Products can\u0027t get better and companies can\u0027t grow, unless the developers are open minded. \u000a\u000aSince collabwriting is a research and knowledge management tool, if a collaborator want to share a critical piece of content that he got from some other source (may be he got it from a book or an offline journal, etc) why not allow him to share that? Instead of adding to comment, why not allow saving clip board content in the same way as you save highlighted excerpts? Since it is not a comment but a piece of content. This way we can share content not just from a webpage or pdf but also from other sources as well because you can\u0027t always expect all pieces of content from either a webpage or a pdf. If you have any valid reason for not allowing this, please enlighten us. Thanks.

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Products can\u0027t get better and companies can\u0027t grow, unless the developers are open minded. \u000a\u000aSince collabwriting is a research and knowledge management tool, if a collaborator want to share a critical piece of content that he got from some other source (may be he got it from a book or an offline journal, etc) why not allow him to share that? Instead of adding to comment, why not allow saving clip board content in the same way as you save highlighted excerpts?  Since it is not a comment but a piece of content. This way we can share content not just from a webpage or pdf but also from other sources as well because you can\u0027t always expect all pieces of content from either a webpage or a pdf. If you have any valid reason for not allowing this, please enlighten us. Thanks.

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Hey there 👋\u000a\u000aYou are totally right 😄\u000a\u000aOur idea is to build Collabwriting in a way to enable our users to highlight any kind of information they find and this includes Photos (Books, Journals, Printed Reports), Audio and Video as well.\u000a\u000aWhen it comes to books we currently support imports from Kindle. And we have a plan in the next 6 months to start working on our mobile app that will enable users to collect physical snippets through camera as well 😄\u000a\u000aWhen it comes to clipboard, again, great observation. We\u0027ve actually already partially developed this feature, but not to bug you with technical details, we hit a wall with browser\u0027s permissions to read user\u0027s clipboard.\u000a\u000aSo we paused a little bit on it to rethink the UX. Our biggest UX obstacle is that we would like to have at least some kind of warranty that copied snippet is somehow tied to the source. Nevertheless we have some ideas and we\u0027re working on it 😊\u000a\u000aWe\u0027re still a small team, yet we manage to push new features every 2 weeks and we\u0027ll continue doing so until Collabwriting is the go\u002Dto tool for doing any kind of research 😄

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