Imagine a utility that bundles together the auto-expanding text snippet features of Textpander and the multiple clipboard functions of iClip.

CopyPaste + yType is it.

Like iClip or iSnip, it offers multiple clipboards and adds access through the contextual menu to make insertion even easier. It can also automatically record the history of the things that you have copied.

Like Textpander, this app offers predefined keyboard shortcuts for inserting blocks of frequently used text.

This makes working faster, of course, but also reduces the amount of errors in your typing. Further spelling errors are reduced by its ability to correct common spelling errors on the fly like Microsoft’s “autocorrect feature”.

The clipboard, text snippet features and preferences are all accessible through an icon in the Statusbar.

MacAddict Magazine describes it as “the turbo clipboard utility on steriods”. I’ve only been playing with CopyPaste for thirty minutes, but I can already see how this is going to make working in Apple Mail (and with text more generally) faster, more error-free and easier on the fingers.

CopyPaste is shareware (USD 30) and is available from the developer’s web site. It offers a thirty day free trial period during which you could play around with it and see if the utility lives up to its promise. That’s what I will be doing.

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Tags: Apple Mail, autocorrect, Clipboard, CopyPaste, snippet, text

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