Ask HN: What clipboard manager do you use?

by BMSRon 1/7/2024, 2:39 AMwith 5 comments

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

by 4ensicon 1/7/2024, 2:48 AM

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

by explaingarlicon 1/7/2024, 3:24 AM

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.