The Case for Clipboard Managers (opens in new tab)

When Apple eventually Sherlocks one into MacOS they'll do a whole section of the keynote about how innovative and revolutionary it is, and everyone will start writing fawning articles...

But, in seriousness, I don't think they will. The footgun of "my password is sitting in my clipboard history" is just too powerful to give to the non-nerds. Maybe with local "AI" detection of passwords to automatically remove those they might consider it?

I never used a clipboard manager up until about 3 months ago when I decided to give Maccy a try. It's a free/open source one for macOS. It has absolutely ruined my ability to use a computer without one now! The inline popup feature when hitting cmd+shift+c to copy is amazing and I use it probably 500 times a day.

I've gotten a lot of use out of the clipboard hiatory on Android and on windows 10/11. I just wish I had more control over them. Android especially doesn't give you an option to disable or lengthen the hour timer that clears things from your clipboard history which is really annoying when I copy something for later and need to go find it again after an hour when it's been removed for me.