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Ask HN: What clipboard manager do you use?

4 points by BMSR 2 years ago · 5 comments · 1 min read


Personally I consider clipboard managers to be a must-have.

I often need to go back to something I copied 30 minutes ago etc.

Plus they're like a mini browser history, holding your links.

Which one do you use? Or why aren't you using one?

I use https://github.com/madprops/clipton

4ensic 2 years ago

I use Ditto (https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/). It uses about 5MB Ram and lets you expire clips.

  • mrandish 2 years ago

    Yep. I tried a bunch and it's the best for Windows. Highly customizable and indispensable.

  • BMSROP 2 years ago

    Yeah that's the one I used on Windows.

explaingarlic 2 years ago

I'm not using one!

I usually copy something only in the moment and immediately "clear" my clipboard by CTRL + C'ing a single character from some textbox/selectable field :-)

For me, it's not a buffer but just a line of communication between two programs. When I have tried to treat it like the former I have found that mistakes are common and the benefits are very slight.

  • BMSROP 2 years ago

    Might be worth it to automate the clearing after a paste event. If you want to paste multiple times then you'd need to give it some time, like 5 seconds after the last paste etc.

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