How do you use Clipboards

[lawrencegoodman]

I am intrigued by having multiple clipboards, but have no idea why you might use them. Just to stash away a few phrases? Why not use glossary instead?

What I really wish is that Nisus had the capacity to remember, say, the last five bits of text you cut or copied from a document. You could then bring up your history and choose which one you wanted. (Textmate has this).

Thanks.

[martin]

I suppose it comes down to how long you're going to want to keep the information around. A glossary entry may be useful if you're going to use a bit of text over and over for days, but storing it in a secondary clipboard might be a better use of time if the text will only be used during the current editing session.

Personally I think for the extra clipboards to be time efficient you'd need to assign them some keyboard shortcuts. Once you've done that they can be quite nice.

[darthkt]

The capability of accessing prior clipboards is provided by various programs. I like Butler. http://www.manytricks.com/butler/

It calls them pasteboards. Once enabled, you can hit the "control-spacebar," type "paste," and then you get a menu with your last six things in the clipboard. Magic!

Kevin

[Hamid]

What I really wish is that Nisus had the capacity to remember, say, the last five bits of text you cut or copied from a document. You could then bring up your history and choose which one you wanted.

You can use iCliplite which is free:
http://inventive.us/iCliplite/