COPYQ
Add real power to your clipboard
Nick Peers dons his best hiking gear and goes hunting for a simple clipboard tool to rule them all. CopyQ is happy to oblige.
Credit: https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ
Nick Peers dreads to think how many items he’s copied and pasted to clipboards over the past 30-plus years. It’s enough to turn his hair white (from its current grey).
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CopyQ comes with comprehensive documentation. Read it at https://copyq. readthedocs. io/en/latest/ index.html, where you’ll be able to discover everything the program is capable of.
The clipboard is one notable part of any operating system that keeps missing out on some love and attention. This brilliant timesaving tool has one fundamental flaw: it can only remember the last item you copied to it.
Thankfully, there’s a cottage industry of clipboard enhancement tools, and one of our favourites has to be CopyQ. It enables you to store multiple clipboard entries comprising plain text, rich text, HTML snippets and images, organised as you see fit into tabs, and editable via its own built-in editor. These clips can then easily be pasted into any compatible document as you see fit.
As always, you’ll find CopyQ available from the Ubuntu Software Centre, but it’s a frozen version (3.10.0 in Ubuntu 20.04 for example). Instead, ensure you have the latest version – 4.1.0 at time of writing – by installing it via flatpak or its own dedicated repo: