I'm a long-time lurker and wanted to share a small project I just launched to solve a problem that was driving me crazy.
The Problem: My workflow for any kind of research project involves having a dozen tabs open and a master Google Sheet. I found myself constantly breaking focus just to copy snippets of text, switch to the Sheet, find the next empty row, and paste. It's a simple task, but the context switching was a huge productivity drain.
The Solution: I built a simple, no-frills Chrome extension called Copy2Sheet. It lets you highlight any text on a webpage, press a keyboard shortcut, and it instantly appends that text as a new row in a Google Sheet you've specified.
The goal is to reduce that data entry friction to near zero. You find something interesting, you press a key, and you move on without losing your train of thought.
It’s built with vanilla JavaScript and the Google Sheets API, and I tried to keep it as lightweight as possible.
It's free and available on the Chrome Web Store. I'd genuinely love to get this community's feedback—any thoughts, feature requests, or harsh critiques are very welcome.
mhova•5mo ago
I'm a long-time lurker and wanted to share a small project I just launched to solve a problem that was driving me crazy.
The Problem: My workflow for any kind of research project involves having a dozen tabs open and a master Google Sheet. I found myself constantly breaking focus just to copy snippets of text, switch to the Sheet, find the next empty row, and paste. It's a simple task, but the context switching was a huge productivity drain.
The Solution: I built a simple, no-frills Chrome extension called Copy2Sheet. It lets you highlight any text on a webpage, press a keyboard shortcut, and it instantly appends that text as a new row in a Google Sheet you've specified.
The goal is to reduce that data entry friction to near zero. You find something interesting, you press a key, and you move on without losing your train of thought.
It’s built with vanilla JavaScript and the Google Sheets API, and I tried to keep it as lightweight as possible.
It's free and available on the Chrome Web Store. I'd genuinely love to get this community's feedback—any thoughts, feature requests, or harsh critiques are very welcome.