![]() ![]() What's a bigger surprise is to find it in BetterTouchTool too. When copy and paste means Command-C and Command-V to you then it feels right that this feature should be in an app concerned with keyboards. Keyboard Maestro has keyboard in the title. Similarly, Keyboard Maestro costs $36 direct from the developer Unexpected clipboard managersĪlfred 3 is all about using your keyboard to find or launch things. That pastes the item in and Alfred's list goes away.Īlfred 3 is free but to get the clipboard manager you need the Powerpack add-on which costs $25 direct from the developer. Then scroll to one, press the Command keystroke or simply hit Return. Then there's also a search bar in the manager: start typing in something and Alfred will display everything you've copied that matches. So you know right away that pressing Command-3 will paste in the third item on the list. More, the top ten most recent ones will have a keystroke next to them. Tap the right keys and Alfred shows us a list of everything we've copied. That's chiefly because of the sheer speed and convenience. Now it's rare for us to go a day without using it. Until, that is, we found its clipboard manager features. It's a Spotlight replacement that does many things but as useful as we've found it, we tended to forget we had Alfred 3 installed. They are the very visual Paste 2 and the more text-based Copied.įor a simpler but in its own way powerful alternative, we use Alfred 3. We recommend two apps that are solely clipboard managers, that don't try to do anything else. The iPhone and iPad are more complicated. The choice then is not about what to buy but which to remember to use. It's also difficult because so many apps include this functionality that you may well have several already. This means that picking what's best for you is easy because any of them will do. Every one of them does the same job but they do it differently and often they include the clipboard manager as just one small part of all they provide. Which means that the market is wide open to third-party software developers and a plethora of them have stepped up. It's just not doing anything more and after all this time, Apple doesn't appear likely to add anything like a clipboard manager. This is a very good feature, we use it a lot, and it is making the clipboard a bit more active than it was. In practice, yes, that's what happens - nearly all of the time. In theory, if you copy something on your Mac, you can now immediately paste it on your iOS device or vice versa. In 9 years.Įxcept in 2017 when Apple did make a tweak to the clipboard on both iOS and Macs. ![]() It was a good implementation and nothing has needed to change so nothing has - and nothing has been added. To the derision of Android users, this was a marquee feature of iOS 3 and that was released in 2009. It took Apple two years to even include copy and paste in iOS. There's some question why it isn't part of macOS and iOS. ![]() So there's no question, you should have one. You get right back to what you were doing, you go right back to what you were concentrating on, faster by using one of these. It also feels faster, which is hugely significant. Never mind the times when it's hard to find what you last copied, even when it's a quick job it is still faster to use a clipboard manager than to hunt around. Most of the time, going back to copy something again is a matter of seconds - and yet still we know you should use a clipboard manager. There will be times when it's a pain going back to Word to do a finicky square selection in the middle of a paragraph but you will get it. There will always be times when you struggle to find that quote you copied off the web but it's true that you will get it. If you're now thinking that this is nice but hardly earth-shaking, then first we'd agree with you but second we'd be pretty sure that you've never tried one. That's what a clipboard manager does for us. ![]()
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