Fatal Flaw - Hunt and Peck for that copy I did 2 days ago...

This is a pretty app that suggests it can provide a concise way of using a multi-clipboard approach to Mac life. It is very Mac-ish in that the interface is clean, inviting and responsive. (even attractive)

It is just that the workflow is a non-starter. While it supports multiple clipboards, its fatal flaw is that you are forced to fish around and try and figure out what app you used to perform the copy a few minutes ago or a couple of days ago (good luck with that).

If you have run 20+ apps in the last 3 days, and you know you copied that email address from somewhere, and you need it NOW, you are relgatted to fishing around looking for that email address in one of the 20+ apps listed in xClipboard. Instead, with a linear list of clipboards, you could quickly scroll down through that list and identify anything with an “@“ in it visually to see what email address you are looking for among the variety of email addresses you copied in the last 3 days.

What happnes is that you will hopefully try and remember part of the email address and punt… go to Spotlight and search your Finder because finding in xClipboard ain’t gonna happen. It’s a clipboard labyrinth with no Jennifer Connelly as your prize.

And why did I pick 3 days? That is the maximum age of anything in the xClipboard before it expires and disapears. (really?!).

So, for now, until it does not work any more, I will stick with the late great PopCopy2 (R.I.P. 2006) which provides immediate access to all clipboards even by a keystroke… and when I say all, I mean as long as I want to keep them… and have enough disk space. March 18th is my oldest one currently… almost a month ago.

Wm. about xClipboard