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by defulmere 1462 days ago
LaunchBar[0], which predates Alfred but is similar in function, also has a fantastic searchable clipboard manager which includes a feature that I've not been able to find in any other clipboard manager: a push/pop stack.

With this feature you can, for example, copy a bunch of different items from a web page on to the stack, then paste them sequentially in a web form and pop them from the stack so that they're no longer in the clipboard history. With this workflow there's no hopping back and forth between pages, you do all of the copying at once in one place and all of the pasting at once in the other. It all happens via keyboard shortcuts, no interaction with the LaunchBar UI at all.

This feature is what's been keeping me on LaunchBar for almost 15 years now. Alfred looks great, but without this push/pop feature in the clipboard manager I'd have a hard time switching.

[0]: https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

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Pastebot [0] is another very nice clipboard manager that has this stack feature as well.

[0]: https://tapbots.com/pastebot/

Paste (https://pasteapp.io/) has this feature too.