Guides

How to see your clipboard history on macOS

How to use the clipboard keyboard shortcuts on macOS

Ten shortcuts, six inside the app and four that work anywhere. What each one does and when you would actually reach for it.

How to paste from the menu bar on macOS

Search your history and paste any of the first nine clippings with a number key, without opening a window or reaching for the mouse.

How to paste something you copied earlier on macOS

Your Mac only holds the last copy. Here is how to reach the one before it, and the one before that.

How to get back something you copied over on macOS

You copied something new over the thing you actually needed. Here is how to get the old one back, and how to make it stop happening.

How to find an image you copied on macOS

Screenshots and copied images are hard to describe and easy to filter. Here is the two-second route back to one.

How to search your clipboard history on macOS

Live search, tokens like type:link and pinned:yes, and a filters panel for kind, date and the app a clipping came from.

How to pin a clipboard item on macOS

Keep the address, the licence key and the boilerplate at the top of the list, where nothing can bury them — and know what a pin costs you.

How to see which app you copied from on macOS

Each entry carries the app it came from and whether it arrived from another device — and you can filter your whole history by it.

How to paste without formatting on macOS

One chord strips styling off whatever is on your clipboard, in any app at all — including the ones that offer no way to do it themselves.

How to copy text as Base64 on macOS

One chord encodes the clipboard as Base64, text or image, without a converter and without pasting anything into a web page.

How to remove tracking from a link on macOS

One chord copies a link with its utm_ parameters and click IDs removed, so what you send is the page and nothing else.

How to turn copied paths into files on macOS

Path text on the clipboard becomes real file objects the Finder accepts — no navigating to each location by hand.

How to copy a file path as text on macOS

Copy a file in the Finder and its path is recorded as text too — so you can paste either one, without converting anything by hand.

How to tell if a copy came from your iPhone on macOS

Clippings that arrived over Universal Clipboard are marked as such — and when the signals disagree, the entry says so rather than guessing.

How to pause your clipboard history on macOS

One shortcut stops recording, the menu-bar icon shows the state, and the same shortcut brings it back.