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Tapbots recently launched Pastebot 3, the newest version of its popular clipboard management software.

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Like prior versions of Pastebot, Pastebot 3 records everything you copy so that it's easy to find and paste when needed. You can store links and other content that you often paste, and organize the snippets by category in Custom Pastebins.

There are also rule-based Smart Pastebins for automatic organization, like every link or image copied from Safari. Smart Pastebins can be filtered by clipping size, type, file extension, creation date, text, text length, and more. Multiple parameters can be combined for detailed filtering, and custom notes can be added to clippings to make them easy to find via search.

You can create more powerful custom filters and apply them to text you've copied before pasting it. You can do things like convert to plaintext and remove smart punctuation, wrap what you're pasting in paragraph tags, convert to upper or lowercase, nix emojis, find and replace, extract URLs or phone numbers, remove empty lines, sort, and translate. Multiple filters can be combined and keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to the filters you use most often.

A quick paste menu can be activated with a Shift+Command+V keyboard shortcut for bringing up your most frequently used clippings in any app, and there's a Stack function for copying multiple items and pasting them one after another.

You can add apps to Pastebot's blacklist, and content copied from the apps on the list is never saved to Pastebot, which is useful for protecting passwords. All Pastebot content and filters sync across Macs with iCloud, and there are options for customizing how many clippings are saved. You can keep up to 1,500.

Tapbots says Pastebot 3 was built to work with Apple's Universal Clipboard feature, and when enabled and active, anything you copy on your iPhone is saved in Pastebot automatically. Clippings saved in Pastebot can also be pasted on iPhone. Pastebot 3 supports Apple Shortcuts and CLI access for automating clippings.

Pastebot 3 requires macOS Tahoe or later. It can be purchased directly from Tapbots for $39, with a year of updates included and the option to buy another year of updates for $19. There's also a Mac App Store purchase option with a $24.99 per year or $2.99 per month subscription. Pastebot customers who enter a Pastebot 2 license key can get a $12.99 upgrade discount on the direct purchase option. New customers can try the app for 14 days.

Article Link: Pastebot 3 for Mac Adds Rule-Based Organization, Powerful Paste Filters
 
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I've been waiting a long time for an update to Pastebot. I like it.

And I had to scroll straigh to the end to see if they added my least favorite feature, and they did not. No subscription required. Whether it makes more financial sense or not I'd rather pay once, especially with upgrade pricing.

I'll check it out. Universal Clipboard support explicitly is especially nice, that's a tricky one.
 
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Windows clip board is really awesome since my office computer has this, and i use the functioning in office. But its annoying mac OS up to sequoia does not have this. I heard apple has a tahoe clipboard, but for those who have tahoe, does apple's clipboard match windows functionality? I like how I can just a keyboard short cut to bring up small menu of copied items on windows.
 
Windows clip board is really awesome since my office computer has this, and i use the functioning in office. But its annoying mac OS up to sequoia does not have this. I heard apple has a tahoe clipboard, but for those who have tahoe, does apple's clipboard match windows functionality? I like how I can just a keyboard short cut to bring up small menu of copied items on windows.
⌘+space+4 brings up a list of items I have copied in macOS Tahoe (via the Spotlight search GUI).
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Windows clip board is really awesome since my office computer has this, and i use the functioning in office. But its annoying mac OS up to sequoia does not have this. I heard apple has a tahoe clipboard, but for those who have tahoe, does apple's clipboard match windows functionality? I like how I can just a keyboard short cut to bring up small menu of copied items on windows.
CMD + Space > CMD + 4
 
Ain’t working for me bud, maybe cause I’m on golden gate idk
Hmm… I now noticed you have to press the keys one at a time for it to work.

1. Hold down cmd.
2. Press space then 4 (while keeping cmd down)
3. Release cmd.

At least you don't have to do it in two steps (i.e. cmd space then cmd 4). 🙂

Or is it different in Golden Gate?
 
Hmm… I now noticed you have to press the keys one at a time for it to work.

1. Hold down cmd.
2. Press space then 4 (while keeping cmd down)
3. Release cmd.

At least you don't have to do it in two steps (i.e. cmd space then cmd 4). 🙂

Or is it different in Golden Gate?
Alr I see, the only difference is that you can keep holding cmd lol but thanks anyways 😄
 
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Check out CopyPaste. It is the best, hands down. And not-subscription option.
 
How about Copy‘Em? That was a one time purchase for me.
I used to use Pastebot 2, and then Paste regularly, and I've tested PastePal and Pastebot 3, but the best clipboard manager for me is Copy 'Em. I store a lot of clippings permanently, for example terminal commands for Mac and Linux, regexes, paths, and code.

Important features for me:
  1. Back up & restore only the "permanent" clippings locally, without cloud sync.
  2. Not having an easy way to accidentally delete the permanent clippings.
  3. Search clippings by title, with a GUI capable of displaying even long titles fully.
  4. Organizing clippings to categories and being able to limit the search to a specific category.
Unfortunately, Copy 'Em is not a very pretty app. PastePal almost has the features I need and is quite pretty, but its local backup feature doesn't back up clipping titles (making the whole feature useless for me), and it can't display long titles fully (you can't make its window wider). In Paste, it's easy to accidentally delete important clippings (by pressing the Delete key), and then they're gone forever because Paste doesn't allow local backup/restore. Pastebot 3 doesn't even display clipping titles (or "notes" as it calls them), doesn't allow searching just one category, and I don't think it has features #1 or #2 either.

But I'm still looking for a clipboard manager that's prettier than Copy 'Em, and I would also like it to have the following features:
  • It should prioritize (by listing first) those search results where the search term was found in the clipping title.
  • Being able to add "placeholders" in clippings that would work like they do in IDE code snippets, allowing you to edit the placeholders (and jump to the next placeholder with the Tab key) before pasting the clipping.
UPDATE: I realized (after a chat with an AI) that many so-called "text expander" apps have all the six features I listed above, and I found a great one that doesn't require a subscription (not naming it lest you think I'm its developer). For plain clipboard history purposes, I think I can just use the macOS 26 Spotlight's clipboard history.
 
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The subscription on that app is a robbery. I’ve been using Pop for a while now, and clip transformation features like URL to QR code and rich text to markdown are killer. Plus, there’s so much interface customization and best of all, no subscription.
 
I use Unclutter and have been for many years. Plus, it is more than just clipboard history. Using Notes and Files features all day long.
 
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