Clipdiary - Clipboard Manager

Improved performance at searching saved data

noreply@blogger.com (Begemot) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:07:00 +0000

In the latest version of Clipdiary, we have added a number of improvements. Now, searching saved clipboard history and pasting selected clip is faster and easier than ever.

First improvement — to start typing a search text, you no longer have to jump to the special field. Simply start typing it right on the clip list. Clipdiary will automatically place the cursor in the text box.

And second — after entering a filter, you no longer need to click on the filtered clips. Simply use the Up and Down arrow keys to select the text or image you need.

Look up the required data in the saved clipboard history quickly and save time for more interesting tasks :)

Exporting multiple clips to one or multiple files

noreply@blogger.com (Begemot) — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:19:00 +0000

It's been a long time since Clipdiary allowed saving any text you had ever copied to clipboard to a text file (as well as text with images). The new version introduces a new feature — now you can save several clips from the database to a single file. Or, even export the entire database to a set of txt or png files.

Clipdiary supports exporting all types of text data, images and file lists. Now you can keep all your important data in one place, and it will be with you always!

We are on Facebook now!

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:10:00 +0000

We created Clipdiary's page on Facebook. We'll be glad to see you in our friends there! Become Clipdiary's fan on Facebook now.

It would be great if you help us distribute Clipdiary and invite your friends to our page. Thank you! :)

Incremental search through clipboard history

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:13:00 +0000

In Clipdiary 3.1 incremental search appeared. In previous versions you should type a phrase to search into the search field, hit the "search" button and only after that searching started.

Now you don't need to hit that button to start the search process. Searching is automatically started after you type several characters into the search field.

Some options to set up the incremental search through the clipboard history are added in the next version of the program.

Open program options or press F4 and go to the Advanced tab. You can see Incremental search item there with the following settings:

Start after - number of characters you should type before the search starts automaticaly.

Delay - is the delay after you pressed a key on a keyboard and before Clipdiary starts to search. It is 200 ms by default.

We have also corrected a bug with searching non-latin characters in the new version of Clipdiary. The search was case-insensitive when searching by latin characters and case-sensitive with non-latin characters. We fixed this. Now search by national symbols is case-insensitive.

By the way, do you remember that you can use % as a wildcard character to substitute any other characters when searching through the clipboard history?

Highlighting of the used clipboard history

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:48:00 +0000

We are currently working on a new version of Clipdiary. It will be available on September, 1. There is already added feature to highlight strings that were inserted or copied.

Our users asked to add such option. In most cases when you paste a clip from clipboard history you most likely will paste it again and again. But you copy some new items and the clip you work with is moved up in the clipboard history list. So when you open Clipdiary to paste that clip again, you need some time to find it. Now the process of looking for the used clips is simpler: they are highlighted.

The highlight is removed when you switch to another page or restart Clipdiary. If you just hide and show Clipdiary, the highlight is not removed.

You can see a screenshot of the options below.

You can set up this feature in the Options of Clipdiary. Press F4 to show Options and go to the Interface tab. There you can switch off the highlighting or choose colors of the highlighted text and background.

Playing sound when copying data to the clipboard

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:56:00 +0000

Users often ask if Clipdiary can play sound when you copy something to the clipboard. This feature is not really important but we implemented it for you.

To enable playing sounds open File->Options->General tab and check "Play sound" checkbox. There you can choose the sound you like best from the list of 8 possible variants.

You can also add your own sounds if you want. Put them to the C:\Program Files\Clipdiary\sounds\ folder.

You will hear sound every time you copy something to the clipboard.

Portable clipboard manager

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:10:00 +0000

Do you know you can run Clipdiary from USB-drive without installation?

You can carry it with you on a flash-drive and always have your clipboard history at hand.

Download portable clipboard manager Clipdiary and get your clipboard history anywhere.

Just extract it to any folder where you want to store it and run clipdiary-portable.exe in order to launch Clipdiary.

How to paste several clipboard history items together

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:15:00 +0000

You may often need to paste several clipboard history items together. The Clipdiary clipboard history viewer window is hidden after you copy or paste by default settings.

To keep the main window on the screen after copying or pasting you should go to the menu File and uncheck 'Hide after copying or pasting' option. You can also press Ctrl+F2 on the keyboard.

And do you remember that you can drag-and-drop clipboard history clips from the main window to the needed document?

Search through the clipboard history

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:32:00 +0000

How often do you search through the saved clipboard history?

Do you know that you can use % symbol in the search field as a wildcard character to substitute for any other character or characters in a string?

For example, you can type "john%.com" to find email addresses

johnsmith@hotmail.com
johnsmith123@yahoo.com
johnsmith@gmail.com

That is not frequently used feature, but sometimes it might be really helpful.

How to config tooltips behavior in Clipdiary

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:07:00 +0000

You can config some aspects of tooltips behavior at the File->Options->Advanced tab.

Automatically show full text of clip in tooltip. When you highlight clip in clipboard history viewer you see the tooltip with the full text of the clip. You can disable this function if you do not want to see tooltips every time you highlight clip. Remember, that you can always show/hide the tooltip using Arrow right and Arrow left keys.

Time to show tooltip. Now you can define time to show the tooltip by yourself. Time is set in milliseconds. Remember that 1 second = 1000 milliseconds. If you set this paraneter to 0, the tooltip won't be hidden automatically. You can also define time to show tooltip for quick copy.

Title for Quick Copy Tooltip. When using Quick Copy function you see a tooltip with text of the clip. Users often asked us to change the title of this tooltip or to remove it at all. We implemented this option and so you can config the title of this tooltip now.

Use own word wrap algorithm for tooltips. There is a bug in Windows 7 and Vista word-wrap algorithm. It works slowly and thus the tooltip is drawn slowly. We implemented our own algorythm for word wrap. It works fast, but there is a bug - it shows hyphenations not correctly. If this option is checked Clipdiary will use the own algorithm for the word wrap, otherwise - the system one.

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noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:05:00 +0000

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Clipdiary Advanced options

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:45:00 +0000

Starting with version 2.8 Advanced options in Clipdiary appeared. Now you can customize the program up to your own preferences.

Go to File->Options->Advanced tab and you'll see the following options.

Number of clips per page. When you open clipboard viewer window you see your clipboard history divided into pages. No you can easily choose number of clips to show per page.

Title length. Clipdiary creates a title for each clip. You see these titles in clipboard history viewer. You can edit titles of clips if you want. Now you can config the title length. You may choose more symbols if you need to see more text in the title. Changing this parameter won't effect the old clips, their title will remain unchaged. Only newer copied clips will have the length you've chosen.

Emulate Ctrl+V for pasting. Clipboard history clips sometimes are pasted incorrectly into some applications. If that often happens you can check this option and Clipdiary will emulate Ctrl+V key presses when pasting clips.

How to save clipboard data to file

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:09:00 +0000

Clipdiary saves the complete clipboard history for you. You can easily reuse any data you were copying while work with the computer: copy the data back to the clipboard or paste it directly to any application. But do you know, that you can save data to .txt file without opening of some text editor?

Pop-up Clipdiary

Right-click the needed clip

Choose Advanced->Save text to file from the context menu

You may save to text file several clips together. Just select several clips in clipboard history viewer and follow the above instructions.

The feature may be useful when you collect some data from a web-page and need to put it to one file. For example, list of films you want to visit from large cinema schedule, or maybe several jokes from a big jokes collection to share with your friends later :)

How to thumb through clipboard history pages

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:56:00 +0000

You can see the full clipboard history in Clipdiary clipboard history viewer. You see 50 latest clips. (By the way, do you remember how to config number of clipboard history items that are displayed per page?)

To see previous clips you should leaf over the page. There are two ways to do this:

With help of the mouse - click '<' or '>' button at the bottom of the page

From the keyboard - press 'Alt+Arrow left' to go to the previous page or 'Alt+Arrow right' to go to the next page

Multiselection of clipboard history items

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:40:00 +0000

One Clipdiary's new features is multiselection. Users often asked how to delete more then one clip at a time, but there were no way to select several clips in the clipboard history viewer. Now you can easily do this. Hold Ctrl or Shift key and select the clips you need. If you need to select all clips at the page, press Ctrl+A.

Presently you can only delete selected items or export them to txt file. But multiselection opens opportunities to implement new features. For example, we will make an option to paste several clips simultaniously.

Remember, that you can simply clear the complete clipboard history on exit.

You are welcome to download new version of Clipdiary clipboard tool.

Where is clipboard history stored?

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:47:00 +0000

Clipdiary saves everything that you copy to the clipboard. The clipboard history is stored in one database file. To see the path to the file open menu File->Options and go to the Database tab.
If you need to store the clipboard history database in some other place, you may do the following:

Open the Database tab in the program options

Click Clone and Switch and specify the path to the new location

Number of stored clipboard history items is set on the same options page. It is 20000 clips by default. If you want to store more clips, you may set 30000 to save the clipboard history on the longer period of time.

The copied data is compressed before it is saved to the database. So even if you often copy large images, the database will still have a reasonable size. You do not have to worry that the saved clipboard history occupies much space on the disk.

If you do not want to save the clipboard history between sessions, see how to clear the clipboard history on exit

How to clear clipboard history on exit?

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:55:00 +0000

Clipdiary clipboard manager saves the complete history of everything you copied. It is very useful to have access to the clipboard data.
Some of our users need to automatically clear the clipboard history on the computer reboot. To achieve this you should

Go to the Database tab in the program Options

Set the maximum number of saved clips to "0"

Clipdiary will monitor the clipboard and save all copied data, but clear the saved history when you shut down the computer or exit Clipdiary.

Improved quickly copying mechanism in Clipdiary

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:23:00 +0000

Clipdiary v2.6 appeared. In this version we improved work with quickly copying clipboard history items back to the clipboard. We made it more convenient and basicaly more quick.

To begin with, we solved the problem with not ideal behaviour of the tooltip which shows the copied text. The tooltip appeared at the screen once you pressed Ctrl + Shift + Arrow up and disappeared in two seconds. This caused some inconvenience - too little time to read some long clip and in case of small clip that you can read in a second the tooltip remained on the screen odd time and interfered you from work.

Now you control the time it is displayed by yourself. Its very simple - just hold the keys pressed as much time as you need to select the clip. As soon as you release buttons the tooltip disappeares.

And most importantly we added an option to automatically paste the selected clip after it is copied to the clipboard. In the previous version you could use the key combination (Ctrl + Shift + Arrow up\down) for quickly copying item from the clipboard history to the clipboard. Then you should hit Ctrl + V to paste data. Now you don't have to do even this! The new option (you can switch it on on the Hot Keys tab in the Program Options) makes Clipdiary automatically paste the selected clip as soon as you release buttons.

Remember that if you pasted the wrong text you can simply hit Ctrl+Z to cancel the changes you made.

Paste faster, do not lose your time :)

How to quickly copy recently copied data back to the clipboard

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:45:00 +0000

When work with Clipdiary to see the clipboard history you usualy open clipboard history viewer window.

But why open the window every time if you can copy items from the clipboard history back to clipboard without opening Clipdiary? You can save your time and improve productivity using the extra hot keys:

Ctrl+Shift+Up - quickly copy the previous clipboard history item back to the clipboard

Ctrl+Shift+Down - quickly copy the next clipboard history item back to the clipboard

After pressing the above hotkeys the previous/next clip will be copied to the clipboard and you'll see the tooltip with the full text of the selected clip.
The rest is simple. Just press Ctrl+V and paste the needed clipboard history item from the clipboard.

Control tooltip with the full text of clipboard history item

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:24:00 +0000

When open Clipdiary you see the clipboard history items in reverse chronological order. There are 50 clips per page by default. You can config the number of displayed items by yourself
For each clip only the title is displayed, not more than 50 symbols. By the way, do you know that you can give your own names to the clips?
The full text of the selected clip is shown in the tooltip near the clipboard history viewer.
The tooltip is shown for only 5 seconds, than it is hidden and is shown again only after you select the next clip.
Sometimes it is not convenient. If the full text of the clip is little too long you do not have time to read it. So we've added extra keys to control the tooltip

Arrow Right - show the tooltip for the selected clipboard history clip and do not hide it automatically

Arrow Left - hide the tooltip for the current clip

Search through the clipboard history

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:23:00 +0000

There is a Search option in Clipdiary. You can search through the saved clipboard history to find the data you copied some time ago.
To do this just type the search condition into the search field at the bottom of Clipdiary's Window and hit the 'Search' button. You'll see only clips that satisfy the search condition.

To return to the complete clipboard history hit the 'Reset' button or F9 key on the keyboard. Selection will be automatically moved to the last captured clip.

But if you do not want to move the focus to the last copied text and need it to remain on the currently selected clip from the search results, just hit Ctrl+F9 instead of the 'Reset' button or F9.

This could be very helpful when you need to find some item and do not remember its text but remember the text of the clip that was copied near the needed one.

Config number of clipboard history items that are displayed per page

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:44:00 +0000

When you open Clipdiary you see the newest items of clipboard history. There are 50 clips per page by default. To see the previous 50 clips you should go to the previous page (click navigation buttons '<' at the bottom of clipboard history viewer window).

Users often ask how to change number of clips that are displayed per page. There is no such option in GUI but you can do the following:

Close Clipdiary
Open config file - C:\Documents and Settings\User name\ApplicationData\Clipdiary\clipdiary.cfg in any text editor
Find "[Options]"
Write "CountClipAtPage=40" on the next line. 40 is number of clips that are displayed per page. If you want 30 or 10, write "CountClipAtPage=30" or "CountClipAtPage=10".

You should get something like

[Options]
CountClipAtPage=40

Then start Clipdiary and make sure that you see as many clips per page, as you want.

So you can change a number of clips to avoid the need to use the vertical scrollbar in Clipdiary main window.
Now that is the only way to config number of clipboard history items that are displayed per page. We suppose to add this option to GUI in the next versions.

Starting with version 2.8 you can config number of clipboard history items per page in the program options.

Drag&drop clips

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:42:00 +0000

Now you can drag-and-drop clips from Clipdiary to any edit field.
That is a great feature! I myself use it very often, it saves my time.
For example, you need to copy and paste several text fragments from one application to some other.
First you should copy the first fragment and paste it to new place, then the second fragment and so on. Now you can do the following:
1. Copy all the fragments, all of them will be saved in clipboard history.
2. Open Clipdiary.
3. Tell Clipdiary to stay on top (click File->Always on Top).
4. Drag&drop items to needed application.

You'd especially like this feature if you prefer working with mouse rather than with keyboard.

Give to clips your own names

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:41:00 +0000

Today I am going to describe an ability to assign names to clips.
There were lots of users who asked us to implement such feature, and you can see it now in Clipdiary.
Starting with version 2.4 you can give own name to any clip. So if you copied information that may be needed some time later, but you do not know where to write it down, you can save it in Clipdiary. You give clip appropriate name to find it easier later.

How it works?
1. Copy text to the clipboard. It automatically will be recorded by Clipdiary and saved in clipboard history.
2. Open Clipdiary (Ctrl+D by default, or click Clipdiary's icon in the system tray).
3. Select the item and press F2 on keyboard, or right-click the item and choose "Rename" from the context menu.
4. Enter new title for this clipboard history entry and press OK.
5. Now you see your item with suitable title, so you can find it easily later.

We hope this feature will help you safely store data and easily find it.

Introduction

noreply@blogger.com (Victoria) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:14:00 +0000

This is blog about Clipdiary - the best (as we consider :) ) Clipboard Manager for Windows. In this blog I'll write about some features implemented in Clipdiary's new versions, problems Clipdiary can solve and share some tips&tricks. From this blog you"ll learn how Clipdiary can help you in your daily routins.

Clipdiary is a little program that will record everything you copy to clipboard. So you can easily find data you've copied some time ago.

If you still did not install Clipdiary - download this clipboard manager immediately, Clipdiary will sure become one of the most used programs in your computer!