I’ve been using Jumpcut — an open-source Mac clipboard buffering tool that provides access to text that you’ve cut or copied, even if you’ve subsequently cut or copied something else — for a while now. As a blogger, it’s super-handy to be able to keep more than one snippet of text stored in my clipboard.
Getting started is simple — just download the the archive from Sourceforge, extract it and place the application in your Applications folder. Start up the app, and you’ll notice a little scissors icon in your menubar. As you copy items to your clipboard, you can access them through the icon in the menubar, or via holding a hotkey combination (Ctrl+Option+V by default, though you can change it via the preferences) that pops up an overlay that you can use to quickly select a clipboard item using the arrow keys. It works really well, it’s intuitive, it’s fast and it’s free — I highly recommend it.
Note: Jumpcut is an open source utility, licensed under the MIT license. According to One Thing Well (a blog about useful software that’s well worth subscribing to) there’s a fork of Jumpcut by Dr. Drang that shows more lines from the clipboard and improves the look of the bezel overlay. I haven’t tried it yet, but Dr. Drang’s fork of Jumpcut is available on Github.
What productivity-boosting utilities do you use?
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