When working on a Mac, you can only copy and paste one thing at a time. This can really disrupt your flow, especially if you’re an editor or researcher who has to navigate different parts of the text. Or work with code and numbers.
You can solve these problems using the clipboard manager. These are specially designed applications or browser extensions that allow you to copy many different things at once (whether text, code or images) and keep a history of them so you can access them again later.
One of the best options I’ve found is Paste – Endless Clipboard, which I use as a Mac app but can also be downloaded to your iPhone or iPad. On the Apple App Store page for Paste, the developers describe it as “a time machine for your clipboard,” which I think sums it up perfectly.
You can easily find any image, file, link or text you’ve ever copied on any Apple device you use. For this reason, I credit Paste with making me more productive when editing and calmer – I’m less likely to fumble around looking for things if I know they’re all in my pasting history.
Never lose touch again
The clipboard space you have access to with Paste is described as “unlimited,” meaning that once you start using it, you’ll never have to comb through your browsing history or the Notes app on your iPhone again. It also makes work much easier, especially if you are a developer, designer, editor or even sales and support professionals who work with a lot of data at once.
Paste also offers seamless iCloud syncing, meaning everything copied from your Mac, iPhone or iPad is saved in the same place. But instead of just a big vault of all your copied stuff, there are tools that make Paste work smarter, like an intelligent search feature so you can easily find what you’re looking for, and a custom rules tool that determines which apps and devices can save data in clipboard. Just keep in mind that your iCloud and physical storage is used here, so you might want to keep track of the copies you no longer want.