On Copy and Paste (again)…

I’m still experimenting with the idea of copy-and-paste as a valid integration method. This is what I have so far –

I can pop a modal on any page that gives me a bunch of configurable copy options for the current content (envision this on an admin UI, though my site doesn’t really have one). You can click a button to put the result on the clipboard (and close the modal), or preview to see what it will look like.

(The “Transmit” tab will do the same thing, but actually send the resulting text to some URL as a GET or POST. I’m not really sure about that yet. I have another idea for “Submit” that will submit the content as form data, but I’m still undecided. Clearly, this is feature creeping a bit…)

Is this a good idea? I don’t know. But editors are going to copy-and-paste whether we want them to or not, so can we coerce that pattern into something more controlled and productive?