MarkMyWords can receive data on multiple ways from external sources
Receiving data from RSS-Readers NetNewsWire and Vienna
Receiving data via Bookmarklet from Internet-Browsers
Receiving data via Drag'n Drop onto the Dock-Icon
Sending data from RSS-Readers NetNewsWire and Vienna
Vienna:
To send data from Vienna to MarkMyWords a plugin is required. You can download the plugin from the MarkMyWords Extras Website, which can be loaded by selecting the Menu-Item Help > Visit MarkMyWords Extras Website. Using the Plugin, data of the current selected article in Vienna can directly be sent to MarkMyWords.
As of version 2.5 of Vienna, only data containing title, link and selected text of the current article are being send to MarMyWords.
NetNewsWire:
To send data from NetNewsWire to MarkMyWords select an article and hit the Button "Post to Weblog" from the Toolbar. By doing so, a file-chooser-sheet will open, select the MarkMyWords-Application from your disk as destination. If an another program has been selected previously, call up the NetNewsWire Preferences and choose the MarkMyWords-Application from the Posting-Pane.
The handling of the data within MarkMyWords is being discussed under the topic Receiving data via Bookmarklet or RSS-Readers.
Sending data via Bookmarklet from Internet-Browsers
A Bookmarklet is similar to a standard Bookmark, but a Bookmarklet executes an action for the browser rather than directing a website-destination.The Bookmarklet can be dragged directly into your browser from the MarkMyWords-Extras website, just select the Menu-Item Help > Visit the MarkMyWords Extras Website.
To send text from an internet-webpage to MarkMyWords, just select the appropriate text within the website and hit the Bookmarklet. Following data is being send to MarkMyWords:
Title of website
URL of website
Text, that has been selected on the current website
Receiving data per Bookmarklet or RSS-Readers
When data has been sent via a RSS-Reader or a Bookmarklet, MarkMyWords creates a new document and opens a sheet displaying all received data. All values of the received data can be edited. Furthermore there is an option to strip HTML-Tags from the values content and summary. MarkMyWords recognizes HTML-Tags and select the option to strip tags automatically.
If there are no HTML-Tags in the content or summary value and the option to strip tags is being selected some formatting of the text like line-breaks or paragraphs could get lost while importing.
Which data is being send to MarkMyWords via the RSS-Readers also depends on the feeds itself. Not all feeds offer all possible values, so the amount of data being served differs vastly from feed to feed.
Further, there is the option to insert the received data directly into a template which can be chosen via the pulldown-menu at the beginning of the import-sheet. To place all values at their appropriate locations within a template special markers are used:
{* MMW_External_Title *} -- Title of received data
{* MMW_External_Body *} -- Content
{* MMW_External_Link *} -- Direct link to the article
{* MMW_External_SourceName *} -- Name of source
{* MMW_External_Author *} -- Author of the current article
{* MMW_External_Summary *} -- Summary of the article
{* MMW_External_Permalink *} -- Permanent link to the article
{* MMW_External_SourceFeedURL *} -- Feedurl of the source
{* MMW_External_Source_HomeURL *} -- Homeurl of the source
{* MMW_External_CommentsURL *} -- Url to the comments of the article
You can use all or just selected markers in your templates. When no marker to a specific value is being found this one is simply being ignored.
Receiving data per Drag'n Drop onto the Dock-Icon
Any selected text can be dropped onto the MarkMyWords-Dock-Icon. The dropped text is being inserted into a new document automatically.