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As a writer and editor , I could n’t be nigh as productive as I am without a multiple - Clipboard utility — a program that stores multiple recent contents of the Clipboard , rent you glue any of them quickly and easily . In addition to the productivity pull ahead such public utility fling , they also protect you from losing important content because you copied or cut it , then absentmindedly copied or rationalize something else , replace that content , before you had a prospect to glue .
I ’ve antecedently reviewed Jumpcut , PopCopy , and CuteClips , three multiple - Clipboard utilities that focus on simplicity and ease of use ; Jumpcut remains one of my favorite OS X add - ons . But if you ’re willing to forgo some of that simplicity , PTH Pasteboard Prooffers a whole lot more functionality .
Like other such utilities , every time you replicate or cut depicted object — text edition , picture , and so on — to the Clipboard , PTHPasteboard Pro mechanically bring that content to its own leaning of Clipboard cognitive content , which the developer calls a pasteboard ; you choose how many particular the pasteboard holds , as well as the maximal sizing of items to be save . you’re able to access those contentedness via a freestanding pasteboard windowpane or — my penchant — a card - saloon menu . tap an ledger entry in the window or menu to like a shot paste it into the current papers or text field .
( Two bonus you get with the window approach , or else of the card - Browning automatic rifle carte du jour , are a lookup theater of operations for finding special text — a great feature if you ca n’t remember when you contract that crucial paragraph you draw a blank to paste — and a bombastic prevue of the contents of a particular pasteboard fender by holding the cursor over that detail . )
Right - suction stop on an item in the window , or access its hierarchic card in the menu , and PTHPasteboard give you more options : It testify you the name of the software in which you re-create or cut the cognitive content , the date and time it was add up to the pasteboard , and a tally of lines , Bible , and characters . you could also take away the detail from the pasteboard , add it to a different pasteboard ( more on that below ) , format it , or use a custom filter to it .
These filters are one of the standout features of PTHPasteboard Pro . you may apply them when pasting contentedness from the pasteboard , and they can strip formatting from text ; alteration case , spacing , and format ; clean house up HTML and lines ; find and replace schoolbook ; and even execute various miscellaneous tweak such as shortening URLs and processing text using shell scripts . you’re able to also create your own filters , and you’re able to createsequentialfilters , which fuse multiple filter into a individual action .
PTHPasteboard lets you set up up keyboard shortcuts for various actions , such as pasting from the pasteboard , applying filter , and belt down up a pasteboard menu directly under the shiner pointer for quick access . Unfortunately this last feature does n’t always work properly ; sometimes the menu appears across the screen .
Another useful lineament is that you ’re not limited to a exclusive pasteboard ; PTHPasteboard let you make as many different pasteboard as you demand . The principal one will continue to arrest contents you simulate or cut to the Clipboard , updating in real clip . you’re able to use the additional pasteboard for ofttimes used bits of text and image that you want to get at quickly . I regain myself creating a temporary pasteboard just for content I was using many times in a special document . ( You add content to alternate pasteboards by copying it to the chief pasteboard and then using the hierarchic carte du jour mentioned above . )
For those who work on multiple Macs , an especially appealing characteristic is the capability to mechanically sync the Main pasteboard ’s contents between Macs on your local meshwork . While some utilities — including previous Gems ClipboardSharing and DropCopy — let you manually transfer the current substance of the Clipboard between Macs , PTHPasteboard can actively keep the entire principal pasteboard on two Macs contemporize . In other words , if I imitate or tailor something to the Clipboard on my screen background Mac , that copy message automatically appears in the pasteboard on my laptop computer , as well , straightaway usable for pasting . ( you could choose to encrypt the synchronize information for security . ) The feature generally do work well , although I did have some trouble getting my desktop Mac ’s pasteboard to appear in PTHPasteboard on my laptop computer .
If you ’re concerned about PTHPasteboard storing sensitive datum in its cowcatcher , you could have PTHPasteboard Pro disregard content copied or trend from within particular programs , such as Keychain Access and 1Password .
Because it supply so many features — more than I could cover here — PTHPasteboard is n’t intimately as uncomplicated to apply as something like Jumpcut , but the impart functionality gives it an impressive amount of potentiality for improving your work flow .
