The Case for Clipboard Managers

When Apple eventually Sherlocks one into MacOS they&#x27;ll do a whole section of the keynote about how innovative and revolutionary it is, and everyone will start writing fawning articles...<p>But, in seriousness, I don&#x27;t think they will. The footgun of &quot;my password is sitting in my clipboard history&quot; is just too powerful to give to the non-nerds. Maybe with local &quot;AI&quot; detection of passwords to automatically remove those they might consider it?

I never used a clipboard manager up until about 3 months ago when I decided to give Maccy a try. It&#x27;s a free&#x2F;open source one for macOS. It has absolutely ruined my ability to use a computer without one now! The inline popup feature when hitting cmd+shift+c to copy is amazing and I use it probably 500 times a day.

I&#x27;ve gotten a lot of use out of the clipboard hiatory on Android and on windows 10&#x2F;11. I just wish I had more control over them. Android especially doesn&#x27;t give you an option to disable or lengthen the hour timer that clears things from your clipboard history which is really annoying when I copy something for later and need to go find it again after an hour when it&#x27;s been removed for me.