Paste Wizard is an easy to use clipboard manager that allows you to save multiple clipboards and be able to paste them again later. It has the following advantages:
Compact grid display allows you to see and select from many saved clipboards at once.
Handles all types of clipboards.
Clipboards produced by many automatic typing utilities (like TextExpander, Butler, TypeIt4Me, Typinator, Keyboard Maestro, 1Password, etc.) are ignored.
Recognition of special text types in clipboards allows convenient pasting or operation.
You can quickly search the grid to find clipboards you want.
You can edit text clipboards you have already saved.
You can lock clipboards so they are not displaced by new ones.
You can delete individual, unlocked, or ALL saved clipboards (for example if they contain sensitive data).
You can paste multiple clipboards rapidly through three different mechanisms.
You can use Dropbox to backup or synchronize your clipboard contents across multiple machines.
Paste Wizard allows you to display up to 99 clipboards (per set) in a compact manner, making it easy to quickly find which one you want to paste again. Paste Wizard recognizes certain types of text much like Apple's Data Detectors, and allows you to paste or operate on them in special ways. This feature is very useful when dealing with web or database forms that force you to type things like addresses, phone numbers or social security numbers in separate fields, or force you to enter phone numbers with just decimal digits. Furthermore, you can paste clipboards as unformatted text even if they are formatted. This is useful if you want pasted text to inherit the formatting of the application you are pasting into.
Paste Wizard saves clipboards as you copy them. You can have Paste Wizard delete all saved clipboards whenever you stop it (e.g. logout/shutdown/restart), or save clipboards on disk so they are still available when you restart your computer and/or Paste Wizard. You can save up to 99 clipboards in Paste Wizard. The newest ones copied displace the oldest. You can lock clipboards so they are not displaced as new clipboards are saved.
You can also specify a maximum size for clipboards to be saved. Clipboards that contain images can be huge because the image is stored in multiple formats to be able to be pasted wherever you wish. Saving huge clipboards can slow things down if you are saving them on disk, so you can choose not to save clipboards over a specified size.
If you choose to save clipboards across restarts you can:
choose to save only locked clipboards.
create as many sets of clipboards as you want, with up to 99 clipboards per set.
encrypt your clipboards to keep them safe.
have them saved in your Dropbox if you want them synced across multiple computers or just backed up in the cloud.
You can configure these options in the Preferences.
Showing Clipboards
Saved clipboards are shown in 2 ways:
via a Grid that you display via a hotkey. This is the main way to show clipboards because it provides a compact way to see all 99 clipboard as well as search them or see all of them by hovering over them.
optionally via an icon in the menu bar.
If you choose to show them via the menu bar icon, you can specify whether the icon should be the default yellow color, gray, or black. Furthermore, you can specify how many of the saved clipboards appear in the menu under the icon.
Text clipboards displayed under the icon always show unformatted, but clipboards shown in the grid normally show their formatting (e.g., color, font, size). You can choose to show text clipboards in the grid as unformatted.
Normally the grid is displayed in the center of the screen, but you can choose to display it it a location you choose (my just moving it once displayed, or near your cursor instead (always showing the full grid).
You can configure these options in the Preferences.
Using Clipboards
Saved clipboards can be pasted and manipulated in various ways via either the grid or the menu under the menu bar icon.
Normally text clipboards are pasted "as is", with all their formatting. You can also specify that they be pasted unformatted by default, or that they be typed by default.
You can choose to have clipboards moved to the first unlocked position after they are pasted.
Certain text clipboards, such as those that contain multiple lines (or items separated by tabs) can be split into multiple clipboards that could be pasted individually. When this is done, normally duplicate clipboards created by the splitting are eliminated. You can choose to have them not eliminated.
You can configure these options in the Preferences.
Recognition Of Special Text Types
Paste Wizard allows you to copy numbers in several different formats and paste them in their current form, as separate fields, or as fields together. Pasting as separate fields means that tabs are typed between the fields to move to the next field in the form. Thus, a phone number like:
(202) 345-6789
can be pasted as:
or as:
In addition, Paste Wizard recognizes URLs and allows you to go to the URL in your default browser or paste the URL as a TinyURL.
Paste Wizard currently supports several types, with special handling as shown below. Each type is denoted with a letter in a colored background for easy identification of types.
Type
Example(s)
Special handling
Number
202-345-6789
Paste as individual fields, or as just the digits
789-456-1234 x5678
(202) 345-6789
(789) 456-1234 x5678
02 1234 5678
234-23-0500 (e.g., an SSN)
Multiple
xcy-kjy-oiuy-po34
Paste as individual fields or with fields together
Fields
(e.g., registration code)
Multiple
John Woodward
Paste as individual words
Words
Address
(3 lines)
Apple
One Apple Park Way
Cupertino, CA 95014
Paste as an address into address form fields (name,
address line 1, address line 2, city, state, zip code), with address line 2 blank
Address
(4 lines)
John Woodward
XYZ Company
123 Whatever Street
Somewhere, ST 01234
Paste as an address into address form fields (name,
address line 1, address line 2, city, state, zip code), with address line 2 filled in
URL
http://theWoodwards.us
Go to URL in default browser (if you are connected to the web)
Paste as a TinyURL (if you are connected to the web)
Multiple
Items
1
2
3
4
Create Multiple Clipboards -- 1 clipboard per item (items are separated by tabs or ends of lines)
All text types can also be pasted unformatted.
Using Clipboards in the Grid
You can show the saved clipboards in a grid that is displayed when you type a hotkey (default command-/):
This example grid display of multiple saved clipboards shows how the special types are designated. You display or hide the grid with the hotkey you designate. You can also hide the grid with the escape key, or by clicking outside the grid (unless you are in Paste Multiple Mode or Drag Mode).
As you move your cursor over the grid, the background of the clipboard you are pointing to is outlined with a black border, as shown at the right.
If you lock a clipboard, it appears with a lock icon and a colored background, as shown at the right.
If a very long textual item is in a clipboard, you can hover your mouse over item and more of the text (as much as will fit) will be shown. If you hover your mouse over an image, a larger size of the image will be displayed. Some clipboards contain both an image and text:
An image copied from Safari by right clicking and choosing "Copy Image" displays the image in the grid (or menu bar icon), but if you hover over the image in the grid, its URL (also saved in the clipboard) will be displayed.
If you copy a single Finder item, its icon is displayed, but if you hover over it in the grid its name is displayed.
If you copy multiple Finder items, the image shown at the right is displayed, but if you hover over it in the grid all of the copied filenames are displayed.
You click a clipboard or type its number to paste it. Only the first 9 clipboards have a number, shown with a yellow background.
Clipboard 2, marked with a , has been recognized as multiple words, so command-clicking (by default) pastes each word in a different field, tabbing in between. This feature would be useful for pasting a name into separate first and last name fields.
Clipboard 3, marked with an , has been recognized as having multiple fields (like a registration code), so command clicking pastes each field separately.
Clipboards 4 & 5, marked with , have been recognized as numbers, so (by default) command-clicking pastes as fields, or option-clicking (by default) pastes all digits together.
Clipboard 6, marked with , has been recognized as a URL, and you can go to that URL in your default browser or paste it as a TinyURL (if you are connected to the web).
Clipboard 7, marked with , has been recognized as an address, and can be 1) pasted as such into a form with multiple fields for an address or 2) made into one clipboard per line, (added in addition to the clipboard containing the full address).
Clipboard 8, marked with , has been recognized as having multiple items in it (with individual items separated by tabs within a line or by ends of lines). Such a clipboard can be used to create one clipboard per item, (added in addition to the clipboard containing the multiple items).
Right-clicking any clipboard shows you all the options for that clipboard and allows you to choose among those shown at the right. Using the contextual menu for a clipboard, as shown, you can paste clipboards per the table above, lock or unlock the clipboard, edit, print, delete, or move/copy the clipboard to a different clipboard set (if any exist). Key modifier Shortcuts let you easily choose among some of these menu items above when clicking.
For text clipboards, you also have the option to paste it unformatted. If you have ever encountered a web page that has disabled pasting (as is often done when retyping passwords), you might appreciate the option to type the clipboard (unformatted of course).
The Grid Menu
The grid menu allows you to perform various functions as shown below:
The Grid Configuration menu appears at the right. Normally clipboards are displayed with their formatting (such as color, font), but you can specify that they be displayed as unformatted text instead. Normally the grid is centered on the screen, but you can specific that you be able to position it wherever you want. Similarly, you can specify that it appear near your cursor (though fitting fully on the screen). Finally you can specify one of four grid sizes, with a default of "Normal", which is shown above. With the "Tiny" size, the lock icon is not shown, but locked clipboards have a colored background.
The General Configuration menu appears at the right. You can also modify several general configuration options (that also appear in the Preferences, and apply to both the grid menu and menu bar menu).
Normally, pasting a text clipboard pastes it with its formatting, but you can change that default to paste without formatting (regardless of the default you can choose exactly how to paste each clipboard by right-clicking it and choosing from the menu that pops up).
You can also choose to type a text clipboard by default. Typing allows you to enter in the field (e.g. on some web sites) that have disabled pasting.
Once an unlocked clipboard is pasted it can stay in its place in the grid or be moved to the first unlocked position. You can also choose to keep locked clipboards grouped together at the beginning or end (of the grid or menu bar menu).
The Clipboard Sets menu appears at the right. You can also choose the clipboard set you want to display in the grid and icon menu. The default set, as shown at the right, is called "Main". Choose "Edit..." if you want to create, delete, or duplicate existing sets. You can also cycle through sets using "Switch".
Searching Clipboards
If you type text in the search field, clipboards matching the text are outlined in red, as shown at the right. Searching occurs as you type, but while you type the yellow digits disappear because typing those digits does not paste while you are typing in the search field, and mouse movements over the grid (such has hovering to see more of a clipboard) do not work. Pressing return exits the search field, restores the hovering and the yellow digits, and allows you to paste by typing the digits. The text in the search field is persistent--it applies to clipboards added to the grid after the text is entered, and is saved across restarts and clipboard set switches if you are saving passwords.
If you have multiple clipboard sets, you might be looking for some clipboard that is not in the current set, and hence not highlighted with red. You can use the "Search Again In Another Set" function in the Grid Menu (command-G), to search other sets and switch to the next set that contains the search text, highlighted in red. If no set contains the search text, the grid jiggles as an indication.
Paste Multiple Mode
You specify that you want to paste multiple items while keeping the grid displayed by selecting Paste Multiple (command-M), which changes the grid menu button to as shown at the right to indicate you are in paste multiple mode, and the grid will remain displayed until you close it with the grid hotkey or the ESC key. Clicking outside the grid does not hide it in this mode, and if you bring another window forward while the grid is displayed, the yellow numbers disappear from the grid because typing those because would type into the window rather than pasting a clipboard.
You will remain in this mode until you select Paste Multiple (command-M) again with the grid displayed (even if you hide and re-display the grid). When in this mode, you can type the tab key to tab in the window into which you are pasting. Also, if you re-position the grid in this mode, it will stay where you put it even if you hide the grid and re-display it. When you enter this mode, a number of other options appear:
Tab After Pasting (command-T) makes it easier to paste into forms, because the next form field is automatically tabbed to after each paste. When this mode is on, the grid menu button changes to .
Show All Clipboards (command-A) is the default when in Paste Multiple mode, but if you have many clipboards saved, you may find it inconvenient because the grid blocks the window into which you are pasting.
Show Only Locked (command-L) shows only locked clipboards, in case you locked them because you paste them often. You might use this to paste you name, address, phone number, etc. This option is available only if you have locked clipboards.
Show Only Recent (command-R) shows only the last 9 clipboards, which can be pasted easily by typing 1-9.
Show Only Recent and Locked (command-B) shows both of the above.
Use Fewest Rows Possible lays out the grid with clipboards going across and uses as few rows as possible. The idea is to make the grid thin and able to be moved to the top or bottom of the screen to allow easy access to windows on the screen while the grid remains displayed.
Use Fewest Columns Possible lays out the grid with clipboards going down instead of across and uses as few columns as possible. The idea is to make the grid thin and able to be moved to the right or left of the screen to allow easy access to windows on the screen while the grid remains displayed.
When you are in Paste Multiple mode, all functions that delete, lock, or unlock clipboards are not available unless you are showing all clipboards.
In Paste Multiple mode you can move the grid where you want it and its position will be restored the next time you enter Paste Multiple mode. With the grid displayed all the time, you may find it more convenient to have it vertically displayed with as few columns as possible so you can tuck it away on the left- or right-hand side of your screen. If this is the case, select Use Fewest Columns Possible. If you choose this, the clipboards are laid out down the columns as opposed to across the rows. When you leave Paste Multiple mode, the grid returns to its normal layout.
Drag Mode
Drag Mode (command-D) is similar to Paste Multiple Mode, in that in this mode, the grid remains displayed until you explicitly close it, it has the same options in the grid menu, and pasting clipboards works the same way if you right-click them and choose a pasting option from the resultant menu. When you enter Drag Mode, the grid menu button changes to as shown at the right. However, clicking a clipboard does not paste it, because in this mode you can drag clipboards to rearrange them in the grid or drag them into other applications to paste them. You can rearrange clipboards only if all clipboards are displayed (command-A).
When rearranging clipboards, if you have grouped locked clipboards you can rearrange either the locked or unlocked clipboards, but not intermix them.
You can drag a clipboard to any application that can accept the type of clipboard to paste it.
Note that although you can specify Tab After Pasting in drag mode, it applies only if you paste via right clicking, but not if you paste by dragging. When you turn this on in Drag Mode, the grid menu button changes to
Drag Mode is very useful when for pasting multiple clipboards into field entries and is more convenient than moving the cursor in between each paste in such a case.
Delete After Pasting Mode
In this mode...which applies whether you are in normal, paste multiple, or drag modes, specifies that after an unlocked clipboard is pasted (in any manner), it should be removed from the grid. If you are in this mode, a trash can appears in the grid menu, such as: , , , , or . Note that this mode also appears in the menu bar and can be controlled from there as well.
Using Clipboards From menu bar
You can optionally have Paste Wizard display its icon in the menu bar, as shown at the right. You can also choose to have the icon be black or grayscale, as shown at the right. The functions at the top of the menu are the same as in the grid menu, except there is no search capability, and the "Clipboard Size" menu, which allows you to specify one of four different clipboard sizes to show in the menu:
Normal--1 line per text clipboard, max 30 characters wide; plain text shown; small size for images
Medium--up to 3 lines per text clipboard, greater width; formatted text shown; medium size for images
Large--up to 6 lines per text clipboard, greater width; formatted text shown; large size for images
Huge--all lines for text clipboard (that fit on screen), greater width; formatted text shown; huge size for images
In addition to the functions, each clipboard is listed.
Choosing the clipboard pastes it. The key modifiers that work on the grid work here as well (except that control- or right-click is not needed because each clipboard acts as a menu if you want to choose a function that way).
Pasting via this menu works in a situation when pasting via the grid does not. Certain applications that cause you to take some special action to enter input mode may cancel input mode when the grid is displayed. In this case, pasting via this menu should work because the menu does not cancel input mode. As example of this behavior, if you select a file in Finder and hit return, you enter input mode. Displaying the grid cancels input mode, but pulling down the menu does not.
Locked items will be marked with a lock symbol as in the grid.
Editing Text Clipboards
If you right-click a text clipboard and choose Edit... or choose Edit... from a clipboard under the menu bar, you will get the dialog shown at the right. Please note that editing a clipboard that has formatting will discard the formatting.
Locking Clipboards
As more clipboards are selected they are added to the grid up to the maximum you specify (1-99). When the maximum is reached, the oldest clipboards are thrown away. To prevent this for a particular clipboard, you can lock it. The visual difference between locked an unlocked clipboards is shown at the right. You can lock/unlock individual clipboards or unlock all of them. Note that you cannot lock all of the available clipboards because then there would be no room for new ones.
Printing Clipboards
If you right-click a text clipboard and choose Print... or choose Print... from a clipboard under the menu bar, you will be able to print the clipboard.
Deleting Clipboards
You can delete individual clipboards (e.g. because they contain sensitive information), or all unlocked clipboards, or all clipboards (via the grid menu or icon menu). Note that deleting all clipboards clears the system clipboard, which may be useful as a security measure. You can also enable a hotkey that allows you to quickly delete all unlocked clipboards. Also, you can use Delete After Pasting Mode to cause unlocked clipboards to be deleted after they are pasted. Finally, if you are in Drag Mode, dragging an unlocked clipboard to the trash deletes it.
Entering Notes
Notes are a very useful feature that allows you to capture thoughts, URLs, etc. for later use by entering them directly into a clipboard from any application. Paste Wizard supports a hotkey to bring up a dialog that lets you enter notes. When you type the hotkey (default command-option-/), which can be changed in the Preferences, the dialog at the right appears to allow you to enter a note. You can enter directly into any clipboard set, including one you are not currently using (you might even want to create a set just for notes), and you can specify whether you want the note to be locked or not.
Pasting Multiple Clipboards Via Hot Key
In addition to Paste Multiple Mode and Drag Mode in the grid, there is an alternative way to paste multiple clipboards. A special hot key (default command-') is specified in the Preferences (see below) that pastes the items in the clipboard in a last-in-first-out manner. The hot key can be used with or without the grid displayed. In other words, using the grid above as an example, the first press of this hot key would paste "word" (the last item copied), the next press would paste "two words", etc. There are three important things to note about pasting with this hot key:
There is a very slight delay between pressing the hot key and the pasting of the clipboard. This is normal.
As you paste and item, it goes to the end of the grid, and other unlocked items shift downward, such that each paste actually pastes the first item shown in the grid (if you were to look at it between pastes).
If you have locked items that you have grouped at the beginning or end of the grid (see below), they will not be shifted via this hot key.
Pasting Into Forms
In addition to using the Paste Multiple Mode, Drag Mode, or Last-In-First-Out hotkey features to make form entry easier, you can use the special data types that Paste Wizard recognizes to facilitate form entry as follows:
Addresses
With a typical address form like:
Name:
Address Line 1:
Address Line 2:
City:
State:
ZIP:
Just select an entire address like:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
or
John Woodward
XYZ Company
123 Whatever Street
Somewhere, ST 01234
Then put your cursor in the "Name" field, display the grid, right-click the address clipboard, and choose "Paste As Address". The result will be that the address will populate the address fields.
Phone Numbers
With a typical phone number form like:
Extension
Just select a phone number like:
456-123-1234, or (456) 123-1234 or
456-123-1234 x56789
Then put your cursor in the first field, display the grid, right-click the number clipboard, and choose "Paste As Separate Fields". The result will be that the address will populate the phone number fields.
Multiple Items
With any type of form
You can use the "Create Multiple Clipboards" feature in multiple cases. If, for example, you have an address in some other format than those above in a clipboard, then choosing "Create Multiple Clipboards" will add one clipboard per line in the address. You can them paste or drag each line into the form as needed. This would be much easier than copying each line separately.
As another example, if you have numbers in a spreadsheet, you can copy a bunch of them at once then create one clipboard per number easily.
Key Modifiers
Several modifier keys and combinations provide shortcuts for choosing special functions from the menu bar or from the contextual menus in the grid. Here are the default keys and their meanings:
Control or Right-click
Displays the menu of all functions that can be performed on the clicked clipboard
Command
Pastes the clicked clipboard as separate fields; ignored if clipboard was not recognized as fields or a phone number
Option
Pastes the clicked clipboard as digits together; ignored if clipboard was not recognized as a phone number
Command-Option
Deletes the clicked clipboard
All of these can be changed (except right-click) using the Key Modifiers tab in the Preferences as described below.
Security Features
If you are concerned about having sensitive data in saved clipboards, there are several Paste Wizard features that allow you manage this risk:
You can manually delete clipboards that are sensitive when you are done using them (using either the grid or the menu bar icon).
You can specify in the Preferences that clipboards not be saved on disk, or that only locked clipboards be saved.
You can specify for each clipboard set that unlocked clipboards should automatically deleted after a certain amount of time (or upon restart). This allows you to have different auto delete settings for different clipboard sets. For example, you might have a special set with automatic deletion for your most sensitive information, and not automatically delete in another set.
These features can be used in various combinations.
Clipboard Sets
If you have specified that clipboards should be saved on disk, you can maintain any number of named clipboard sets, creating, deleting, or choosing which one you want to use via the grid menu or icon menu. Both of these menus contain a "Clipboard Sets" menu such as the one shown at the right. This menu allows you to choose which set to use ("Main" is selected at the right). You can also choose "Switch" (or more typically type command-S) to rotate through the sets displayed in the grid. Finally, you can choose "Edit..." to display this dialog that allows you to create, delete, rename, duplicate, or edit the automatic delete settings for each clipboard set:
You cannot rename or delete the "Main" set.
The popup menu in the "Auto delete unlocked clipboards..." column gives you the following options:
You can also move clipboards between sets. This is useful if you save a clipboard in the wrong set. To move a clipboard, right- or control-click it and choose the set to which you want to move the clipboard, as shown in the menu at the right.
You can also copy clipboards between sets. To copy a clipboard, right- or control-click it and choose the set to which you want to copy the clipboard, as shown in the menu at the right.
Preferences
You can display the Preferences window in 3 ways:
From the Action submenu of the grid menu
From the Action submenu of the menu bar menu
By holding down the option key when launching Paste Wizard
It is also automatically displayed when running Paste Wizard for the first time. The Preferences window always opens with the Basic tab displayed:
The basic preferences relating to how clipboards are saved, viewed, and used appear here. Other tabs include less frequently used or changed preferences.
Any changes you make to the Save in Dropbox Folder or Encrypt saved clipboards settings take effect immediately. All other configuration changes you make take effect when you close the Preferences window.
Saving Clipboards
The preferences for saving clipboards are annotated at the right.
Saving Clipboards on Disk
If you choose to save your clipboards on disk, they are normally saved unencrypted in the "Applications Support" folder in the "Library" folder in your home folder. You have the option to save all or just locked clipboards across reboots or restarts of Paste Wizard. If you choose to save, all of your clipboard sets will be saved.
How Many Clipboards To Save Per Set
The number of clipboards saved per set can be 1-99. If you set it to a number lower than the current number of saved clipboards, older saved clipboards will be deleted. However, in no case will locked clipboards be automatically deleted, nor will the last unlocked clipboard. Examples assuming that you have 5 locked clipboards and 5 unlocked clipboard saved:
If you set the number of saved clipboards to 8, the oldest two unlocked clipboards are deleted.
If you set the number of saved clipboards to 4, the oldest four unlocked clipboards are deleted (because 1 unlocked clipboard must always be left), leaving a total of 6 clipboards.
Showing Clipboards
The preferences for showing clipboards are annotated at the right.
Grid Display of Text Clipboards
Normally text clipboards with formatting (color, font, size) appear formatted in the grid, but you can choose to have them display as unformatted text...as they do in the menu under the icon.
Where The Grid Displays
By default, the grid is centered on your display. If you want to control where it is displayed, check "Allow Me to position the grid". Once it is displayed, you can move it, and it will stay there, even if it changes size because you copy more clipboards. If you check "Display grid near cursor", the grid will appear near the cursor, but completely visible on one screen. This option is useful when you have multiple screens. These last two options are mutually exclusive: checking one unchecks the other.
You can adjust the typing speed with the slider in the Preferences.
Using Clipboards
Typing Text Clipboards
If you right-click a text clipboard, you will have the option to type it unformatted (as opposed to pasting it). This is useful in situations where pasting has been disabled, such as in some forms on websites. You can also specify the typing speed.
What Happens To Pasted Clipboards
If you uncheck "Move pasted unlocked clipboard to first unlocked position", unlocked clipboards you paste will remain in their current position until you cut or copy a new item, which will always go into the first unlocked position shifting others up by one. Of course, this assumes that you have not specified that clipboards be deleted after pasting (you would specify this in the Grid Menu or in the (optional menu bar menu).
The Hotkeys tab allows you specify all hotkeys that will be recognized by Paste Wizard. The defaults are shown below. Clicking the buttons at the right captures the next key (with modifiers) that you type as the hotkey.
Note that each hotkey can be individually enabled.
Note that the "Copy Appending" hotkey works only if the current clipboard contains text and you are copying text. When you use this hotkey, the text in the clipboard loses any special formatting and can hence be pasted only as plain text. Copy Appending does not impact the current system clipboard, but rather the first clipboard shown in the grid or menu bar menu. Thus, to paste the accumulated clipboard, paste it from the grid or menu bar menu.
The Key Modifiers tab allows you to change the default modifier keys that provide shortcuts in the clipboard grid or icon menu:
The Grid tab shows a reminder of the meanings of the symbols of the in the clipboards window, and the Register tab allows you to go to the web page where you can pay only $8 for a registration code and enter the code. It also allows you to go to a web page to retrieve a previously-purchased registration code given your purchase information.
The Applications tab allows you to specify preferences for specific applications as illustrated below.
By default, there are no applications whose clipboards are excluded. The preferences above for pasting formatted or not override the similar preference in the Basic tab when pasting into the listed application(s).
Macintosh Requirements
Paste Wizard runs on Mac Os 10.12+.
It is required that the keyboard shortcut on your system to paste is command-v, and that the keyboard shortcut to copy by command-c, the common defaults.
FAQ
Why do you allow backup and syncing via Dropbox but not via iCloud? Dropbox is used for backwards compatibility with the legacy application Paste Master.
Why won't my clipboards Paste? If you are running on 10.14 or later, you must re-authorize Paste Wizard to control your computer when installing or after upgrading it. In System Preferences->Security & Privacy-> Accessibility you should see Paste Wizard shown. Even if it is checked, because of an apparently unfixable Apple bug, you must UNCHECK it and then CHECK it again. You will have to click on the lock icon and enter your password before doing so. If for some reason Paste Wizard does not appear there, you will need to click the plus sign and add Paste Wizard, which should be in your Applications folder.
Version History
1.0 - Initial Release.
1.1 - Bug fixes; updated Help.
1.2 - Feature enhancements:
Added the option to changes the size of clipboards in the menu bar menu.
You can now paste into the Registration dialog.
2.0 - Feature enhancements and bug fixes:
If you are running Mac OS 10.14+, you will be warned to re-authorize Accessibility for Paste Wizard after updating.
The helper application that launches upon login no longer appears in the Dock.
Improved registration feedback.
Spurious error message about lost clipboards no longer appears upon first run.
The correct item is now pasted from the Menu Bar menu.
3.0 - Feature enhancements and bug fix:
Improved performance in general, and dramatically if you are encrypting your clipboards.
Changed the Application-Specific Preferences to allow clipboards from a specified application to be completely ignored, rather than just not saved as is currently the case.
Fixed bug related to deleting an application from the Application-Specific preferences.
3.1 - Not released.
3.2 - Bug fix and improved debugging support:
Added clipboard export and import functions for debugging support.
Improved debugging information provided with "Email The Author".
Fixed bug in hovering over images in the grid.
Fixed bug in recognition of copied URLs.
3.3 - Feature enhancements and bug fixes:
Added the ability Lock all clipboards in the current set.
Added the ability to go to all URLs in the current set.
Added the ability to search for text in a clipboards beyond just the current set.
Fixed bugs relating to the proper indication of configuration options in the grid and menu bar menus.
Fixed bug in unlocking all clipboards.
Fixed bug in not correctly categorizing a clipboard after it is edited.
Updated documentation.
Acknowledgments
Paste Wizard uses a modified version of ShortcutRecorder to allow for the specification of Hotkeys.
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Contributors to Shortcut Recorder, in no order in particular:
Jesper, waffle software, <wootest+shortcutrecorder@gmail.com>. Initial idea and concept, first shot at implementation using NSView.
David Dauer, <david@daviddauer.de>. Refinement, cleaner reimplementation, documentation, IB Palette.
Jamie Kirkpatrick, Kirk Consulting Ltd, <jkp@kirkconsulting.co.uk>. Further modularisation and re-factoring, and general bug fixes.
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Purchasing Paste Wizard
Paste Wizard is shareware. You can try it out for 30 days, but if you still use it thereafter, you must register it. The price is very reasonable--$12. After 30 days, Paste Wizard will not work unless you have registered it.
Registration includes future updates.
To purchase Paste Wizard, click here. Once you have paid, you will receive a registration code via email. You can enter this code by choosing Registration... in the Action submenu in the grid or icon menus.
If you do not get your registration code via email in a timely manner it may be that it was eaten by an overly aggressive spam filter. In that case, click on the Retrieve Purchased Code button in the Registration... dialog or click here and enter your PayPal purchase information to retrieve the code.
As you move your cursor over the grid, the background of the clipboard you are pointing to is outlined with a black border, as shown at the right.
If you lock a clipboard, it appears with a lock icon and a colored background, as shown at the right.
If you copy multiple Finder items, the image shown at the right is displayed, but if you hover over it in the grid all of the copied filenames are displayed.
Right-clicking any clipboard shows you all the options for that clipboard and allows you to choose among those shown at the right. Using the contextual menu for a clipboard, as shown, you can paste clipboards per the table above, lock or unlock the clipboard, edit, print, delete, or move/copy the clipboard to a different clipboard set (if any exist). Key modifier Shortcuts let you easily choose among some of these menu items above when clicking.
The Grid Configuration menu appears at the right. Normally clipboards are displayed with their formatting (such as color, font), but you can specify that they be displayed as unformatted text instead. Normally the grid is centered on the screen, but you can specific that you be able to position it wherever you want. Similarly, you can specify that it appear near your cursor (though fitting fully on the screen). Finally you can specify one of four grid sizes, with a default of "Normal", which is shown above. With the "Tiny" size, the lock icon is not shown, but locked clipboards have a colored background. 
The General Configuration menu appears at the right. You can also modify several general configuration options (that also appear in the Preferences, and apply to both the grid menu and menu bar menu). 
The Clipboard Sets menu appears at the right. You can also choose the clipboard set you want to display in the grid and icon menu. The default set, as shown at the right, is called "Main". Choose "Edit..." if you want to create, delete, or duplicate existing sets. You can also cycle through sets using "Switch".
If you type text in the search field, clipboards matching the text are outlined in red, as shown at the right. Searching occurs as you type, but while you type the yellow digits disappear because typing those digits does not paste while you are typing in the search field, and mouse movements over the grid (such has hovering to see more of a clipboard) do not work. Pressing return exits the search field, restores the hovering and the yellow digits, and allows you to paste by typing the digits. The text in the search field is persistent--it applies to clipboards added to the grid after the text is entered, and is saved across restarts and clipboard set switches if you are saving passwords.
as shown at the right to indicate you are in paste multiple mode, and the grid will remain displayed until you close it with the grid hotkey or the ESC key. Clicking outside the grid does not hide it in this mode, and if you bring another window forward while the grid is displayed, the yellow numbers disappear from the grid because typing those because would type into the window rather than pasting a clipboard.
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as shown at the right. However, clicking a clipboard does not paste it, because in this mode you can drag clipboards to rearrange them in the grid or drag them into other applications to paste them. You can rearrange clipboards only if all clipboards are displayed (command-A).
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. Note that this mode also appears in the menu bar and can be controlled from there as well.
You can optionally have Paste Wizard display its icon in the menu bar, as shown at the right. You can also choose to have the icon be black or grayscale, as shown at the right. The functions at the top of the menu are the same as in the grid menu, except there is no search capability, and the "Clipboard Size" menu, which allows you to specify one of four different clipboard sizes to show in the menu:
Entering Notes
If you have specified that clipboards should be saved on disk, you can maintain any number of named clipboard sets, creating, deleting, or choosing which one you want to use via the grid menu or icon menu. Both of these menus contain a "Clipboard Sets" menu such as the one shown at the right. This menu allows you to choose which set to use ("Main" is selected at the right). You can also choose "Switch" (or more typically type command-S) to rotate through the sets displayed in the grid. Finally, you can choose "Edit..." to display this dialog that allows you to create, delete, rename, duplicate, or edit the automatic delete settings for each clipboard set:
The popup menu in the "Auto delete unlocked clipboards..." column gives you the following options:
You can also move clipboards between sets. This is useful if you save a clipboard in the wrong set. To move a clipboard, right- or control-click it and choose the set to which you want to move the clipboard, as shown in the menu at the right.
You can also copy clipboards between sets. To copy a clipboard, right- or control-click it and choose the set to which you want to copy the clipboard, as shown in the menu at the right.
