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So as many of you know I'm a developer. Usually I'm developing either web-based games or game
apps. But recently I've been working on a Mac utility and I just released it in the Mac App
Store. So if you go to the App Store and then you search for Clip Tools you'll come up with
my new app. It's absolutely free. There are no in-app purchases or ads or anything like that.
After you download it and launch the app it will show up here in the Menu Bar. It does a ton of
different things. But its most basic functionality is a local text clip manager. So, for instance,
here in TextEdit if I were to select a word and use Command C to Copy I would look up here
and I would see what I copied listed there. I could Copy more things and then look and see
a history of what I've copied. If I then want to Paste something somewhere I can select one
of these items and it will Paste it. So it extends your clipboard past just having one
thing in the Clipboard at a time. As you select more it puts more items here in a separate menu.
But you can customize how many items appear at the main menu and how many items appear in More.
You can use the modifier keys to get tons of other functionality. For instance, the basic
functionality for the clips here is to Paste it in the current text location. But if you hold
the Control Key down you could see it would just copy it to the clipboard. If you hold the Option
Key down you could see that it will Save it so you could Save an item like that and then find it in
Saved Clips. While you have a limited number of regular clips depending upon your settings, Saved
Clips will remain there. So you can keep something around that you know you're going to reuse.
If you hold Shift and Control it will paste as plain text removing formatted. If you Shift and
Option it will remove the item from the list and if you hold down Shift it will group paste.
So if I select this one here it will paste that and all the ones above it. You can also paste a
whole bunch of other things. For instance, you could paste the current date or date and time
and you can customize the format. You can paste sample Lorem Ipsum text like this.
Everything in Clip Tools should work in any app where you can Paste text. So if you wanted to
paste the current time, say in a Number cell, you could do that. You can use something called Smart
Clips. So Smart Clips look like this. They are bits of text that you add but you can put commands
in them. For instance, the pick command allows you to pick from different options. So say I was
composing an email message. I could use this one here and it will prompt me to select one of these
items. Then it would Paste in the Smart Clip with my selection. There is a ton of other things you
can do like prompting for some text, inserting the date, or inserting one of these clips.
A big part of Clip Tools is actually performing calculations. So you could use this item here
and then type something, like that, and then it will Paste the result at the current location.
But you can also select some text and use Calculate Selection and it will calculate
it and it will do complex things like this and even some functions like this.
Then it keeps a list of previous calculations and you could paste past results.
There is a ton of other things you could do. For instance you can select some text
and perform actions on it. Like for instance you can convert numbers to words like that.
You can also change case in a variety of different ways including a customizable
headline case. You can perform actions like stripping tags, removing extra spaces,
even sorting lines of text in place. The settings include a lot of things that you can customize and
the ability to set two global shortcuts. You can set one of them to activate the menu. So in this
case I have Shift Command C set to activate the menu. Then I could use the keyboard shortcuts
shown here to do something. So, for instance, Paste the time is Shift Command t. So a quick
Shift Command C to activate the menu and then Shift Command t will paste the time.
You can select some text and then if you look here the Convert Number to Words is Shift Command
W. So I can do Shift Command C, Shift Command W and it will convert the selected number to
words. You can Paste the previous clips, Smart Clips, use F keys for quick access
and you can perform calculations with the Hot Key and then the keyboard shortcut as well.
There is a full instruction manual for it available right here or you can just go to
it right now before you even downloading Clip Tools. It goes into detail about how
to use each and everything. How modifiers work to change the commands. How to Format the Date
and Time insert functions. All the different things you could do with Smart Clips. What
functions are supported with calculations and how to configure it using Settings.
It's completely local and private. I kind of started developing it for myself and
then expanded it to include my patrons and now everyone. I'm going to do more
tutorials soon on how to get the most out of some of the functions like Smart Clips.
I hope you find it useful. Thanks for watching.