Quick Tip: Get a Clipboard Manager

In an age of vast com­puter mem­ory (well, rel­a­tively speak­ing), it’s pretty arbi­trary at this point that our com­put­ers have a clip­board that only “holds” one item at a time.

Any­one else been burned by acci­den­tally copy­ing over some­thing you were “sav­ing” in the clip­board? Or how many times have you opened a text edi­tor just to paste some text therein while you were copy­ing mul­ti­ple things?

Enter the clip­board man­ager, which basi­cally keeps a his­tory of things you’ve copied to pick at a later date. Think of it, well, like a real clip­board: what you “clip” later is sim­ply put on top of your pre­vi­ous clip­pings and you can eas­ily get back to all of them.

Here are some I rec­om­mend; pick accord­ing to your oper­at­ing system:

• Par­cel­lite (Linux)
• ClipX (Win­dows, XP anyway)
• Clip­per (OS X)¹
• Jump­cut (OS X)²

Enjoy!

1. I haven’t used this one, but it was the best of what I sur­veyed on the inter­net. If you know a bet­ter one, let me know! ↩
2. I’ve been informed that Jump­cut is bet­ter than Clip­per, if only because Clip­per fea­tures no key­board short­cut. ↩