Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
On today's episode let's take a look at two extensions to your Mac that will allow you
to save multiple items in your Clipboard.
So I talked about these before but it has been a long time and they are worth talking
about again because it's something that I absolutely must have on my Mac.
The ability to go back into the history of my Clipboard.
For instance, in a text document here if I were to select a word and copy it, Command
C, select another word and copy it, select another word and copy it.
Now what do I have in the Clipboard.
I've got the last thing that I copied and I can paste it in here but what happens if
I want the thing before that, or the thing before that.
It would be nice to have a history and it is so easy to add to your Mac.
There are two extensions, both free, that I have added and I use them both because they
both work at the same time and one is simple and one is feature filled.
The first one is called Jumpcut.
It is a simple little menu here and it just looks like a little scissors there on my menu
bar and I can see a list of the most recent items I added.
So if I wanted to go back to a previous item I can select it and it pastes it in there
like that.
It makes it so easy to go back in history.
You've got some cool preferences in here like, for instance, what it looks like.
You have some Hotkeys to be able to use it.
Things like that.
How many to remember.
All sorts of things.
You can set it to automatically launch when you start up your Mac and it just adds it
here.
It is quiet and doesn't get in the way.
It's been around forever.
I'll show you how to get it at the end of the video.
The other one I have is ClipMenu.
It does a very similar thing except it's a little deeper.
So you've got a little history here.
You go into this folder and here's the most recent usually ten items that it goes back
on.
The preferences allow you to do a lot more in here including having Snippets which are
things you manually add in.
So in addition to being able to go in here and grab you know recent Clipboard things,
you can grab special items.
So, for instance, for Snippets we can add one and just create an untitled folder and
an untitled snippet.
So this can be like a response to an email you have to send a lot or something like that.
Then when I look now I can see there are snippets and there's the folder and there's the item
in the folder.
I can add tons of these things in there.
There is a whole bunch of other different options here in ClipMenu including the ability
to save images.
So Jumpcut is simple and just does text which is what I need most of the time.
ClipMenu will actually remember images.
So if I am copying things while I'm working on an image I'll see the image appear here
in the menu instead of text.
I find that I have them both running.
They both record the Clipboard.
I use this for just about everything and when I need something a little more advanced I'll
go from Jumpcut to ClipMenu and use that.
I recommend at lease installing Jumpcut for most people because it is so useful.
You can go through a document and cut things out and then think well boy I wish I didn't
cut that and go back and find those items in here.
I also find that I'll do things because I'm typing, say I'm typing a response on a web
form or something like that and I know that if I hit submit and say I want to save that
and post that somewhere else as well or if maybe you are submitting a sport form and
you'll never see that text again and it's gone when you hit submit; just selecting it
just before I hit submit and copying it means it will remain in Jumpcut and ClipMenu here
for a while because it is going to record a certain amount of history.
So if a minute or ten minutes later I decide I want to look at that text again I've got
a quick copy of it.
This is so useful that you really should go and get these two.
They are both free.
So here are the websites for them.
Jumpcut is at jumpsuit.sourceforge.net so it is easy to get to and you can just download
and install the app, the extension really.
ClipMenu is at ClipMenu.com and you can just download it from there.
So I definitely recommend getting one or the other or both just for making your Mac experience
a little better.
Every Mac I've got has these.