Utilities: ClipList
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ClipList is a menu bar app which facilitates managing multiple clipboard text items by storing clipboard contents in a list displayed as menu items. Menu item titles are set to the clipboard content (or part of it when it is too long.) Items can be saved to files for persistent storage, as "ClipList documents," and later restored.
Selecting a menu item restores the saved clipboard text associated with that item to the clipboard, and also pastes it into the frontmost app.
Add clipboard text items to the list by selecting the "Save Clipboard" menu item. (The current clipboard text, or part of it, is displayed directly below this item.)
You can also add items using a service item called "Save to ClipList." To do this simply select the menu item from the Services menu of the current app:
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The program "pings" after the item is entered into the menu items:
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After launching ClipList you may need to open Services preferences (in the Keyboard preferences of System Preferences) and select this option.
You may want to open Services Preferences so that you can assign a keyboard shortcut to copy the app's current selection to the ClipList menu. Here the keyboard shortcut is set to "control-option-s" :
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Click down in the keyboard shortcuts column to start an edit.], then type the keys you want to use to make the shortcut.
Remove a specific item by selecting "Remove" from its submenu. Remove all the clipboard items by selecting the "Remove All Items" menu item.
The clipboard items are saved when the program is quit, and restored when it is launched. In addition you can choose the "Save Items..." menu item to save the clipboard list to a disk file. You can subsequently reload the clipboard items by selecting the "Open Items..." menu item. In this way you can keep repositories of clipboard items for future retrieval.
Put the application into your login items if you want it to launch automatically whenever you log in. Go to System Preferences "Accounts" and then click the "Login Items" pane. Then simply drag ClipList into the list.
System requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 and above.