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One that I don't see on here that I literally use every damn day: Ditto
It's a clipboard manager. Copy and paste still work the same, but you can now Ctrl + ` (it's the same key as ~ or "tilde", next to the 1 key) and it brings up a little list of all the things you've copied... ever. It saves through computer restarts and is text searchable. It also allows you to hotkey the most recent 10 items by pressing Ctrl + (number 1-0) after Ctrl + `.
I'm a software dev, I use this all the time, and every time I've ever used it during a screen share the people watching have asked me "what the hell was that? it looks so useful".
Not a chrome extension but a desktop app for Windows that does it called Ditto. The application runs in the system tray and records your history across all apps and has a quick toggle that brings up your history anywhere. You can also sync history across multiple PC's. https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/index.php
Why use ArsClip over a better alternative like Ditto? (which is FOSS)
I've used Ditto for so many years now. It's fantastic, highly customizable, and still an active project.
Nobody suggested a clipboard manager. I use Ditto Even though you can see clipboard history now with windows, ditto is still more efficient.
At work I also use Q-Dir as a file manager. It lets you have multiple explorer in one window. And for each one you have tabs. Besides when starting it you don't need to reopen all your explorer.
Doesn't do exactly what you want, but a clipboard manager like Ditto lets you copy (CTRL + C) multiple things, then paste (using a special shortcut, like CTRL + SHIFT + V) all those things at once.
Windows 10 has a simple clipboard manager built-in. But I believe it doesn't support pasting multiple things at once. You'd need a more advanced clipboard manager for that.
Use both simultaneously. Split your workflow into 2 and use the laptop for lighter tasks. Use a virtual kvm to share the keyboard and mouse and a clipboard that syncs between 2 systems to share text and files between both.
I'm a systems administrator (mostly UNIX & Linux), so I usually get a lot of freedom, but I have also worked for places that processed medical payments and collected treatment records in the past, so I feel your pain. There is at least one Windows application I cannot live without (AutoHotkey) and a few other small, almost insignificant applications that do small but immensely helpful tasks. Too many companies totally ignore small utilities that help automate desktop tasks. I'm sure that the time savings would be in the billions if companies with implement some of these tools and train people on their use.
Two weeks ago I introduced someone on our staff to Ditto and about once a day she instant messages me about how it's saved her so much time and how such a small tool can be so helpful.
On a loosely-related note, if your work involves computers, allow me to recommend this awesome free clipboard program.
It turns your Windows clipboard into a history. Ctrl+v still pastes the last thing, but when you hit the hotkey to trigger Ditto, (I bound it it Ctrl+`) then you can paste any of the PREVIOUS things you had.
It's great. Doesn't take anything away, and adds a great little power.
Ditto. It creates a history of your clipboard so if you need to copy multiple things just copy them once and go through the history when you need it. It's that thing I never though I needed until I started using it, I can't live without it now.
I've been using Ditto for clipboard management on Windows for a couple years. It has all the features I want*, and then some extra. This built-in Windows feature seems pretty good, but if you're looking for something a little extra, I'd recommend Ditto.
* The most common one being "I swear I copy-pasted something containing xyz a few months back", and being able to immediately search it.
Well, I would suggest Ditto
I have added some sticky items on it and assigned hotkeys to it. Since I have to use my work email, id and other things very frequently every day, this is really a life saver.
Since this is a clipboard manager, it has many other features as well.
I just want to add Ditto, it's a very easy clipboard manager with tons of options, super useful if you don't need a macro/template but still need to copy&paste some answers. Also helpful if you need to copy&paste several things at once.
My absolute “Must have” applications are:
- Ditto (clipboard manager, free)
- Greenshot (screenshots, free)
- PDF Xchange Editor (PDF reader + editor, free/paid)
Look into Ditto It's clipboard manger where you can save clips and by double clicking on them it will paste them into what ever field has focus. For example, I have clips of my name, address, phone number etc, and when filling out an online job application I click on the field and then double click the appropriate clip and it pastes it for me.
Maybe not exactly what you have in mind, but try a clipboard manager, like Ditto
A clipboard manager basically remembers everything you've copied into your clipboard. Instead of pasting what is currently in your clipboard, you just hit a special key combo and select from a menu, which item you want to paste instead.
Windows 10 has such a clipboard history built in (activated with Win + V), but I recommend Ditto, because:
- You can make your clips sticky, so that Ditto never forgets them
- You can organize clips into groups/folders (basically your "phrase bank")
- When the selection menu is open, just start typing to search for specific clips
- Can assign keyboard shortcuts to individual clips (useful for pasting most used clips directly, without going into the menu)
Maybe not exactly what you have in mind, but try a clipboard manager, like Ditto
A clipboard manager basically remembers everything you've copied into your clipboard. Instead of pasting what is currently in your clipboard, you just hit a special key combo and select from a menu, which item you want to paste instead.
Windows 10 has such a clipboard history built in (activated with Win + V), but I recommend Ditto, because:
- You can make your clips sticky, so that ditto never forgets them
- You can organize clips into groups/folders
- When the selection menu is open, just start typing to search for specific clips
- Can assign keyboard shortcuts to individual clips (useful for pasting most used clips directly, without going into the menu)
Ditto Clipboard Manager is one of my must-have applications for Windows. It's free, open source and very configurable. I've been using it for many years and since I have it set to save something like 99,750 entries, everything I have every copied on this PC is still there if I need it!
Have you checked out Ditto Clipboard Manager?
Aside from the standard "keeps all your copies so you can paste any of them at any time", also allows you to designate "sticky" entries that stay at the top of your clips list and can be accessed via number (CTRL + ~ + 1, CTRL + ~ + 2, etc.).
In addition, it has three "copy buffers" that are individually addressed and are independent of the regular clipboard. I've got them set up on macro keys, so CTRL + G4 copies into buffer 1, and G4 pastes buffer 1, etc.
There is a slight (.5s) delay before you can reuse, as it's actually swapping in and out of the system clipboard, but I find it incredibly useful when I have a few separate bits of data to paste several times, without interfering with the usual copy/paste.
Ditto
https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
Clipboard manager. Contains history of all the stuff you ever copied into your clipboard, including images. Also has hot keys. Also has hot key to only paste text with (e.g. Microsoft Word) formatting.
Exactly, so if you exclude your password manager, it won't store anything. If however, you copy some sensitive info from some other allowed app, then it will.
Best way to ensure that it doesn't connect to any servers on the internet is to set up a firewall rule to disallow ALL outbound connections for that clipboard app. I do however think Ditto is safe and open source.
there's a privacy policy you can check too - https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/PrivacyPolicy.php
Bit late, pero next time try (CTRL + SHIFT + T) once mag-open yung browser. Possible baka marestore yung previous session. Usually useless yung history pag recently open tabs e, d nag-lolog agad.
If firefox browser mo. Try this https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1279192 at baka mascrounge mo pa yung previous session.
Also suggest using a clipboard manager like Ditto. (Ganda din pang-backup ng txt on the spot) -been a lifesaver during those nights.
What features and platforms are you interested in? I never used 1Clipboard as a pure, local clipboard manager but I tried it out recently to sync my clipboard history between devices. That actually ended up not working very well, so I gave up on that and rely on ShareMouse's built in feature for the same thing which works very well.
Anyway, for clipboard management in general I use Ditto on Windows and Clipy on OS X.
Nice.
Does the Windows Clipboard history have a "search" feature yet? And can I select & paste multiple items from the history at once? Because those two features are the reason, why I still use Ditto
I use this instead. Ditto. Free. https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
Works on other Windows versions, stores images, you can back up the database, it can search, favourite. Its one of the best software I have ever used.
I used to use the extended clipboard but then moved to using Ditto, which is really amazing as it can store any kind of object such as images, files, etc. You can also quickly search any entry. I highly suggest it https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
I use ditto to avoid creating a parallel universe... https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
It basically keeps track of everything you copy, so that you can paste it later.
Sorry for the obvious tip, most redditors in this sub already know this probably.
But isn't there a built-in Windows feature to achieve this already? (my dev workspace is under windows by client's rules)
I strongly recommend two apps.
Ditto - This turns your copy/paste abilities into overdrive. Everything you copy is saved in a temporary clipboard and you can paste anything you’ve copied from the last 100 or so things. This includes photos and text. No matter who you are, this always comes in handy.
Greenshot - Allows you to take snippets of your screen, then allows you to automatically do cool stuff with it. Maybe you want all your snippets to upload to Imgur and give you the link instantly. Maybe you want to be able to pull up a paint editor whenever you take a snippet because it’s part of your work. I make a lot of online flascards and this has helped a ton.
Print Scr is bound to your clipboard. A clipboard manager will do it. I recommend Ditto. It keeps track of your whole clipboard, everything you copied - doesnt matter if image or text. Advantge of it is, it is opensource and totally works locally if you want to keep the files for yourself, without upload features. (Since some other softwares have upoad features and accidental uploads are possible if set up)
https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
Ditto saves all your past copies from your clipboard so you can go back and get that thing you copied a few minutes ago and now can't remember. Ctrl + ~ brings up a window with all the things and you double click to select what you want.
Lots of features I don't know how to use like keystrokes to pick nth item in the clipboard.
This is a huge security issue at the moment! Do not use it until it's clear where your data ist stored!
In the meantime you can use Autohotkey:
https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/32265-multiple-clipboards/
or you can just install Ditto.
And if you need even more items in clipboard with more advanced options and shortcuts, try out Ditto.
It's also available in Windows store.
There is a “clipboard manager” program called ditto that may be what you’re looking for. It saves what ever you copy. This includes text as well as images.
Did you know that you can also press the Windows Key + Print Screen and it’ll save the screenshot in a directory titled “Screenshots” in the Pictures folder?
https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/ There is also a PortableApps version that doesn’t need to be installed. You can find it on portableapps.com (Sorry for the terse answer but I’m writing this while on the toilet. Should be enough info for you here though)
> Btw, Windows 10 has a built in clipboard manager which is accessible by pressing WinKey + V
True, but Ditto is so much more capable. E.g. you can select/insert multiple items from your history at once.
Autohotkey, specifically this guy: ^SPACE:: Winset, Alwaysontop, , A
Ditto, Clipboard manager: https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
and it never ceases to amaze me the people who still don't know you can run commands from the Explorer or drop to command line or powershell in the folder you're in.
PSSession's... if you're in a domain environment, try turning PSRemoting on and learn powershell. You can do so many things from your own desk without interrupting anyone or getting shoulder tapped into other things...
Use a neat little program that's called Ditto that does the same thing but better. Retains across reboots and it's searchable.
I've used it for a few years now and it's awesome.
Get ditto. https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
It's lightweight, fast, stays out of your ways and I love it for grabbing 5 or 6 links then just ctrl+1 or 2 or 3 and it pastes the appropriate item.
It is intuitive and awesome. And you can search your previous copies up to a limit you set. Mine is currently 500.
Best of all, open source and does not require internet to work so it is not sending your clippings anywhere.
Alternatives include AutoHotKey and ditto clipboard. The latter can save and paste text in different formats. By default, it excludes html. Plus, you can configure it's hotkeys.
Do you know about ditto clipboard? You can configure it to paste as different formats. By default, it excludes html. Plus, it's got other benefits (free and open-source, lightweight, etc).
By special paste means that it removes all the line feed (paragraph) and paste as continuous text. ( Copying an article from PDF and pasting it anywhere makes each line of copied content as new paragraph rather than continuous text. Special paste remove such line feed and paste as continuous text)
I want to paste such content in any text editing software such as OneNote/word/notepad etc.
I don't think word/window has the function of removing such line feed and pasting and hence I am using ditto.
I d know anything about powershell or how can I automate such process and hence asking such help here.
Is there a powershell script which can remove such line feed from copied content and then paste? I can directly use that for creating an extension?
There are script available for ditto clipboard but I don't think so for such special paste and I tried searching. But even if it is available, I don't know how I can use it
Yes, I consider an OS clipboard history app to be absolutely essential. Couldn't live without one now.
As of recent Windows 10 versions, there is now a basic one built-in: press Win-V to see the last few copies you made. You can then select one from the list to paste it.
For a much more powerful and comprehensive clipboard history - including a nice UI that allows you to search through past clips (an essential IMHO), favourite them, edit them in-situ before pasting, combine them, and many, many more features, check out Ditto Clipboard Manager.
It's free, and has more or less every possible clipboard history option you could ever think of.
It's the app I used for that purpose when Windows 10 was my daily driver desktop, and I had a clipboard history stretching back 18+ months. Which does get a little large when you save image copies as well :) But it options for pruning the history after a certain time.
Highly recommended.
For anyone who works with Word / Excel all day, across multiple projects :
Everything search : https://www.voidtools.com/
Ditto clipboard manager : https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
Two essentials for me.
autohotkey https://www.autohotkey.com/ can have macros ::trigger phrase or keyboard shortcut::output phrase, ditto https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/ can have multiple copy/paste buffers with separate shortcuts to paste from each one, frozen fields https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/516643804 would make you delete whatever is different between each card but keeps the text there. Autohotkey can be made to detect when a window appears from anki.exe with title Add and automatically start typing into it, that takes a few lines of script.
If you have a fair bit of time, and hardware/programming knowledge. This would require special software running on the computer, to send the selection to the keyboard. You'd have to figure out some sort of extra memory because the EEPROM is absolutely tiny, and then write the QMK modifications for all that.
May as well just use Ditto. Or there's probably other options, but that's what I use.
Celle raisonnable relative à la marge qu'on est prêt à trancher dans ses rêves et aspirations :<
on utilise Ditto au travail pour gérer les informations dans ton presse-papier et tes copier-collés. c'est génial quand tu dois travailler avec beaucoup de données différente et tu peux enregistrer des données à long terme. J'ai une liste de copier/collés avec certains mot de passe de basse sécurité, d'autres avec des requêtes SQL utiles de temps à autre, une autre avec certains liens réseaux et enfin une avec des lennyface pour reddit.
Also get Ditto Clipboard Manager: https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
It saves everything you copy, so you can just go back and get it later. You can change how many items it saves and for how long it saves them. I know we've all copied something and then inadvertently copied something else and overwritten the previous thing. This helps to avoid that.
There are also some pretty cool freeware clipboard apps that do this (and a crapload more). I've been using one called Ditto for years. Forget what the others are called, but it's pretty popular freeware genre. I'm talking about Windows, btw.
I have a tray app named Ditto which lets you view your clipboard history and grab dozens of copies back to paste or drag/drop the text. You can configure it with hotkeys to appear at the cursor and do all sorts of functions.
I found this ditto clipboard manager. I'll give it a try.
The problem with clipboard managers is they collect every copy action.
Whereas I need only need one copied text action.
Thank you.
Also, you can run a multi-clipboard like the awesome Ditto so that all of your responses are automatically saved/accessible just by copying them (no need for a text editor). If they are things you type in regularly (filling out many forms with the same info?) then you can even put clips in saved "Groups" so that they are always just a couple of clicks away. I've used Ditto on every machine in my life for years now and can't imagine living without it. I use Shift-CTRL-V to bring it up so it feels very intuitive compared to CTRL-V. And no, I'm not a shill, I just love that damned application.
I'm not amazed because Ditto is so good, just because how freakin useful it can be. Seriously, try it right now, you won't be able to go back to not having a clipboard history.
Ditto clipboard. Keep a record of everything you ever cut/copy (even images). Set the expiration to never, and I have my clipboard since over a year a go now. It's saved me so many times because I copied some text, but deleted the file. I searched my clipboard, and bam, there it was.