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I'm looking for a better clipboard manager for OS X. I have tried Clyppan and ClipMenu and Jumpcut, and have also tried using Quicksilver's built in clipboard manager. I have not been too happy with any of them. I also looked at a few articles describing the so called best clipboard manager for mac, like this one - http://gigaom.com/apple/10-clipboard-managers-for-os-x/

I'm coming from Windows and LOVED the Ditto clipboard manager. It was SO SIMPLE and powerful. Why can't I find the same thing for Mac?

Here's the functionality that I loved about Ditto:

  • It can manage text or images, but it has an option to only keep track of text, which I had enabled.
  • It has an option so that text is always pasted as plain text (removes formatting)
  • You can change the shortcut keys to anything you want. I prefer cmd+shift+v on mac.
  • When activated it showed a list of clipping, typing text would filter the results to only show matches. Using the up or down arrow keys (or a number key - results were numbered) would choose the selection, and enter would paste it. Clyppan has this, but you have to activate it, press cmd+f to search, type in your string, then press tab about 4 times, then you can use the arrow keys. Too much work.
  • Clyppan also has a "rapid paste" feature that I like - you can paste the last several things on the clipboard in reverse order. I can't remember if Ditto had that but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

Does anyone have more recommendations for good clipboard managers that have this sort of functionality on the mac? I've put in suggestions to the author of Clyppan but he seems really slow at developing it and releasing newer versions. Also it used to be open source but now is a paid app in the app store and the source has been removed, so I can't make tweaks to it myself instead of waiting on him. Oh, which reminds me, Ditto was also open source.

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