Have you ever wondered where your data ends up when you "Copy" it on Windows? Did you know that there is a tool called Microsoft ClipBook Viewer among the Windows XP utilities?
Probably, not out of distrust, but not everyone knows it, because it is a hidden utility that is not present in the start menu or Start menu.
In addition, the XP ClipBook Viewer has been removed in Windows 10 and Windows 7. Basically, when cutting or copying in Windows, the information is stored on the clipboard and remains there until you cut or copy a other information, or until the PC is turned off.
Well, from the ClipBook Viewer tool window you can see the contents of the clipboard and the memorized notes.
UPDATE: In Windows 10, from October 2018, there is the Clipboard history function with synchronization between devices, to preserve and recover the copy and paste data, so you can also reuse them on other computers.
Different is the Microsoft Office Clipboard Viewer, which comes from the Office Clip.exe file and shows each piece of data that is copied for later pasting. The Word and Office clipboard viewers is visible to everyone and keeps multiple copied or cut data in memory for later use.
There are limitations in the Clipbook included in Windows XP and absent in Windows 7 and Windows 10 because images cannot be captured and the contents of the Windows clipboard do not store clipboard data for a long period of time. When you turn off your computer or just copy some other text, data is lost (unlike Office).
How many times has it happened to need data copied half an hour or an hour earlier but replaced with something else?
Or, simply, there may be a need to remember what was being done on the computer a month or a year ago without writing diaries.
In short, the clipbard viewer in Windows does not exist and the objective of this article is to find free software that offers this function. A good software clipboard manager must be small in memory, as it will be running all the time to capture all the data on the clipboard. It should have customizable shortcut keys to paste and use the clipboard data easily and quickly. Finally, it would be the case that it also recorded the date / time / place where the data was copied or cut.
These are the best "Clipboard Manager" programs to manage copy and paste notes .
1) Save.me keeps the Copy and Paste notes forever allowing you to recover, search, edit, protect and reuse them whenever you want.
2) Ditto is an extension to the standard Windows clipboard.
It saves each item placed on the clipboard and allows access to any of these items at a later time. Ditto allows you to save any type of information: texts, images, html, and customized formats and whatever you want.
3) CopyQ is a Windows clipboard manager that resides in the system tray and allows you to quickly paste the copied things from the context menu of the right mouse button. CopyQ is a 2014 program, new, that works on all versions of Windows including Windows 8.1, free and open source, with tabbed interface to manipulate and see the notes of the copy and paste.
4) ClipX is a small tool to manage the history of the clipboard that can be recalled through a hotkey and supports both bitmap images and text.
It works in the background and occupies only 0.6MB of memory. You must press CTRL + SHIFT + V to see the history of the notes on the screen and just press the corresponding number to paste them where you want. Clipx is perhaps the best of these programs also because it supports the use of keyboard shortcuts and is very light.
5) Free Clipboard Manager is a simple portable Windows clipboard management utility. It automatically saves each piece of text and image that you copy to the clipboard and all copied notes are displayed on a window that remains visible in the lower right corner of the screen. To paste a previously copied item, just select it, copy it back to the clipboard using the right-click menu and paste. Clipboard manager saves the images taken with the Stamp key, the screenshots, directly on the hard disk. Each copied text is also saved to disk in individual TXT files.
6) Genius is a newer, open source and free program that integrates into the system and becomes the default and perfect tool for viewing the text copied to the clipboard of Windows 10 and Windows 7. You can thus paste copied notes by choosing them from the list that puts, in separate tabs, text and images.
7) Yankee Clipper 3 is a powerful Windows clipboard capable of storing all formats of text images in any archive, of any size. It also has the function of printing, drag and drop and optional permanent storage of cutouts. The graphical interface is very familiar and looks like "Outlook"
8) Clipjump is a free portable clipboard manager for Windows that improves the copy and paste function showing the preview of the copied notes long ago. Lightweight program, it has the option to undo pastes, store multiple entries on the clipboard with a history that remains even after the computer is restarted.
9) ClipboardFusion is a more powerful program than the others that not only manages the notes of the copy and paste, but also does the replacement of the text and allows you to create macros, that is automatisms for repetitive actions (when you always copy and paste the same thing).
10) Clippy is a portable clipboard manager that opens on the taskbar to view multiple items that have recently been copied to the clipboard window. Any text that is copied will become visible and usable later for pasting. The portable version occupies 46 KB of disk space, the interface is easy and nice to use as well as customizable.
11) QClip is an enhancement to the standard Windows clipboard that allows users to paste text that has been previously copied or cut. QClip is in the background and, if you need to paste a copied text some time before, instead of pressing CTRL-V and pasting the last thing copied, just press CTRL-ALT-V and QClip will be displayed with all the old clips . You can use the arrow keys to select the desired item, then press "Enter", or use the mouse and click on the "Paste" button. QClip only works with plain text and the history is cleared when you restart your pc or if you end the QClip application. If you find that QClip is no longer storing anything, you must right-click the scissors icon in the system taskbar and select "Reset".
12) Clipboard Caching Tool (CLCL) is a clipboard program that works as a system cache and automatically stores all the items that have been copied to the Windows clipboard. Subsequently it allows you to easily go back and recover images, text or other objects. You can also maintain a permanent list of items (template), which can be used to quickly enter frequently used data or texts. The features can be further expanded with several plug-ins, which include text processing, some options such as case-shifting, adding tags, removing quotation marks and other things.
A more complex and more expert program.
In another post it is written how to remove text formatting when copying and pasting from a poorly formatted web page or document.
Finally, I remember that the best free Notepad for Windows is called Notepad ++ .
Probably, not out of distrust, but not everyone knows it, because it is a hidden utility that is not present in the start menu or Start menu.
In addition, the XP ClipBook Viewer has been removed in Windows 10 and Windows 7. Basically, when cutting or copying in Windows, the information is stored on the clipboard and remains there until you cut or copy a other information, or until the PC is turned off.
Well, from the ClipBook Viewer tool window you can see the contents of the clipboard and the memorized notes.
UPDATE: In Windows 10, from October 2018, there is the Clipboard history function with synchronization between devices, to preserve and recover the copy and paste data, so you can also reuse them on other computers.
Different is the Microsoft Office Clipboard Viewer, which comes from the Office Clip.exe file and shows each piece of data that is copied for later pasting. The Word and Office clipboard viewers is visible to everyone and keeps multiple copied or cut data in memory for later use.
There are limitations in the Clipbook included in Windows XP and absent in Windows 7 and Windows 10 because images cannot be captured and the contents of the Windows clipboard do not store clipboard data for a long period of time. When you turn off your computer or just copy some other text, data is lost (unlike Office).
How many times has it happened to need data copied half an hour or an hour earlier but replaced with something else?
Or, simply, there may be a need to remember what was being done on the computer a month or a year ago without writing diaries.
In short, the clipbard viewer in Windows does not exist and the objective of this article is to find free software that offers this function. A good software clipboard manager must be small in memory, as it will be running all the time to capture all the data on the clipboard. It should have customizable shortcut keys to paste and use the clipboard data easily and quickly. Finally, it would be the case that it also recorded the date / time / place where the data was copied or cut.
These are the best "Clipboard Manager" programs to manage copy and paste notes .
1) Save.me keeps the Copy and Paste notes forever allowing you to recover, search, edit, protect and reuse them whenever you want.
2) Ditto is an extension to the standard Windows clipboard.
It saves each item placed on the clipboard and allows access to any of these items at a later time. Ditto allows you to save any type of information: texts, images, html, and customized formats and whatever you want.
3) CopyQ is a Windows clipboard manager that resides in the system tray and allows you to quickly paste the copied things from the context menu of the right mouse button. CopyQ is a 2014 program, new, that works on all versions of Windows including Windows 8.1, free and open source, with tabbed interface to manipulate and see the notes of the copy and paste.
4) ClipX is a small tool to manage the history of the clipboard that can be recalled through a hotkey and supports both bitmap images and text.
It works in the background and occupies only 0.6MB of memory. You must press CTRL + SHIFT + V to see the history of the notes on the screen and just press the corresponding number to paste them where you want. Clipx is perhaps the best of these programs also because it supports the use of keyboard shortcuts and is very light.
5) Free Clipboard Manager is a simple portable Windows clipboard management utility. It automatically saves each piece of text and image that you copy to the clipboard and all copied notes are displayed on a window that remains visible in the lower right corner of the screen. To paste a previously copied item, just select it, copy it back to the clipboard using the right-click menu and paste. Clipboard manager saves the images taken with the Stamp key, the screenshots, directly on the hard disk. Each copied text is also saved to disk in individual TXT files.
6) Genius is a newer, open source and free program that integrates into the system and becomes the default and perfect tool for viewing the text copied to the clipboard of Windows 10 and Windows 7. You can thus paste copied notes by choosing them from the list that puts, in separate tabs, text and images.
7) Yankee Clipper 3 is a powerful Windows clipboard capable of storing all formats of text images in any archive, of any size. It also has the function of printing, drag and drop and optional permanent storage of cutouts. The graphical interface is very familiar and looks like "Outlook"
8) Clipjump is a free portable clipboard manager for Windows that improves the copy and paste function showing the preview of the copied notes long ago. Lightweight program, it has the option to undo pastes, store multiple entries on the clipboard with a history that remains even after the computer is restarted.
9) ClipboardFusion is a more powerful program than the others that not only manages the notes of the copy and paste, but also does the replacement of the text and allows you to create macros, that is automatisms for repetitive actions (when you always copy and paste the same thing).
10) Clippy is a portable clipboard manager that opens on the taskbar to view multiple items that have recently been copied to the clipboard window. Any text that is copied will become visible and usable later for pasting. The portable version occupies 46 KB of disk space, the interface is easy and nice to use as well as customizable.
11) QClip is an enhancement to the standard Windows clipboard that allows users to paste text that has been previously copied or cut. QClip is in the background and, if you need to paste a copied text some time before, instead of pressing CTRL-V and pasting the last thing copied, just press CTRL-ALT-V and QClip will be displayed with all the old clips . You can use the arrow keys to select the desired item, then press "Enter", or use the mouse and click on the "Paste" button. QClip only works with plain text and the history is cleared when you restart your pc or if you end the QClip application. If you find that QClip is no longer storing anything, you must right-click the scissors icon in the system taskbar and select "Reset".
12) Clipboard Caching Tool (CLCL) is a clipboard program that works as a system cache and automatically stores all the items that have been copied to the Windows clipboard. Subsequently it allows you to easily go back and recover images, text or other objects. You can also maintain a permanent list of items (template), which can be used to quickly enter frequently used data or texts. The features can be further expanded with several plug-ins, which include text processing, some options such as case-shifting, adding tags, removing quotation marks and other things.
A more complex and more expert program.
In another post it is written how to remove text formatting when copying and pasting from a poorly formatted web page or document.
Finally, I remember that the best free Notepad for Windows is called Notepad ++ .
