When Captee is first installed, you will need to enable the permission to let it be included in the Share menu. The following steps illustrate how to enable Captee for the Share menu.

1. Select Edit Extensions… from the macOS Share menu. This will launch macOS Settings and raise a pop-up window.

There are no actions to be done in the pop-up. Press the Done button at the bottom of the pop-up window to dismiss it.

2. Select Added extensions.

A pop-up window showing 3rd-party extensions that can be enabled for sharing is raised. Captee should be listed with its Sharing checkbox unchecked.

3. Enable the checkbox for Sharing for Captee and select Done to dismiss the pop-up window.

Success! Captee is now enabled in the macOS Share menu.

Chrome puts the macOS Share menu in the top-level menu bar File > Share. Some history on why it was put there: 465302 - Introduce system Share menu item on OS X - chromium

Sharing selected text is long-standing request on the Chromium team. Ticket here: 916291 - Add Share to context menu on macOS - chromium

Captee supports translating styled text (for example bold, italic, code, underline, strikethrough) and lists to Markdown or Org markup. Headers however are not supported, as macOS does not provide this information in formatted text that is exchanged through the clipboard.

Org Protocol is a custom URL scheme for Emacs Org Mode. With Org Protocol, apps external to Emacs can share content and trigger actions to an Org file via a URL scheme.

Org Protocol support is available via the Scrim utility app (purchased separately).

To capture selected text via org-protocol you’ll need to define a capture template on the Emacs side first before you use Captee. Here’s an example capture template using the key "a" that uses the placeholders described in the Org capture protocol.

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(setq org-capture-templates
      '(
        ("a" "Captee Capture" entry
         (file+headline "~/org/captee.org" "Captee Captures")
         "* %:description\n%:annotation\n%i\n%?" :empty-lines 1)
        ))

Template placeholders you can use in a capture template are as follows:

Learn more about capture templates at the official Org website.