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Do I need a clipboard manager now?
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The way Apple implemented its clipboard manager makes it absolutely useless. You still need a real clipboard manager.
I thought as much, I did have a muck around with the built-in one, but it seemed a bit naff. I thought it may have been me.
Thank you
Thank you
redarm
macrumors newbie
I haven't gotten around to using Spotlight instead of my clipboard manager; mainly because it necessitates one more tap here. I would not call it "absolutely useless", or "naff" though. A nice little addition is the little icon that shows in which application the copy was made - handy to distinguish between (useless) AI Terminal commands and the ones I actually used.
tkermit
macrumors 68040
It literally fails at the most basic tasks, like reliably remembering everything you've copied.
redarm
macrumors newbie
OK, that would be a big minus. Is there any reason, or pattern in what it forgets, like passwords for example...?
Not to mention that once you paste an entry or just click out of the manager, the whole thing disappears and you have to call it again via its bizarro Spotlight UI. Oh and if you resize the thingy, it won't remember the size. I'm sorry, but it's truly sad pathetic garbage unbecoming of a company like Apple.
Stuck with Maccy here. The Spotlight version has one big problem nobody's mentioned — limited history with no way to expand it. For motion graphics work where I'm pulling timecodes, hex values, and asset paths across After Effects, Resolve, and a few browser tabs all day, I'd blow through it in a couple hours. No pinning of frequently-used snippets either. Fine for "what was on my clipboard 30 seconds ago", not a replacement for a real manager.
Apple_Robert
Contributor
Take a look at the app “paste.” I have been using it for years. It offers unlimited clipboard saves.
bogdanw
macrumors G3
Long list of clipboard managers https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/no-clipboard-manager.2383186/
gemyago
macrumors newbie
I think it really depends on what you do and how you work. I tried using some just to see if it makes a big difference in how I work, and after few weeks I realized that I hardly ever use anything other than basic copy/pasting, which is, well, a built-in functionality. But I know people who are using tools like this, and they say it keeps them more productive.
Alfred is excellent for using a library of text snippets, and also has a pretty robust clipboard manager. Been using it as an all-around Spotlight replacement for years now and it works great. Loads of features that TBH are beyond my willingness to tinker.
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried Raycast out of curiosity to see how it compares with the clipboard manager of Keyboard Maestro that I'm using (not free).
As far as I can see, Raycast:
-Doesn't preserve text formatting in clip previews
-The window is not resizable
-There's no way to keep the window open - you have to call it up again every time after each use.
Or am I missing something?
The last two items make Raycast as useless as Apple's clipboard manager for any power use of clipboard history, in my view.
QINirvana
macrumors newbie
Yeah, none of those three things are actually features of Raycast’s clipboard manager — you’re definitely a heavy clipboard user 🙂.It’s good enough for me though, since it’s integrated into Raycast and I don’t need to install another separate app.