

It basically operates the same as Jumpcut, which also automatically pastes your clipping of choice at your cursor position at the moment.Īs an additional feature, you can now sync your clips and general settings in Flycut through Dropbox, so there’s no work and data lost if you switch between Macs. The clipboard can also be navigated with the arrow keys, and remove items through the Delete button. Flycut also comes with the option to customize the height of your pop-up window that opens up after keying up your hotkeys. This feature is highly desirable if you tend to work your hotkeys fast or are working with multiple links at the same time and tend to get confused. That is to say, like Jumpcut, Flycut is also a clean and simple clipboard manager, but packed with neat improvements that gives it that slight edge over Jumpcut.įlycut comes with more customizable and just the smidge more powerful options, such as the choice to have it automatically remove duplicate clippings. As with Jumpcut, Flycut can only hold up to 100 clippings, the same inability to copy and paste images, and the ability to display only the last 40 items copied, just like Jumpcut. Opening Flycut for the very first time will give you a major case of deja vu, because the app looks suspiciously the same as Jumpcut–from the user interface, its preference pane and the pop-up bezel.

We’re so-so with this app, but it does get the job done and we still highly recommend using this one. It has an additional snippet feature that can manage re-usable text as a snippet that you can do by copying and pasting it anytime from the menu, which is also accessible via the same ways JumpCut is. Anyhow, you’ll find that ClipMenu can support other clipboard types too aside from text and links, such as PDFs, RTFs and RTFD, so if you find that copying these files are in your horizon, this might be the clipboard manager for you.ĬlipMenu, however, also has an automatic organization function that lumps your copied items into folders, and that may turn out to be your cup of tea or just end up jumbling up your content and hindering your productivity. The choice of image format support ClipMenu has is honestly mind-boggling to us, because TIFF and PICT are hardly used by the common computer user, almost rendering its image support useless. Hold your horses there though, as it can only support recording images in the TIFF and PICT format, and not any of the more common formats such as PNG, JPG or BMPs. Outstandingly, unlike Jumpcut, ClipMenu can record images in its clipboard. ClipMenuĬlipMenu does not have the same limitations you get from Jumpcut: it can have as many history items on its clipboard as you want depending on the value you set in the preferences menu, the default value being 20. Nevertheless, it’s still quick and handy for heavy-duty copy pasting, way better than your ordinary old school method. The downside is that Jumpcut is limited only to your links and text, and has no ability to work with images.

Jumpcut is open source and can hold up to 100 copies, while a quick view of the menu bar lets you see up to 40 of your latest clippings.

You can decide not to paste your selection by hitting escape. The clipping will still be viewable in your stack, and you can navigate that by fiddling with your arrow keys and Home and End buttons easily. Once you’ve selected a text from there, Jumpcut places it in a pasteboard and attempts to automatically paste it where you position your cursor. Then run it in the background with pbclear 60 & to clear the clipboard every 60 seconds.Jumpcut was designed by its developers for providing “quick, natural and intuitive” access to the user’s clipboard history, and in that sense, the app is simple and straightforward enough. Notably, its minimalism can be taken for a lack of UI/UX sense.Īfter installation and launching the app, any text item that you cut or copy will be piled on a “stack” of clippings that can be accessed under the menu bar or through a pop-up that’s activated by pressing a customizable hotkey. Save it to a file named pbclear, set executable permissions with chmod +x pbclear, and put it somewhere in your path, for instance, /usr/local/bin. The script below clears the clipboard every S seconds: #!/bin/sh
#Mac clipboard action how to#
Please refer to the link below for how to use AppleScript.Ĭlear Clipboard on OS X after ‘n’ seconds Introduction of the method using AppleScript
