2/25/2024 0 Comments Macos best clipboard manager![]() The first clipboard management app that does everything Pasteboard does and allows for easy export/import of all the clipboards and filters is the one to get Pasteboard's lunch. It was a mess and not everything could be found. This left me picking through the guts of Pasteboard to figure out where the iCloud data was stored in a back up and recover years of passwords, server addresses, ssh logins, and such (yeah, yeah, now that stuff is in a password manager too). Of course iCloud is a bit of a stillbirth so while I assumed that the iCloud data would overwrite the local data, the reverse happened. There is room for improvement in this space too! I recently switched computers at home and at work and discovered there was no way to export all the filters and clipboards from Pastebot. That distinction goes to Unclutter, which of its three reasons for existing one is simple clipboard manager. I have recently discovered I like having a second clipboard manager running in tandem with Pastebot. One only needs to look at all 10 (11?) comments here and how many different apps have been mentioned.Īpple's solution would not bother with multiple clipboards, tons of programmable keyboard shortcuts, or even filters (let alone REGEX filters). Indie devs will do it better than Apple's half-hearted and usually killed off attempts. Even Scrapbook was useful in its clunky sort of way. While I have deep praise for Pastebot, which is itself the Lazarus-like successor to PTH Pasteboard (heck it still uses the amework), I would still like to see Apple do something with clipboards. IOS iOS 17 LaunchBar Mac Mac App macOS 14 Sonoma Pasteboard ![]() My concern is that Apple would do it in a way that pulled the rug out from them. I think there would still be room for indie apps if Apple added OS support for multiple clipboards. More indie apps don’t need to be Sherlocked Because of these limitations, over the years I’ve seen the market for third-party iOS and iPadOS clipboard managers dry up. Again, I don’t understand why Apple doesn’t want to make a modern API for this with all the necessary privacy controls for users. The clipboard management situation is even gloomier on iPadOS and iOS since, unlike the Mac, third-party apps can’t run with background privileges to monitor changes to your clipboard. That wouldn’t have happened if I was using macOS (or if Threads supported post drafts, but that’s a different story). A few minutes later, I had already forgotten that my “draft” was stored in the clipboard, so I copied something else, and with no way to get my original text back from the iPadOS clipboard, I had to rewrite the post from scratch. To give you an example: as I was putting together this post on Threads tonight with some tips I discovered, I realized I had to go back and double-check something else in the Threads app, so I copied my post (Threads doesn’t support saving as draft yet) and closed the composer UI. The lack of Mac-like clipboard management is one of the things I miss most from macOS when I work on my iPad. But it would be nice to have multiple clipboards on iOS, too, and Apple is in the unique position of being able to extend Universal Clipboard. I’ve been using LaunchBar’s Clipboard History feature for years, and it’s great. The classic MacOS had the Scrapbook app, and since Mac OS X 10.0 we’ve had hidden, partial support via the kill ring, but Apple has never made this a real feature. You lose the fear of wiping out something important, replaced with confidence that you can grab something in case you want it later and stash it away in the clipboard history. ![]() Once you know that copying something to your clipboard doesn’t destroy what’s there, your use of the clipboard can become far more extensive. Let me walk you through the reasons why non-nerds should care, why Apple should consider making this a built-in macOS feature, and what apps you should try out if you decide to go for it. At the end of that process, I ended up discovering that the most glaring feature omission in all of macOS might just be its lack of a clipboard manager. The two decades of modern macOS, Apple has addressed most of the basic needs of the average user.
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