Relic
Get Relic free
In this section: Paste
Paste

Drag an item out

Drag a row from the Relic window straight into another app. Text drops as text, an image drops as a picture, a file drops as the file.

· Windows, Mac, Linux

How to drag one out

Press the mouse down anywhere on a row, hold, and drag it out of the Relic window into another app. Let go over the place you want it. The window stays open while you drag, so you can drop and come back for the next one.

One item row in the Relic window: a small picture at the left showing it is an image, the title Office chair receipt, and a line under it reading Pixel 9, two days ago. The whole row is the drag handle. Grab the row anywhere and drag it out. Every row in the list works this way.

Dragging does not disturb anything else. Clicking, double-clicking and Ctrl + Click all still do what they normally do, because they happen when you let the button go without moving.

It works the other way round too: drop files onto the Relic window and they are saved to your Vault.

What lands in the other app

Relic hands the other app whatever suits it best.

  • A text item drops as text. Into a document, an email, a chat box, a form.
  • An image drops both ways. A folder window takes it as a file with a sensible name. Something like a document or a paint program takes the picture itself and puts it in the page.
  • A file drops as the file, keeping its original name.

Pictures and files that live in your vault but are not on this computer yet are fetched as you drag. The drop can take a moment while that happens.

What cannot be dragged

  • Secrets.A row Relic has marked as a secret, like an API key or a card number, is not a drag source. Copy it with the row's copy button instead.
  • Phones and tablets. Dragging out is a Windows, Mac and Linux thing. On a phone, use Share from the row menu.

For the other ways out of the window, see Copy as and Paste directly on select. The tour of an item row covers the buttons on the row itself.

Related