Often in the development workflow, it is crucial to access the clipboard history, which lets you see a list of items you have copied recently.
Currently, I'm using Windows built-in clipboard management.
Clipboard history first appeared in Windows 10’s October 2018 Update (Version 1809). Currently, Clipboard history supports text, HTML, and images less than 4 MB in size. Just turn it on in Windows settings and press Windows+V.
I'm aware there are a lot of third-party apps and plugins for this also, like CopyQ, ClipClip, Ditto, ClipboardFusion and so on.
How do you manage your clipboard history?
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Windows' native clipboard manager is OK, even if it could get some improvements. Complementary to that, I also use Phrase Express, to keep a database of snippets of any kind (not just code), which also includes it's own clipboard manager.
That's an interesting approach 😉
Took a quick look and lots of useful features there 👍
Phrase Express is a very interesting program, as its snippets can be retrieved anywhere, no matter the context and they support custom input to pass variables. Phrase Express, ShareX, and FastStone Image Viewer (for its batch-processing capabilities) are among the first programs that I install on every new PC.
Also use ShareX and FastStone Image Resizer, both are 🔥🔥
Need to take a look at FastStone Image Viewer (didn't know they had one) as the Windows default one is buggy at times, recently ☹
Well, FastStone Image Viewer is practically the viewer plus Resizer and Screen capture. It's fast and very convenient if you want to do basic processing like cropping or resizing, especially if you take advantage of its keyboard shortcuts instead of point and click on the options. I use it for more than a decade probably, and I've donated to it twice to express my gratitude! :D
I used to use this gnome extension when I was running Ubuntu but I never found it useful. I guess my "clipboard history" need is far too low to justify using a specific tool.
Whenever I feel that I'll need to ctrl-v something later I save it in a tab in VS Code 😄
Hahah, I've used notepad for that before or even URL bar of the browser, especially for rich-text 😂😂
Yes! URL bar is a classic, and it even removes spaces
I use the clipboard manager built into Alfred (MacOS only) since I have the power pack and use Alfred so heavily. Alfred also holds my snippets, so it made sense. One thing I really like is that I can have it ignore apps, so it doesn't put things from my password manager into the clipboard history. I'm sure this is a common feature, but I wouldn't use a clipboard manager without it.
same! LOVE Alfred
I use Copied on macOS and iOS - it just got a major update after a long period of radio silence from the developer.
It has a lot of cool features like lists for snippets and js based filters you can apply when pasting.
I use Clipped on elementary OS.
It binds itself to the CtrlAltV shortcut, and even allows copying from history using numbers 1 through 9. Pretty great for a keyboard-centric approach.
I'm using Clipboard History Pro chrome extension. TBH, I didn't use any other extension or software, but nothing about it makes me complain.
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I use ArsClip on Windows: joejoesoft.com/cms/showpage.php?ci...
It's not only history. It allows you to create macros. I've found that to be very useful.
On the Mac I use Alfred (which has a ton of other features - a must-have for Mac users).
Clipx is a good software bluemars.org/clipx/
I use Flycut on Mac. It holds 40 entries on the clipboard. It's pretty great. Haven't used any other tools related to this, but I have no complaints about it.
ClipClip is great.