Comments on: Clips: A New Age of Clipboard Managers Has Come

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Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:00:22 +0000

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By: John

John — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:48:06 +0000

Yep I bought Stuf in the recent MacZot promo, and really like it. Not perfect but it’s simple, clean and it does the job without pretension. Network shared clipboards are really handy.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:23:06 +0000

This app is definitely slick in the eye-candy category, but my new favorite clipboard manager is Stuf, over at theescapers.com. Doesn’t have the keyboard shortcuts of TextExpander, but it’s not really meant to be used in the same way. Just a simple clip organizer with network capabilities, and a few other tricks up its sleeve. I find that I actually use it throughout the day without it getting in the way.

But I must compliment the developers on how slick Clips looks! If they could only simplify it a bit.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:40:22 +0000

I have run into problems running many of these multiple clip board apps with TextExpander also. I have been begging the TextExpender developers to add this functionality right into their app. I am hopeful they may do it one day.

TextExpander is the holy grail for the Mac. I could not and will not live without it. By the way I run TextExpander on all five of my Macs and snippets are synced across them with MobileMe. I have never had it crash.

By: John

John — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:19:50 +0000

Really? I honestly don’t think TextExpander has ever crashed on me since I’ve been using it, which dates back to when it was Peter Maurer’s free TextPander.

The only problem I had was it forgetting some preferences, which was annoying but not terminal.

What does the developer say?

By: Joe Turner

Joe Turner — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:10:36 +0000

@John: I agree, the abbreviations need some work, but, in the last few builds, TextExpander has been almost unusable for me; it crashes too much.

By: John

John — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:05:39 +0000

I really wanted to like this app.

Unfortunately it is slow, doesn’t play nice with TextExpander (we’ll come back to that) and is expensive.

As for abbreviations vs TextExpander, that’s like comparing a Yugo to a Ferrari. Clips would not remember my abbreviations across restarts, you can’t really organise them, you can’t use delimiters or any of TE’s built-in logic (dates/shortcuts/commands/cursor etc).

Plus even if you turned off abbreviations it would not properly restore the clipboard when using TE.

This is an app that might be killer at version 2 but for the moment it’s verging on beta quality. Sorry!

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:14:19 +0000

Looks great, but this is just way too much stuff for such a simple need. You lost me at “two windows”.

By: Nicolas Lapomarda

Nicolas Lapomarda — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:50:05 +0000

@Peter: to disable automatic clipboard entries, simply select “Disable Clipboard Monitoring”. You can then add clips on-demand like you described…

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:32:54 +0000

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice app, but in the end of the day, i don’t need all this fancy stuff. It eats only my memory. Good looking, but not useful. Thats why i love Jumpcut.

By: iLoveMacApps

iLoveMacApps — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:38:36 +0000

That is a really cool app. One of the best in the field.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:14:02 +0000

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This monitors everything that you copy using Apple’s built-in clipboard, and automatically adds it to Clips’ library.
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This feature is exactly why I don’t like it ( or any similarly configured competitors ). At the end of the day I always have to perform a massive clean up. I’m perfectly happy with iClip, which only adds on demand …

By: Adam Thorsen

Adam Thorsen — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:09:42 +0000

Follow up — found the settings — they just weren’t where I expected them to be. Very cool app otherwise.

By: Adam Thorsen

Adam Thorsen — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:08:18 +0000

Installing this app immediately took over the ctrl-space hotkey, which is traditionally used for Quicksilver. I still haven’t found where in the settings to change the hotkey… Actually I haven’t been able to find the settings at all…