Apple - Copy and Paste Multiple Things? OSX

I use clipmenu, it's been great, lots of customizable shortcuts -

http://www.clipmenu.com/

Here's what I like about it:

  1. Easy keyboard combo, hit Cmd+Shift+V (or customize it) and it brings up a small sensible fully keyboard navigable menu where you can select from your recent clipboard entries.
  2. You can also optionally add saved snippets of text, I put my stupid auto generated Oracle password in there, win!
  3. And other than that, it's stable and stays out of the way, you can configure it to start automatically on startup, so you never are without it, it's a life saver

I really like Flycut. Available here: https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut

Like all of the other answers here, it's a clipboard manager which stores every item you copy using ⌘+c in a list. Then you can press ⌘+shift+v to see a list of the items you have copied and choose one to paste.

Unlike the other answers here, it's free, open source, and doesn't come with a load of other functionality. Also it is actively maintained unlike clipmenu (last release ClipMenu 1.0.0a1 released Nov 11, 2014).


Slightly different implementation, but will do what you want:

LaunchBar keeps a history of your clipboard, so you can copy multiple things using the usual keyboard combo - C and then paste them using (for me, I may have changed from the default):

  • hold down
    • tap \ to view clipboard history
    • tap until desired clipping is selected
  • release

I've found it to be a pretty useful workflow. I do have to flush the clipboard history after dealing with passwords though. I keep it set at 10 items to limit my exposure if I forget.

Launchbar is free to try and $35 to buy.

I'm not sure how they limit the free version now, but back before I bought it they let you do five types of activities per login, so you could do the copy, paste, and clipboard history deletion freely without running into the limit

I do not use it because I've found Launchbar to be more useful, but it looks like Alfred includes clipboard history in the unlimited free version.

Based on the screenshot it looks like Alfred uses shortcuts closer to what you wanted.