Whats the best 'simple' clipboard manager available?

Question

I used to use Coodclip but it is now ancient and is begining to crash more and more and is not in active development. I want something simple that will keep everything I put on the clipboard for simple and quick retrieval later.

I have tried some,but most are far too complicated and are designed for creating clip libraries but I dont want that.

Answer 1

I use ditto (supports text, html, rtf and images only).

I configured it to delete clips after 1 day, so the database keeps small, but it still saves my clips over the occasional reboot.

Access via WindowKey+[1-9] for the latest clips, and WindowKey+backtick for a list (of course you can configure the shortcuts).

Answer 2

ClipX. Simple and easy to use.

Answer 3

There was that LifeHacke hive-five article on Clipboard managers ..

Answer 4

CLCL is an awesome clipboard manager. Lots of configuration options and really easy to use, other ones I've tried couldn't compare. I think i have been using it for over 5 years now.

Answer 5

Ditto is nice, it improved since the last time I saw it. Yet, I think I will stick to CLCL (found after I ditched Ditto...).
It does roughly the same things than Ditto, except it weights 0.5 MiB while Ditto (at the time of writing) weights 12 MiB (lot of it coming from MFC runtime (Ansi & Unicode), wow...).
OK, most of you don't care anymore for footprint on disk or memory (but it can count toward the 'simple' part of the question), so I will present some nice features of CLCL.

• User-defined shortkeys (Ctrl+Shift+V is quite convenient for me, using Ctrl+Alt+V to paste with tools).
• Handy menu with short preview (longer in tooltip on hover) of text or miniature image. All entries (limited in number) have a keyboard shortcut, the menu can be entirely piloted with keyboard. Entries can be customized.
• You can define preset pastes (eg. your e-mail address, your URL, code snippets, etc.).
• Clipboard viewer in hexa and text, for all formats currently in clipboard.
• Import/export clips, preserve history across sessions. Clips are saved in plain text, per user.
• Support TEXT, BITMAP/DIB, DROP FILE LIST (from Explorer) out of the box, and we can add small DLLs to support UNICODE TEXT, METAFILE PICTURE, ENHANCED METAFILE and Rich Text Format.
• Other DLLs add features or allows to alter the text before pasting (Ctrl+click in the list of items to paste or special paste shortcut): change case, e-mail quotation, wrapping, adding tags (HTML or BBCode or whatever you want), or to edit the text itself.
• If you are a programmer, you can add your own tools (source code is provided).

Weaker points:

• As noted above, it haven't been updated since 2005. I don't care: I have the source code, and it is robust anyway, working even in Win7.
• Not as nice as Ditto (plain old paste menu). Well, I would count that as a plus, actually (and the OP wanted "simple"...).

Answer 6

Before I switched to Mac, I used ArsClip. Very lightweight, does just what I needed it to do.

Answer 7

I wrote an extremely basic and simple one:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/clipcycler/

Answer 8

Using this pretty simple clipboard manager for many years ClipTray

Answer 9

Executor contains a nice simple one, but it's fantastic software in the rest of it too.

Answer 10

I tried many others prior to seeing this thread, I didn't like them.. I just tried ditto though I quite like it.

pasteitin is incredible. but only does text.

Answer 11

Clipomatic

By default Clipomatic allows you to store up to 10 items in the clipboard but you can easily change this by going to the settings. In addition to that instead of the regular Ctrl + V combination to paste items you will have to use a new shortcut Ctrl + Alt + V which is also configurable in the settings. Pressing the new shortcut key for pasting will bring up a new menu from which you can choose the text you want to past.