Clipboard enhancers

Posted by Slartibartfarst
Jul 20, 2016 at 11:20 AM

I think I must have tried out most of the clipboard tools, over the last few years.
General conclusions:
Runner-up: Clpstory - quite a good collection tool, but sometimes seemed a bit clunky and idiosyncratic/complex/unreliable. From memory, it captured any text or images that passed through the Clipboard, and some file types (I think MP3s were included).

2nd, choice: NoteFrog - a low-cost and very good tool from HT Consulting. It captures any text, RTF, HTML or images that pass through the Clipboard, including screen captures. It has an internal image viewer. Development was halted (with apologies) in Beta, due to resourcing issues. I had been one of the Beta testers. NoteFrog replaced and was preceded by ClipGuru, which seemed pretty advanced for its time. NoteFrog could well have become my tool of choice if it had continued.

1st choice: CHS (Clipboard Help and Spell) is donationware from DonationCoder.com - very reliable and flexible. Apparently originally intended to be a PIM, development in that direction stopped and instead focused on developing and supporting its clipboard functionality. Very good support from the developer. It captures any text and images that pass through the Clipboard (no RTF or HTML), including screen captures. It has an internal image viewer and very useful integration with tools for viewing images (I use irfanview FREE) and image editors (I use another DonationCoder software called ScreenShot Captor for that). I have not come across anything else as effective and conducive to efficient work as this tool. Has sophisticated and easy to use “Virtual Folder” SQL search/tagging features, and good (though not always reliable) metadata capture.

Also worth looking at: Wezinc (http://www.wezinc.com/). Though not a Clipboard tool per se - it is a PIM with hierarchical structure (if required) and rather good mindmapping features - it has excellent and selectable auto-capture of stuff from the Clipboard. It can capture any text, RTF, HTML or images that pass through the Clipboard, including screen captures. The UI is simple and tidy, though not always intuitive to use. Has sophisticated and easy to use tag folder views with hierarchical notes structure, and reliable metadata capture.
I am a Beta tester for this software.