With a couple of keystrokes you can be entering an event into your calendar, you can be sending files to someone, you can be pasting something from the clipboard that you copied yesterday. Sure, both let you tap a couple of keys and begin typing things like application names or search terms, but as excellent as Spotlight is, LaunchBar crams more power into the same space. There are alternatives, that’s about the only thing that should give you pause, but the most obvious rival to LaunchBar is OS X’s own Spotlight and that is no competition at all. Just published on MacNN: my review of a superb utility for OS X: Tagged alfred, apps, clipboard, history, Launchbar, manager, recommended, software, tools The Alfred 2 official website is here LaunchBar 6’s home is there. Do spend some time havering over LaunchBar 6 or Alfred 2, but don’t spend any time hesitating over buying a clipboard manager. There are others and while all of this is Mac-only, there are PC apps that do it too. What you see there is how the software Alfred 2 displays its clipboard manager: you get very much the same thing in LaunchBar 6, the other app I was reviewing that has this. I’m hoping there’s nothing private in there. But if instead of pressing Command-C, I press a slightly different keystroke – with what I’ve got it’s Alt-Command-C – then this is what I see:Ĭlick on that to see it full size and to also see exactly what I’ve been copying and pasting for the last few minutes. If I got to paste something, it pastes like normal. It was the many others that made them worth reviewing but it’s this clipboard management that was most important in making me keep the software on my Mac. But I’ve recently reviewed two apps that happen to include this feature amongst their many others. I’ve been aware of these for a long time and paid them no attention at all. ![]() Paste the third thing first, the second thing second, the fourth third, anything you like. And then tomorrow paste each of those into an email. ![]() With any such app, you can copy something, then copy something else, something else. Not a lot of room for technological innovation. It’s hard to see what you could really improve there. A Clipboard Manager, let’s give it initial caps and explain a bit more, is a type of software that makes your copying-and-pasting better. They’re called clipboard managers and suddenly I have the image of a time and motion person scribbling down notes about how slow I am.
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