Load Clipboard

[mathieudaudelin]

Hi there 👋🏼 Does anyone know if there's an easy way to load your clipboard with previously defined data?

 

For example, I regularly clear my clipboard history.

But I also, on almost a daily basis, need to access my clipboard history for the same ~100 items.

Any simple solution exists for this at the moment?

 

Thank you for your attention!

[vitor]

Welcome @mathieudaudelin,

 

Not sure I understand the question. Are you looking for the Copy to Clipboard Output?

[mathieudaudelin]

Hi Victor,

Thank you for your greetings and reply.

 

I'm not sure the Copy to Clipboard Output would be what I'm looking for.

I'll use a very simplistic hypothetical example to illustrate my thoughts:

 

• My Clipboard History holds 10 items (raw text words), which I frequently rely on and use through my day:
  • Apple
  • Pear
  • Orange
  • Kiwi
  • Mango
  • Strawberry
  • Blueberry
  • Banana
  • Grape
  • Pineapple
• At some point in the day I delete my clipboard, or the Clipboard History deadline is eventually reached (24h, 7 days, 1 month, 3 months);
• The only way I know as of today to retrieve back my Clipboard History items is to manually copy (10 times in this case) a raw source of these words from a text editor;
• Now imagine that what I frequently need to access is not a Clipboard History of 10 items, but rather around a hundred;

Consequently, I was wondering if there's some way I could “load“ a predefined Clipboard History, which would streamline the process but also would allow me to maintain this predefined Clipboard History is ever new items or fewer items are needed.

 

I hope I was clearer in the matter this time.

Thank so much for your concern,

[Stephen_C]

27 minutes ago, mathieudaudelin said:

My Clipboard History holds 10 items (raw text words), which I frequently rely on and use through my day

This is just a thought, which may be completely off-track, but couldn't you use Snippets for those items rather than copying them from the clipboard history all the time?

 

Sorry if that's not helpful!

 

Stephen

[Vero]

@mathieudaudelin I would second @Stephen_C's suggestion that a collection of snippets is likely your best way to have non-time-sensitive clips of text you can use any time.

 

You can add them via a snippet keyword, or by using the Clipboard / Snippets Viewer to browse the collection of items. They'll be backed up / synced and therefore protected from any clipboard expiry

 

[mathieudaudelin]

Oh that’s an awesome alternative indeed! Thanks @Stephen_C and @Vero. Do you know if there’s any way to import a batch of snippets from a plain text file where each line/row would be one snippet? This is to find out if there’s a way to avoid doing it manually one by one with the + icon at the bottom right of the snippets window.

 

Have a great day!

[vitor]

5 minutes ago, mathieudaudelin said:

Do you know if there’s any way to import a batch of snippets from a plain text file where each line/row would be one snippet?

 

Yes, @dfay made a tool to import from a CSV.