In this case he manually copied and pasted the paragraphs. If you review this meetup, Tinderbox Meetup, Nov. 30, 2024 (Video): Note Curation Strategies for Thinking within Tinderbox, you’ll see the @bmgphd did something similar, but we added the use of explode and the .substr() operator to produce the $Names.
Exploding and then the judicious use of Tinderbox operators are the foundational skills needed to get the most out of operators. Copying and posting, use of OCR, drag and drop (e.g., from a csv file, PDF, markdown file, Word File, or reference manager, i.e., any number of ways to get at root text, help you get text into Tinderbox. Once the text is in Tinderbox, you can then use the operators to curate it (i.e., populate attribute values by atomizing its elements and start populating desired attribute values—it helps to remember that $Name and $Text are attributes, just like any other).