Increase Your Productivity with a Clipboard Manager

Have you ever found yourself flipping back and forth between a web page and, say, an email message so you can copy and paste mulitple pieces of information from the web page into your email message? If so, then you should use a clipboard manager application so you have access to multiple clipboards.

Another common use that I have is that I copy a some text and then I get distracted, forget to paste it immediately and end up copying other text. With Mac OS X’s clipboard, which can only hold one piece of data at a time, the first string of text would be overwritten and lost. Clipboard managers store dozens or more items. These items can then be restored from a list of items or sometimes using a keyboard shortcut. I like to use keyboard-based methods since I find them faster.

My clipboard manager of choice is LaunchBar since it’s also a great application launcher. Here are some other clipboard managers that you should consider: CopyPaste Pro ($30), PTHPasteboard Pro ($25), JumpCut (free) and Clips (20 Euros).

JumpCut is a one-trick pony. I’ve used it in the past. It’s simple to use and you can’t beat the price. Many years ago I used PTHPasteboard when they offered a version version. I liked it very much. I haven’t tried CopyPastePro or Clips. Clips is a relatively new clipboard manager but it has a lot of features and capabilities. It could be worth checking out.