard icon in the main window
This icon at the bottom of the main window allows to drag and drop texts from/to macOS clipboard.

- If it is difficult to drag a text to a line, you can copy it (⌘ C) and then drag it from the icon to the line.
- if you have to write the content of a line several times in succession, you can put it in macOS clipboard: Just drag the line to the icon.

- Double-click on the line (or where you want to create it) or on the colored square.
- Use the contextual menu of the line (right-click on this line) or of the color (right-click colored square).

- Use the contextual menu of the line (right-click on this line).
- In the Edition Window of that line, click on one of the two small squares (colored or grey) at the top or click on + to choose a custom color.

Note: This choice is only available when the text of the line is not empty.

Set the default color of all the lines
Use the contextual menu of the corresponding colored square (right-click on that square) or use the Edition window of that color.

Create a label line without background color
In the Edition window of that line, enter a title but let the text field empty.

- Place the cursor over that line and press the delete key.
- Use the contextual menu or the Edition window of that line.

Remove all the lines
Use the contextual menu of the corresponding colored square (right-click on that square) or use the Edition window of that color.

- Click on the padlock in the main window or in the Edition window of the color or in the Edition window of any line.
- Use the contextual menu of the corresponding colored square (right-click on that square) or use the contextual menu of any line.

When a color is locked, it is impossible to modify it. It is impossible to move, remove or modify (title, text or color) any line.
If you try to drop a new text on a locked color, a black square with a closed padlock appears. Tip: You can unlock (without releasing the text) by holding the text over the closed padlock for 2.5 seconds.

Change the order of the lines or of the colored squares
To change the order of the lines, click on a line, drag it, and release it inside the main window.
(To move a line to an other color, hold it over the corresponding colored square for half a second.)
To change the order of the colored squares, use the same method.

Adjust window height
You can modify the height of the main window manually.
To automatically adjust it to the non-empty lines, click on ↨ at the bottom of the main window (not visible when the height is adjusted).
Tip: Dragging a text (or a line) and holding it over the bottom of the main window for half a second automatically adds a line.

Undo an operation
Click on Undo at the bottom of the main window or use the Edition menu if available.
This option is only available after removing a line, removing all the lines or dropping a text on a non-empty line. It disappears at the next change.

Show Preferences (visibility)
To Show the Preferences (visibility) click on

at the bottom of the main window or, if available, use the TextFridge/Preferences (visibility) menu.

Import/Export TextFridge Data
Of course, application data is automatically saved on your computer. But it is also possible, to export this data (for example to iCloud Drive or to Dropbox) and then import it to another computer.
➞ It may be prudent to also export the data somewhere on your computer as a backup just in case...

- To export data, click on the Import/Export icon at the bottom of the window. Select Export Data and choose a folder.
Data is copied in that folder as a file named TextFridgeData.txt.
Textfridge stores that location.

- To import data, click on the Import/Export icon at the bottom of the window. Select Import Data and choose a folder containing a file named TextFridgeData.txt.>
You can undo the operation, but only until the next change in TextFridge.
➞ An alternative way to import data is to manually drop a TextFridgeData.txt file on the main window of the application.

➞ In order for the selected folder to be, at the next use, the default folder of the choice window, ensure, when choosing, that its name appears at the top of the window (If it is only highlighted in the list double-click on it).

Show TextFridge Help
Click on ? at the bottom of the main window or use the Help menu if available.

Quit TextFridge
In addition to the usual means, you can quit TextFridge by clicking on the close button of the main window while holding down the alt key (⌥).

IV. Some tips

Advices for a comfortable use of TextFridge Recommended reading!
Suggestion:

- In the main window, click on

.
- In the window that appears, make sure both options are checked, then click OK.
- Hide the TextFridge window by clicking on one of the two small refrigerators.
- Press the mouse button on the icon of the application in the dock and select Options/Open at Login.

In this way, TextFridge is always available to appear as soon as you click on the small refrigerator in the menu bar.
You can also press the alt and cmd keys (⌥ and ⌘) to make the window visible just long enough to drop a text on a line or to take a text from a line.

➞ Avoid closing the application: prefer to make it invisible (release the keys or click one of the small refrigerators).

Clipboard
TextFridge's drag-and-drop can be a substitute for copy-and-paste and this application can be used as a kind of multi-clipboard (for texts only).
One of the colors can be kept empty for this use.

TextOnTrays
TextOnTrays's users can import data from that rather old software. Here is the procedure to follow:

- Open Textfridge.
- Back to the Finder, keep down the alt key (⌥) and open the Go menu.
- Choose Library.
- Open the Preferences folder.
- Look for a file named TextOnTraysPrefs or TextOnTrays2Prefs (according to your version of TextOnTrays), drag that file and drop it on TextFridge's window.

TextFridge Data is replaced by TextOnTrays data. (You can undo the operation, but only until the next change in TextFridge.)

I. Brief description

II. All (or almost all) in two pictures

III. List of functionalities (How to...)

IV. Some tips