Good clipboard managers?
December 13, 2010 9:54 PM Subscribe
Can you recommend a good (Windows) clipboard manager?
I do lots of website coding, and I'm tired of flipping between copy documents and my html to paste various pieces. I'm looking for a quality clipboard manager which will allow me to copy multiple items and then paste multiple items in the order of my choosing, likely by assigning them to a hotkey. For instance, CTRL+C+1, CTRL+C+2, CTRL+C+3, etc copies and CTRL+V+1, CTRL+V+2, CTRL+V+3 pastes.
I do lots of website coding, and I'm tired of flipping between copy documents and my html to paste various pieces. I'm looking for a quality clipboard manager which will allow me to copy multiple items and then paste multiple items in the order of my choosing, likely by assigning them to a hotkey. For instance, CTRL+C+1, CTRL+C+2, CTRL+C+3, etc copies and CTRL+V+1, CTRL+V+2, CTRL+V+3 pastes.
Ditto or Clipboardic, because they are both part of the Liberkey suite so I don't have to install another one-function utility. As all Liberkey apps are portable, there is no installation or entry in the windows registry; even updating is dealt with.
Bonus: If you install Liberkey in your dropbox, all the apps are available (and up-to-date) on all your (windows) systems.
posted by Akeem at 3:10 AM on December 14, 2010
Bonus: If you install Liberkey in your dropbox, all the apps are available (and up-to-date) on all your (windows) systems.
posted by Akeem at 3:10 AM on December 14, 2010
Best answer: I quite like ClipX for this. It's small, it can be run from a thumb drive, and it can remember history across sessions.
And here's a listing of some other portable clipboard managers.
posted by seikleja at 3:18 AM on December 14, 2010
And here's a listing of some other portable clipboard managers.
posted by seikleja at 3:18 AM on December 14, 2010
I ditto Ditto. You can assign hotkeys to the 10 most recent copied items or you can bring up a list of all recently copied items and paste using either keyboard shortcuts or by clicking. Also, it keeps a fairly long history of what you've copied, which comes in handy to temporarily store text you're too lazy to save and know you'll use within the next day or so. You can also search the copied items; so I'll use it to find that one url I copied a few days back or to restore a block of text lost in a system crash.
posted by strekker at 3:57 AM on December 14, 2010
posted by strekker at 3:57 AM on December 14, 2010
ArsClip does exactly this, and I've been quite pleased with it.
posted by SuperSquirrel at 9:29 AM on December 14, 2010
posted by SuperSquirrel at 9:29 AM on December 14, 2010
Response by poster: Couldn't seem to get Ditto to behave as expected. I think ClipX is going to do the trick.
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