Drag and Drop from External Sources

A simple way to capture external content into Ultra Recall is Drag and Drop.

You can drag and drop with the left or right mouse button, but each works slightly different:

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Left button drag: When you drag with the left mouse button, the default drop behaviour is determined by the Options | Import setting: Store contents when importing files or web page addresses. You can override this default import behaviour (when applicable) by using several keyboard overrides when you drop:

•	Alt key: Create an Info Item that as is linked to the original source (link)

•	Ctrl key: Create an Info Item that stores the contents of the original source (copy)

•	Shift key: Create an Info Item that stores the contents of the original source, then deletes the original source (move)

•	Right button drag: When you drag with the right mouse button, when you drop a menu with the different choices is presented for your selection.

Note: Right button drag is not available in certain situations like dragging a URL from the address bar in most browsers, such as Internet Explorer or Netscape.

The above options are not always available, and several options exist depending on the source of the captured information. See the table below to view the details on each data source:

Application	Link	Copy	Move
Internet Browsers	Yes	Yes	No
Email Applications	No	Yes	No
Windows Explorer	Yes	Yes	Yes
Text from any application	No	Yes	No

Note: What happens when text that contain a URL is dropped within Ultra Recall is determined by the user setting: Tools | Options | Import | Identify and process URL in clipboard text. The two different options are:

Yes: Ultra Recall will attempt to create an Info Item based on the URL

No: Ultra Recall will always simply create an Info Item containing the text

Note: If the instance of Ultra Recall you wish to drop in is not visible, simply hover the mouse over the task bar icon for that instance of Ultra Recall, and after a slight delay it will be focused, allowing you to complete the drop operation.