Bloggers and PC geeks usually copy lots of line while working, and maybe use clipboard managers to organize all of their copied text. Well, if you are a Firefox user, a really useful extension may be what you are looking for.

It is called QuickNote, and as the name suggests, it is an add-on that adds a simple notepad to Firefox in which you can copy and annotate everything you want.

Installing QuickNote is really simple, and can be done just by visiting the add-on page and, after this has been done, you have various ways of using it:

Shortcut, menu and right click start

There are basically three ways for starting QuickNote while you are browsing pages in Firefox:

• CTRL+F7: This is the simplest I guess, as you just press this keyboard shortcut and a sidebar notepad will be opened, and you can then type or copy any text you want.

  

• Tools Menu: Another way to start it, is from the Firefox’s Tools menu. There you will find a QuickNote field, where you can decide whether to start it in sidebar view as done before, or even floating and tab mode.

  

• Right Click: This is a very great features in my opinion! When selecting a text, you can right click on it, and select “Send to QuickNote: this will automatically copy that text to any open QuickNote session, or just start a new sidebar one if none is running yet.

  

Saving Notes

Sometimes you might just use QuickNote for “copy&paste” reasons, and by that I mean that you’d want to remember a website URL, or an installation code etc. But there may be times when you’d want to save the note you just typed.

To do this, just click on the little notepad on the right top angle of QuickNote’s interface and select “Save current tab as”, just give it a name, and your txt file will be ready to use!

Settings

The settings menu lets you modify the default settings as you wish: you can decide how the CTRL+F7 should behave (choosing which mode it should launch between sidebar, float and tab), customize background and font style, number of note tabs, and also saving location.

I think this is a really cool extension, and I guess you will like it after you try it and play with a little.

Installation Page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46

Photo Credit: Bartek Ambrozik