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Pasting with Lua Need to paste large amounts of text that never change? Curious about getting started with the programming language Lua? Check this tutorial out.

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VoodooPhone
This little web export plugin will export your document in such a way that you can view it on your iPhone even if you don't have internet! For more information, check out the VoodooPhone∞ site.

Bookmarklets
A Bookmarklet is a simple bookmark for a web browser (such as Safari, Firefox, or Camino) that runs little programs on the webpage you are viewing.
The VoodooPad bookmarklets allow you to use a bookmark to send selected text, or the current url to VoodooPad.
To install (and watch a demonstration of it) visit the VoodooPad Bookmarklet page∞.

Paste and Match Style
Sometimes you've got some text on the clipboard, and you want to paste it in to your page. But you know that since you copied it from Safari or Word that the text styling is just not going to match what you've set up on your page. And what a bummer that is. But wait- we've got that problem solved! Under the Edit menu, right next to the Paste command is another command labeled "Paste and Match Style". This will take what's on the clipboard and paste it into your page without any funky formatting. Just nice clean text the way you like it.

Following Links with the Keyboard
If the insertion point happens to be on a link in VoodooPad and you want to open it, you don't have to reach for the mouse. Just type command-L and VoodooPad will do the right thing. Instead of creating a new page it'll just open up the link that you are on. It even works for multi-word links so you don't need to worry about selecting it first.

Including the output of scripts in from your clippings folder
If you create a unix shell script, and place it in VoodooPad's clippings folder, it will be run when selected from the insert menu, and then the output created from the script will be inserted where you have the cursor.

Setting $PATH or other variables for scripts run from VoodooPad
If you want to set environment variables for your shell scripts, have a look at this Technical Q&A from apple:
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html∞

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