![]() ![]() The point is you need to be patient and trust that something is happening in the background.ĥ. On the Mac mini housing our family digital photo library, the first duplicates showed up after a few hours but it was the better part of a day before the process seemed to have wrapped up. On my writing machine, that took half a day. It’s not the sophisticated tool that Keyboard Maestro is, but it performs its functions exactly as I need them.Eventually, when going back to that Duplicates folder it was populated. However, I really prefer CopyLess for managing my clipboard history. I’m still a consistent and enthusiastic user of Keyboard Maestro. There’s a lot to like about this option for writing in Markdown in Mail.app. In CopyLess, the plain text mode is toggled with a hot key combination ( shift+ctrl+T by default). With a snippet rich text selected in the history list, just hit shift+return to paste as plain text. I like how Keyboard Maestro handles conversion to plain text. While the Keyboard Maestro quick view displays formatted text and some images, CopyLess handles many more image formats. The next ctrl+shift+5 will paste what was the 4th item. For example, hitting ctrl+shift+5 will start with pasting history item 5 and then move that item to the top of the stack. This allows me to paste a sequence of items by hitting just ctrl+shift+number repeatedly. Once activated in the advanced preferences this mode moves the last clipped item to the end of the list. Hitting shift+return inserts plain text of the clip.ĬopyLess also has an optional “serial paste” mode. Hitting return inserts the clip in the front document. Clips are accessed with the up and down arrows. ![]() My shortcut is ctrl+opt+CMD+\ to bring the KM clip manager forward. Keyboard Maestro requires the Clipboard Manager window to be activated by a hotkey sequence. ![]() There’s no need to activate the main window. To insert an item from CopyLess, I just hit the keyboard shortcut sequence that I configured, ctrl+shift+number. While I like the power that Keyboard Maestro clipboard history provides, I like the simplicity of CopyLess. Single shortcut to insert a specific history item. The keyboard shortcuts for CopyLess are very nice. However, to reset the view to show all entries you have to click the magnifying glass icon. To search in CopyLess you just start typing. The search functionality is more obvious in Keyboard Maestro. Search filters the displayed list by matches. History Searchīoth utilities provide an option to search the history. Overall it’s a lot of useful information packed into one window without obscuring the clip. CopyLess also shows what app created the clip. Images display their dimensions in pixels. For the remaining items, the age (in minutes or hours) is displayed. For the first 10 items, the corresponding keyboard shortcut is displayed. Dragging an image from a web browser inserts the URL for the image into the clipboard history.Īdditionally, I really like the extra information CopyLess provides in the history list. Items can be dragged directly into the CopyLess palette from the finder. With Keyboard Maestro, the palette is activated with a keyboard shortcut and remains active until the escape key is activated. If I want to explore the window, hovering the mouse cursor brings back full opacity mode. I keep the CopyLess palette always active with transparency turned up to leave a faint ghost window. The big difference is how I use each one. I thought it might be nice to write a head-to-head comparison of each tool.īoth CopyLess and Keyboard Maestro present a floating palette with visual indication of the type of material in the clip. I’ve moved away from Keyboard Maestro for managing my clipboard but it’s also a great option. Fast forward 7 months and I’m still using it every day. At that time I had about a month of usage under my belt. I wrote a quick review of CopyLess back in January. ![]()
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