Auto Book Wiki

Auto Book is a light-weight productivity suite focused on text handling. It's based on the design principles of transparency, user empowerment, and privacy. Auto Book runs entirely locally on your computer and never, ever sends data over the internet.

Auto Book's Data Extraction feature automatically captures information from emails, assigning each item to its corresponding data column and storing it in a tab-separated text file. Its designed both for bilateral and unilateral use. Perfect for extracting purchase order details, it eliminates the need for tedious copy-paste operations.

In addition to extracting data, it can convert dates found in extracted data to a user-defined format, and project folders can be created with the click on a button based on the extracted data – e.g. C:\Clients\[Clientname]\[Date].[PO-Number]. There's also a convenient Data Viewer which shows the summed values of each column.

The name “Auto Book” comes from its ability to automatically book purchase data. Find more info on this feature in the Data Extraction Overview. You'll find the documentation in the Data Extraction Manual, although the newest features such as the Date Converter and OpenAI API interface are not covered yet.

The Data Extraction happens locally on your computer (via the Windows Clipboard), so it does not, in principle, create a vulnerability for hacking.

The new Clip Manager revolutionizes how you use your clipboard. It not only makes copy-paste operations more efficient, but also connects your clipboard to an infinite text repository. With what might be the world’s easiest and most flexible search function, you can find any information that’s ever passed through your clipboard within fractions of a second – even from years ago.

For more info, have a look at the Clip Manager User Manual.

Not a big reader? Get started:

• Open the Basic Configuration by clicking the Clip tab – adjust as needed.
• Press CTRL+C to capture some text.
• Press the Clip Preview hotkey (CTRL+WIN+V by default) to see your captured clips.

Even so, please make sure to check out my pride and joy, the Search Function – it's literally more powerful than any other I am aware of. Also know that you can save and reload Pin Sets. As a compromise, maybe the read the Introduction at least?

Quickly type formulas or mix math with text in the Notes panel, keeping everything stored for future reference.

Type an = sign after the formula to immediately get the result. Use M1, M2, etc. to reference previous results. Type -- immediately below tabular data and then = in the following line to sum columns of data. (Detailed docu coming up.)

Define abbreviations for frequently used text snippets. This system-wide feature saves time when writing emails or GPT prompts. See Extra tab.

Drag and drop files or folders onto the Databases panel to copy the file list to your clipboard or save it as a text file in the parent folder.

Auto Book is completely free to use. There is no catch. And no, you're not the product either

I may introduce a pro version at a later time, but the current free software will continue to work as it is perpetually.

Download Auto Book ZIP-Archive

To run Auto Book, just unzip the archive and double-click autobook.exe. No installation is required.

Auto Book is free to use.

You may not modify, translate, de-compile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise decode Auto Book; or sublicense, sell, rent or lend Auto Book to anyone else. No liability is assumed by the author. (See license-terms.txt in the ZIP package.)

The software does not send any user data over the internet. All data remain local on your computer.

My name is Ulrich Leininger and I'm the developer behind Auto Book. I was born in Germany, spent a decade in China and a few years ago settled in Saigon, Vietnam, where I run my company Logitope LLC.

I created Auto Book to solve a frustrating problem: some of my best clients were sending purchase orders via email, and I had to manually copy-paste the data into my accounting system. This mindless task led to procrastination and wasted time. Auto Book solves this with a single hotkey, automating data capture, saving time, reducing errors, and eliminating the tedium of copy-paste operations.

Seeing the Auto Book programming code in action – how countless functions work together to deliver the desired result – lifted my spirits and inspired me to expand its capabilities. This led to the development of additional features, with the new Clip Manager emerging as the most important.

I hope you find Auto Book as useful and enjoyable as I do. If there’s sufficient interest, I’d love to continue improving it. Please send feedback or suggestions to autobook-feedback@logitope.com – I’m always happy to hear from users!