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Copy and paste is essential to life. Copy text from Wikipedia and paste it into your research paper, or copy lines of text from an Office document and merge them in another document. If you work with text, copying and pasting is part of your daily routine, and sometimes, your life hangs in the middle of a clipboard entry.
That’s why you should give it more power. What if you could recall the last 100 things you copied with the click of a button? Paste in the 9th cell you just copied? Generate a snippet and immediately enter it in the text field?
Kinda easy. Try some of the utilities listed below.
1. Infection
Pasteomatic is not a clipboard manager but a snippet manager with a link to the clipboard. Download the app and add your most used code snippets to it and keep it running in the background.
Place the cursor in the text box and use the global hotkey to bring up a pop-up menu that lists all of your snippets. From here, you can search to find specific content, or select an excerpt from the list, press enter, and it will be pasted into a text box just like that.
2. ClipMenu
ClipMenu is a freeware clipboard manager for Mac. Latest version 1.0 is ready for Yosemite but in alpha stage. I have tested it and so far it is reliable but the alpha tag means that one day it may not be.
But for a freeware, ClipMenu is definitely worth a try. The pitch is very simple, using a global hotkey you can bring up a menu that lists your last five clipboard entries and show another 20 via the menu. You can use Cmd + 1 ARRIVE Cmd + 0 to copy one of the last 10 clipboard entries back to the current clipboard. You can also access the menu using the menu bar widget (which also supports Yosemite’s Dark mode).
If you click History window option you will see the last 100 entries. You can increase this number from the preferences window.
One cool feature that ClipMenu has is the bubble preview. So you can preview the entire text or image from the clipboard before pasting it somewhere.
3. CopyClip 2
CopyClip 2 costs $4.99 from outside the Mac App Store and comes with a 10-day trial. This is the most powerful clipboard utility here, and if you value your clipboard, it will be worth it.
CopyClip 2 is a natural evolution of CopyClip, which is still available in the App Store (as a free, ad-supported app). It brings an updated user interface in line with Yosemite and tries to paste content from as far away in your clipboard history as possible.
CopyClip can record your latest 230 clips. You can tell it to stop recording from the menu bar utility. It has another setting that I really like. You can also block CopyClip from recording on specific apps.
I really like the CopyClip popup that you can bring up with a global hotkey. It has two themes, light and dark. It features search and lists 10 clipboard items per page (section Cmd + FEMALE for quick copying of text also works here).
You can use the left and right arrow keys to navigate the pages. This, combined with Cmd + FEMALE keyboard shortcuts and the search feature make CopyClip the fastest way to restore clipboard text, which is really the whole point of clipboard utilities.
Winner: CopyClip 2
The $4.99 asking price may seem a bit too high for a clipboard utility but with CopyClip you’ll get the money you deserve.
If free is all you can do and you can live with fewer features, try the alpha version of ClipMenu.
Cross-platform use of the clipboard: Learn how you can use Pushbullet to automatically sync the clipboard between desktop and Android (even Macs) and see two clipboard managers Feature-rich for Android.
How do you make your work-related clipboard management easier? Do you use keyboard launcher? Text expander? Or a custom workflow? Let us know in the comments below.
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