Wow, it has been really dead around here (on the whole board) recently.
I thought I would post a reminder about a great utility that some of you would find helpful for your writing. I say "reminder" because I may (not sure) have mentioned it years ago.
At times, in my research, I find that I need to copy bits and pieces from articles online. Of course, in Windows you have the old trusty Clipboard (Ctrl+C). The problem is that you can only save one clip; the next use of Ctrl+C overwrites whatever was in the Clipboard. You have to copy and then paste each item to a text editor or word processor. This can be quite cumbersome.
Through the years I have tried many free utilities that were supposed to let you copy a sequence of clips without overwriting the clip that was already in the Clipboard.
I tried a bunch of these programs through the years. Every one of them had a problem of some kind.
I had previously used a commercial program, ClipCache, but I had either lost it in a computer crash or for some reason could not use it anymore. It is an old program, dating back to the late 1990s. However, it is still maintained and upgraded.
I rediscovered the program two or three years ago, and now it has become one of those indispensable programs that I hope will never be abandoned.
It is not free, but it is not expensive, and I use it on all my computers. I have never had any issue when I added it to another computer. (Please be honest, folks, and only use programs on your personal computers, not on those of your friends, etc.)
Here is the webpage for the program.
A quick description of what it does (and it does lots of things that I will not describe):
You open the program. It sits in your tray at the bottom of your computer screen.
You will discover that you can have multiple files (databases) from which you can select.
Copy some text and save it. Copy some more text and save it. As you save your clips, you can see the first line of each in a window. Another window, directly below the first, displays the entire clip that you select from the list of saved clips.
You can do all sorts of things with the clips. For example, you can combine them into one text file. You can change the order of the clips. You can select an option to paste a selected clip automatically into the last open program (like Word).
In each database file you can have several folders. My usual database has folders for Screenwriting, German, JFK, and other subjects. I can select any one of these as the "active" folder that will receive any clip that I save.
But you can also have another file entirely, with its own folders. I do not find that this capability (to open other files) is necessary, but it would be helpful in some circumstances.
Wonderful program, very helpful. It has my stamp of approval. You have to work with it for a while to learn you way through the abundance of options. I keep things simple. I save text as Unicode and only occasionally use some of the special features.
Try it if you need a way to save clips.
The link again is here.
I thought I would post a reminder about a great utility that some of you would find helpful for your writing. I say "reminder" because I may (not sure) have mentioned it years ago.
At times, in my research, I find that I need to copy bits and pieces from articles online. Of course, in Windows you have the old trusty Clipboard (Ctrl+C). The problem is that you can only save one clip; the next use of Ctrl+C overwrites whatever was in the Clipboard. You have to copy and then paste each item to a text editor or word processor. This can be quite cumbersome.
Through the years I have tried many free utilities that were supposed to let you copy a sequence of clips without overwriting the clip that was already in the Clipboard.
I tried a bunch of these programs through the years. Every one of them had a problem of some kind.
I had previously used a commercial program, ClipCache, but I had either lost it in a computer crash or for some reason could not use it anymore. It is an old program, dating back to the late 1990s. However, it is still maintained and upgraded.
I rediscovered the program two or three years ago, and now it has become one of those indispensable programs that I hope will never be abandoned.
It is not free, but it is not expensive, and I use it on all my computers. I have never had any issue when I added it to another computer. (Please be honest, folks, and only use programs on your personal computers, not on those of your friends, etc.)
Here is the webpage for the program.
A quick description of what it does (and it does lots of things that I will not describe):
You open the program. It sits in your tray at the bottom of your computer screen.
You will discover that you can have multiple files (databases) from which you can select.
Copy some text and save it. Copy some more text and save it. As you save your clips, you can see the first line of each in a window. Another window, directly below the first, displays the entire clip that you select from the list of saved clips.
You can do all sorts of things with the clips. For example, you can combine them into one text file. You can change the order of the clips. You can select an option to paste a selected clip automatically into the last open program (like Word).
In each database file you can have several folders. My usual database has folders for Screenwriting, German, JFK, and other subjects. I can select any one of these as the "active" folder that will receive any clip that I save.
But you can also have another file entirely, with its own folders. I do not find that this capability (to open other files) is necessary, but it would be helpful in some circumstances.
Wonderful program, very helpful. It has my stamp of approval. You have to work with it for a while to learn you way through the abundance of options. I keep things simple. I save text as Unicode and only occasionally use some of the special features.
Try it if you need a way to save clips.
The link again is here.
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