Master the copy-paste clipboard in Windows with Ditto and ClipAngel (3 of 3)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
- See how to use Ditto Clipboard Manager to become a copy-paste pro. We also take a quick look at ClipAngel. Both are free clipboard managers that can boost your productivity in Windows. The native Windows 10 Clipboard History feature is lacking a ton of functionality, so making the switch to one of these tools can save you a ton of time.
Follow-up video showing more Ditto features: • More awesome Ditto cli...
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🔗 Links
Ditto Clipboard Manager - ditto-cp.sourc...
ClipAngel - sourceforge.ne...
You can also find a detailed blog post I wrote on this subject, and more, at blog.danskingd...
This is video 3 of 3 in my series about copy-pasting.
Part 1 - Absolute basics of copy-pasting: • Windows Basics: Copy a...
Part 2 - Using the Clipboard History built into Windows 10 (no 3rd party apps): • Level up your copy/pas...
Follow-up video showing more Ditto features: • More awesome Ditto cli...
⏱ Timestamps
00:00 Why use Ditto instead of the Windows Clipboard History
01:11 Quick overview using Ditto
02:59 Exploring Ditto options I like to customize
09:15 Getting Ditto
10:10 More Ditto features
11:01 Quick overview of ClipAngel
12:45 Wrap up
📝 You might also enjoy my blog: blog.danskingd...
Tip: In Ditto, using shift+down/up arrows, you can select multiple items to paste at once (instead of having to press Alt-1, Alt-2, Alt-3).
I never realized you could multi-select (with Ctrl or Shift) from Ditto before pasting. Great tip! Thanks!
The paste positions saved my day of mundane data entry. Great free app
I liked the way you explained it, very good video. Would love to see more videos, keep going!
Thanks for the words of encouragement :) I created a follow up video to this one that you might enjoy. Cheers! th-cam.com/video/0fRL6PFGckM/w-d-xo.html
Good summary, thank you.
You didn't mention synchronizing across multiple computers.
Thanks. I know that Ditto has the capability to share clips between computers, and that you can configure it in the "Friends" tab in the Options, but I've never done it myself yet so I can't speak to it much.
I discuss this a bit in my follow up video th-cam.com/video/0fRL6PFGckM/w-d-xo.html
Tip: Save Database Path in Google Drive Folder, you can use save and use in another PC
Very helpful video, thank you for saving my time
Is there a tutorial on how to paste the last 5 things quickly? I think the audience for that is in the millions😇
So I really only need to keep copy and paste simle. I wanna replace ctrl+C and ctrl+p with a hotkey (for example c or v) .
but your video doesnt teach that and still shows me having to do ctrl+c for a lot of tasks.
Want to use in Ditto the Default Shortcut for WIndows CLipboard Manager, Windows key + V.
And Delete-Deactivate WIndows CLipboard Manager.
Can't find a way to Customize Windows 10 shortcuts
Yeah, you won't be able to assign that keyboard shortcut to Ditto until you remove it from Windows. You can try the suggestions here (superuser.com/a/1440344/120746) to remove the Windows Key + V shortcut from Windows.
NO option to have a shortcut to add current date ?
Thank you :)
Hello from New York City! How do you get live confirmation of keyboard press on screen? Because my right eyesight is getter blurry compared to the left side. Actually looking for a snippet manager to fill out web forms. The snippets would be common static terms like name, address, phone etc. Similar web based autofill, but more configurable. Like code snippet or auto hot key (AHK) shortcuts, they do not expire or get deleted from the clipboard manager. Any clues appreciated. Very informative video. Appreciate it. Thank you.
Hey there, to show key presses on the screen I use software called Carnac (github.com/Code52/carnac); I've had issues with the official version though, so I use a forked version (github.com/bfritscher/carnac/releases). You can use groups in Ditto (not shown in the video) to hold things like common Name, Address, Phone number, etc. so that they're grouped together and easily accessible. If it's your personal info though that you're filling out on web forms, you may be happier with something like LastPass, which is a password manager, but can also autofill web forms with your information. There's many other browser extensions as well for automatically filling in web forms if you do a search for them. Hope that helps.
Hello Daniel.
Is there a way to store the hotkey in the same order.
What I would like is that, when I use the first hotkey I always get the same text. Now the last cut/copy will be at the top of the list.
Yes, you can right-click on the clip you want to always have at the top, then choose Clip Order -> Make Top Sticky Clip. Now that clip will always be in the first position. You can use the Sticky Clip options to have many different clips stick to the top of the list so that they are always in the same position.
@@deadlydog Tnx, just what I was looking for.
Greetings from the Netherlands
I’ve made a follow up video with more information on this. th-cam.com/video/0fRL6PFGckM/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for this. What is the blue line to the left of some of the entries indicate? And how can you remove it?
The blue line means that you've pasted that clip from Ditto at least once; So if you scroll through your list you can easily see which clips you've used Ditto for. You can disable it by going into the Options -> General tab -> Advanced button and changing the "Show indicator a clip has been pasted" setting to False.
thank you very much
this is really helping
what screen recording app are you using?
For this video I used Camtasia to record and edit it. It's not free though, as you have to pay annually for upgrades.
I've been searching for the longest a way to sort entries alphanumerically in Ditto. Anyone got a clue how to go about it ?
Is it possible to copy a row of 6 items separated by space then paste the 6 items separated by tab key?
real question is how do we copy five times(ctrl-c) and: paste last 5 paste positions one bye one using only one hotkey(not five!)?
My follow up video may help with this question. th-cam.com/video/0fRL6PFGckM/w-d-xo.html
is there a way to just simply paste the positions without having to first press the activate button? it blocks the screen
Yup, if you go into the Options and then the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, you'll see global hotkeys for the last 10 items copied. By default they're not set, but you can set your own hotkeys up.
I show this off in my follow up video. th-cam.com/video/0fRL6PFGckM/w-d-xo.html
What's the program you use to show keys you clicked on screen?
It's called Carnac. You can read more about it here: blog.danskingdom.com/Use-Carnac-to-show-key-presses-on-screen/
How do I "Paste selected Plain Text" using a keyboard shortcut even if the clipboard window of Ditto is not active?
Because "Paste selected Plain Text" using a keyboard shortcut is not done unless the Clipboard window is active? Thanks.
Instead of using "Paste selected Plain Text" in the Options -> Quick Paste Keyboard tab, use "Text Only Paste" in the Options -> Keyboard Shortcuts tab. This one allows you to paste whatever is on the clipboard as plain text, even if the Ditto window is not open or active.
@@deadlydog But this option "Text Only Paste" cannot be assigned to the specefic shortcut "Alt+n" or "Alt + any other key", whereas "Paste selected Plain Text" can be customized as a keyboard shortcut "Alt+n" for this option.
@@yfjuu6 I just tried and it does let me assign "Alt+n" to the "Text Only Paste", however when I attempt to use it in an application it does not work, as pressing the Alt key takes you into the apps Menu bar. So I think the issue is that the Alt key is reserved in Windows for the current application's menu bar. I guess it works in the "Paste selected Plain Text" field because that has to be used with Ditto active, and Ditto does not have a menu bar (most apps do though). You can use "Ctrl+Alt+n" though or a different key combo in the "Text Only Paste". Hopefully that helps.
Does Ditto have "After Paste" funtion? For ex. I want to let Ditto execute a specific Action (a Shortcut, like Alt+X) immediately after Pasting in the current cursor position (in the opened software).
if Yes, how to do it? and also can I assign it to ONLY a specific Group?
It does, but I haven't played around with it yet myself to know exactly how it works or what its limitations are. You go into the Options and then hit the Advanced button, and in the Advanced Options there you'll find "On Copy Scripts" and "On Paste Scripts" buttons. You can click those buttons to go in and setup scripts to run after you copy or paste, along with web links to the documentation and some examples.
hey I want to paste everything once that I copied in clipboard does ditto have that feature?
Yup, you can multi-select items using Ctrl and Shift in Ditto to paste multiple items at a time. You can also use Ctrl+A to select every item in the Ditto clipboard and then paste it all :)
@@deadlydog dam bro ty u so much it really helped me out
1 last question how to clear clipboard ?
@@smooky5092 Select all (Ctrl+A) and then Delete will delete all of the clipboard items from Ditto
Hi really love ditto, but is there any way to have a shortcut after opening ditto to directly search to reduce consuming time?and is there any way to have a shortcut for autotype by using couple of alphabet?for example if you tipe alt+s+s+ it will automatically autotype to the word search?thank you
Hey Ahmad, as soon as you open Ditto (either via the keyboard shortcut or using your mouse) you can just start typing and it will automatically search.
As for automatically expanding text (e.g. "sc" => "screenshot") I don't believe Ditto does that natively, but you can use AutoHotkey for that functionality (it's called a hotstring in AHK), and you can have hotstrings apply only to certain apps, like Ditto, or everywhere in Windows. Here's the link for more info: www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotstrings.htm
I made another video on Ditto that may answer your question with global hot keys. Check it out at th-cam.com/video/0fRL6PFGckM/w-d-xo.html
is it possible to have a hotkey paste and enter? or will u always have to hit enter manually
Yup, if you go into the Options window and the Quick Paste Keyboard tab, look for the `Paste Add One Line Feed` command and assign it a hot key 👍
@@deadlydog hmm i must be doing something wrong nothing is changing.. i set it to a hotkey
@@ParanoidxSniper I just tried it myself and it's a bit nuanced, and using the GUI controls first helps understand it better. If I use the GUI, by right-clicking on one of the Ditto clips and choosing Special Paste -> Paste + One Line Feed, then pasting adds the newline character after the paste as expected. So that hotkey we assign is not a global hotkey, it's just to be used when you have Ditto open. Also, it does not itself paste the clip, it just enables the "Paste + One Line Feed" option for you so you do not have to go manually enable it yourself with the mouse. Now that I tried it out myself I can see it's not quite what you're looking for. I assumed it was a global hotkey for pasting text and adding a newline at the end, but that's not the case.
So I think Ditto can still do what you want, but it's not just an easy setting that you can just toggle on. If you go into the Options -> Advanced Options -> On Paste Scripts window, you are able to add custom ChaiScript scripts to perform additional options when you paste text. There is a link there that shows some examples as well. You can probably write a script to insert the newline character after pasting the clip. I haven't played with these at all myself yet though, so I'm not certain how straight-forward it will be to do what you need, and possibly assign it to a global hotkey so it doesn't happen for EVERY paste.
How to copy all the clipboard history completely.. help me
You can use Ctrl+A to select all of the entries in Ditto and then Ctrl+C to copy them. That allows you to copy everything that Ditto has in it's list and then paste it wherever you like. Note though that if you have like 10,000+ entries in your Ditto clipboard history, it's going to copy/paste a massive amount of data.
@@deadlydog This worked.. 🔥 thankyou 👍
ditto only has 3 keyboard bindings, do u know another program that has more than that?
Hmmm, which keyboard bindings are you referring to? The 3 to activate it? Or others for accessing items on the clipboard. If you look in the Options in the Keyboard Shortcuts tab and Quick Paste Keyboard tab you'll see there are a lot of keyboard shortcut options. If you're talking about how many keyboard shortcuts you can configure to open the main window though, yeah, it only allows you to specify 3 different ones. Why do you need more than that? I'm not aware of any other applications that offer more than that, but there are other ways to configure keyboard shortcuts in Windows itself that you could leverage to launch Ditto.
@@deadlydog im referring to copy buffers.
Can't make the clipboard positions static. Position 1 gets always overwritten when copying. This tool sucks
I believe that's what the "groups" are for; to have a static list of things you paste frequently. I haven't played around with them yet though.
Actually, just noticed you can right-click on a clip and choose Clip Order -> Make Top Sticky Clip to make static clipboard positions. Looks like that's exactly what you're asking for.
I show this off in my follow up video. th-cam.com/video/0fRL6PFGckM/w-d-xo.html
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