Edit: Even though you seem to mention it multiple times, it just dawned on me that you were talking about character styles and not paragraph styles... :(

I'm just going to leave this here anyways.



You could do this with table of contents.

You can make table contents by using paragraph styles as the "hook".

Layout > Table of contents...

Here I pretty much touched only those options that I've explained in the image.


   Click here for a bigger image
   
 

...and when you click OK, it will create me a nice list of all the text with the specified "yay" paragraph style in it: 



The rest should be simple.



If you make text changes to your document, you can update the TOC by first selecting the table of contents text block and then selecting Layout > Update table of contents...

How can I export only text with a distinctive character style from InDesign to a new document?
I have 2 computers, a faster iMac at work (i5) and an old macbook (C2DUO 2.0Ghz) at home.

The macbook at home has a SSD drive in it, I upgraded it and it's performance is really great.

Now I was wondering, instead of having to my macbook to work everyday, would be worth it to take the SSD out and boot into it from an external case?? This way I only need to take the drive and just plug it in.

I only have an uSB2 case.
