CuteClips 1.2: A smarter clipboard
CuteClips is a small app that stores the last twelve entries in your clipboard.
It can store up images, URLs, text or files in a nice smoked glass dialog, complete with preview and is activated by a hotkey
A new version, released today, offers a smart improvement to the way you can select the clippings. In the past, you has to tab, or use the arrow keys or mouse to select the clip you wanted.
Now, hitting Control reveals the numbering of the clips, and hitting the corresponding Function key paste that entry in:
There are other utilities that do that same thing, notably CopyPaste, which offers far richer features but is also far more expensive (USD 30). Quicksilver can do this too, but lacks the facility to make a clipping sticky and thus available forever (it doesn’t actually lack this — see Henning’s remarks in the comments).
CuteClips does the job for me, making my work in Mail.app and elsewhere faster and more efficient.
It costs only 5 euros (USD 6) and is available from the developer’s web site 
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Tags: Clipboard, clippings, CopyPaste, cute clips, helpful apps, Productivity, quicksilver
March 19th, 2006 at 2:34 am
You might also want to try iSnip. It is a freeware solution which does a fantastic job of managing clippings. I specially like its “manage snippets” function.
March 19th, 2006 at 3:46 am
A better FREE solution as far as I’m concerned is Jumpcut which put an item in your menubar, and also has a user definable hotkey which brings a bezel allowing you to scroll through your entries with the arrow keys. Plus, it saves up to 25 items. I guess on the down side it does not have have a paste as plain text (I use plainclip through QS for that), or a sticky entires (I use Textpander for that) nor does it do a preview for images (tho’ it does preview text snippets). It looks like Jumpcut hasn’t be updated in a while, which is too bad, because it fits my way of working better than any other enhanced clipboard I’ve tried.
March 19th, 2006 at 5:05 am
For over 18 months I’ve been using You Control, which gives you a 50-item clipboard module with pop-up menu selection, and menu-bar icon access. It is a commercial version of the olf freeware PTH Pasteboard.
But YouControl also also offers modules like a MenuCalendarClick in the menu bar, memory/disk/CPU monitors, menubar access to your Addressbook, and buttons to control iTunes from the menubar. More too (check the website), but I only use a couple of the modules. The multi-clipboard works well and is worth the price of the app alone.
http://www.yousoftware.com/control/
March 19th, 2006 at 5:39 am
Paul Haddad (http://www.pth.com/PTHPasteboard/) wrote a bunch of utilities. You Control bought them from him and developed them further, but some of the originals are still at Paul’s web site. I use PTHPasteboard and it works great. Just send him a donation via PayPal.
March 19th, 2006 at 8:18 am
Quicksilver doesn’t lack “the facility to make a clipping sticky and thus available forever”. If you invoke the clipboard history (you have to have the clipboard module installed), you can switch between “history” and “storage”. Or you can use the shelf.
March 19th, 2006 at 8:22 am
Henning. Nice one. Thanks. There’s always something new to know about Quicksilver!
And thanks to all for the other tips about other apps. I’ll check them out.
March 19th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
Hmmmm. Command-Shift-V is a command I use all the time in Word. Anyone know if that can be changed (the demo doesn’t let you access all the preferences.
March 19th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Yes, it can. The preferences allow the hotkey for activating the app to be changed.
May 31st, 2006 at 12:55 pm
I never see it mentioned anywhere, but I have been using StupidFish23′s Shaddow Clipboard for a few years now. It is full featured and yet simple to use. Out of several I have tried this remains my fave. I think it is $10
May 31st, 2006 at 4:26 pm
Never heard of it. Thanks for the tip. I’ll check it out.