Comments on: Jumpcut: Super slick clipboard extender

By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » SOHO Notes 5.6.0: Clipboard, blogging improvements

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:27:14 +0000

[...] This means the the DockNote now contains a viable clipboard recorder, which could potentially replace apps like JumpCut or CuteClips. [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 07 May 2006 22:45:37 +0000

That was poor form on my part.

Belated link love now features in the post. Sorry about that!

By: matonmacs

matonmacs — Sun, 07 May 2006 22:36:20 +0000

Oh come on Tim, can’t I get a little link love to my blog (Mat on Macs). :)

I’ve tried to make myself use the Clipboard module in QS (being a huge fan), but most if the time it just seems easier to mouse up to the menubar. I’ve since discovered another nice clipboard manager iPaste, which is quite cool for having on feature I haven’t seen anywhere else—a contextual menu. This, I think, could be very cool if they’d add labels to it (I posted this suggestion to their forums but got no response). iPaste is $12.99, though, so I think I’ll stick to the free Jumpcut for the time being.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 06 May 2006 04:29:52 +0000

The problem with Quicksilver is the documentation is so sparse. I had no idea it did anything like this. I’d also never be able to figure out its manually managed “shelves” without instruction. Someone really needs to write a lengthy tutorial or a book on Quicksilver.

Thanks for pointing out Jumpcut. It’s simple and easy to use. I like it.

By: mc

mc — Fri, 05 May 2006 16:23:29 +0000

Since you mention Textpander, why not also mention that Butler (by Peter Maurer) comes with the same functionality. I have 10 clipboards, ctrl-cmd-v brings them, I see them all at once, and hitting the number they are given lets me paste that one in. Totally excellent and easy and already part of a piece of software I use every day. You have to use a different Butler command to get some text snippet dumped out, but I have about 10 of those, too…

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 05 May 2006 15:38:34 +0000

I haven’t counted them exactly, or performed rigorous empirical testing, but it’s my gut feeling that the dedicated clipboard extender apps deliver the clips you want with fewer keystrokes.

Of course, as you suggest, fewer keystrokes are not the only thing. I know people too who would rather perform the extra keystrokes in Quicksilver, just because it’s Quicksilver.

By: Ted Pavlic

Ted Pavlic — Fri, 05 May 2006 15:31:29 +0000

I’m not an expert with this, but I think that QuickSilver’s Clipboard plugin gives you similar functionality. You can specify how large you want your clipboard and quickly locate past entries to paste into whatever application you want.

QuickSilver also has a “shelf” that is like a clipboard history, but you manually manage it. It’s sorta like “buffers” in VI — clipboards that you manage yourself. You can put anything on the shelf at any time and take anything off it at any time. You can also paste things in from the shelf just like it is a clipboard history.

Maybe these apps have an edge on QuickSilver’s plugins. Again, I’m not an expert. However, I know lots of people who would live and die by the QuickSilver clipboard history and shelf.