Clipdiary is a useful clipboard manager for Windows that records and keeps track of everything you copy or cut (text, images, files, links, etc.), allowing you to easily paste any items that have been recorded. Clipdiary gives users the option to paste items as plain-text only (stripping away any formatting) and saves recorded items even after Windows restart. Never lose anything you’ve copied or cut again with Clipdiary.
Clipdiary records every piece of data that goes to the Windows clipboard, meaning that you can easily retrieve any information that was once copied to the clipboard (if Clipdiary was running at that moment).
This clipboard manager is handy if you want to:
- Quickly find and paste a piece of text that was in the clipboard some time ago
- Find any data that was once placed into the clipboard
- Restore the clipboard contents (if they were accidentally overwritten)
- Convert any text to plain text (by stripping away its formatting)
- Save a lot of time and increase your productivity
Main Benefits
- Automatically saves every piece of data copied to the clipboard. Supports text, images, files, and other clipboard data.
- Lets you quickly retrieve any text from its database, so that you can either place it into the clipboard or paste it directly into any application.
- At your request, strips away any formatting from text, so that you can easily paste it as plain text.
- Lets you search through the clipboard history. Data stored in history can be reused many times.
- Clipboard history is available after computer reboot.
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Reviews for Clipdiary
This is the first copy & paste application I have ever used, I did not find the need to look for others.
Been using it for a few years. Thank you for this application.
I’ve used this program since 2016 and find it incredibly useful. I’ve only used one other clipboard manager, Ditto, but this one seems to have more functionality, features, and customization options. I highly recommend this program.
For me, the best of the best clipboard manager is Ars Clip, true freeware, from http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/97/
I have been using it for years and I have tried a lot of programs of this kind, including clipdiary.
the best clipboard utility
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我非常喜欢这个软件
The most excellent program that is probably necessary for everyone working on a computer!
Clipdiary is a fantastic tool. I use daily. Their resources are very useful and practical. The developer is always innovating and offering quality support.
Just downloaded Clipdiary, so the “4 Star” rating is a “Best Guess,” but a few initial thoughts:
1) Download & License activation worked without any apparent problems;
2) The HELP is on-line (as opposed to a local file), something which seems fairly standard these days;
3) An opening Setup Wizard runs at first startup; this “tutorial” can also be accessed from the HELP menu.
4) The developer provides an extensive list of Usage Tips / FAQs on their website – which is a Good Thing as Clipdiary is one of those programs that will demand Learning Time for the best experience. Basic operation seems simple enough, but there appears to be a lot of “hidden” power with a number of ‘Advanced” settings, “Snippets” vs Clipboard databases, and the ability to assign Labels (tags) to clips.
5) Both the “Clipboard History” and “Snippets” are kept in separate databases – under your “C” drive by default. The File / Database menu permits redirecting these to another location (like to keep my C drive as clean as possible) – but you must do this One At A Time. (Select Clipboard History, then File / Database / Clone & Switch… and repeat for Snippets).
Will have to live with Clipdiary for a while before deciding whether or not it earns a permanent spot: while it offers a lot of features, the learning curve may be steep enough that less-powerful options could prove attractive.
This is still the best clipboard utility I’ve ever used (although Clipmate was very good too).
I love this program, helps me a LOT programing. Easy to use and I cant live without this program anymore xD
Excellent clipboard replacement! I’ve been using it for >1 year and it has never failed me yet. The developer is very personable with any questions I’ve had.
This is an interesting framework for a good application. However, it needs a lot of brainstorming, refining and polishing to be up to the task. Usability is very much below par for a program which needs to be almost invisible, yet present. Many unneeded or secondary functions pollute the main interface. The smooth workflow which comes from copying and pasting is interrupted by this program, instead of being made easier. The author has not correctly mastered the interaction required from such a software, so that it stays natural.
The language used for commands, dialog boxes and help tips needs to be seriously overhauled. In many places, it is either obscure or misleading.
Privacy concerns have not been adressed. A program that is bound to collect highly confidential information, then dump it in a place rarely inspected afterwards (if ever), needs to have built-in protections. An option to delete the clipboard database upon exit (if not securely erasing it) is a bare minimum. Periodical cleaning should also be available. The present option conflates selectively pruning the database, deleting it and cleaning the code without deleting any data. The whole thing is impossible to understand.
In order to better convey my point, I would like to mention two pieces of software which have this quality that Clip Diary does not : Cinta Notes, and Outertech Clipboard History. The former is not a clipboard manager. But it has that huge quality of doing its job of note-taking while interfering as little as possible with the main task, which is NOT the one done by Cinta Notes. It’s very important to understand that.
The latter is my clipboard manager of choice, by default, because it does so little that it could as well be a DOS program. However, again, it simplifies the job to the extreme. Remember you need to be almost as simple as Ctrl C, Ctrl V. That’s no small feat.
Outertech Clipboard History lies as an icon on the system tray. You have your main application windows opoen above that. You are working in a target document which you a creating, writing, adding, editing, copying things into it from your other windows. Then, at some point, you need to copy something that you’ve already copied a while ago.
You go down to the Clipboard History icon in the system tray and you click it. That’s ONE click. Now a pop-up mini-window opens from Windows taskbar, with a list of the 10 last bits of text you’ve copied anywhere. So you push up your mouse until you reach the required element, and you click on it. That’s TWO clicks. And that’s all. Now the text you want to copy in your main document is already in your clipboard, and you can resume you normal workflow by applying, by instinct, Ctrl V or right-click and paste, the way you would have done if the required text had been in your clipboard from the beginning.
No menus, no options, and no hotkey combinations of 3 different keys, multiplied by 4 to cover the 4 main functions, multiplied by one hundred because I’ve probably one hundred programs installed on my computer, all competing to make me remember thousands of “hotkey” combinations, which are mysteriously supposed to be more convenient than the mouse which was invented decades ago, precisely in order to get rid of all that malarkey of “hotkey combinations”.
All right, there is an option box, not very good, but it’s out of the way. You don’t see it in normal operation. And yes, Outertech Clipboard History is sorely lacking. It can do very little. But programs aiming to do more must do it as easily. That’s the point.
Download those two programs to see what I mean.
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Thanks for heads up.
I have posted a question in the ‘Discuss This Offer’ forum
All the programs you’re describing still sound overly complicated compared to Ditto.
1) Anything that copies with Ctrl C is saved to a list in Ditto automatically in the background.
2) A hotkey combination (I use Ctrl Shift V) calls up the list.
2a) You can select the text you want to paste by scrolling and clicking the text you want to insert.
2b) The most recent copies can be selected by hitting a number button on the keyboard.
2c) The list is fully searchable. Start typing while the list is open and it will find matches.
3) Common paste text can be saved as “Sticky” at the top of the list.
4) You can delete selections or the entire list easily.
No extra buttons, mouse clicks, hoops to jump through.
Ditto is the absolute best clipboard manager. You should give it a try.
Outertech Clipboard History ( Pro or free ) seems TEXT only, yet SoftVoile Clipdiary ( paid or free ) handles IMAGES and TEXT, so they are different programs entirely, they do different things.
If all anyone wants is ONLY TEXT, then such comparison is helpful.
For me, the ability to review screen grabs, and images where I right-clicked and selected “copy image”, and so on, is critical, and SoftVoile ClipDiary saves those images for me in their database.
– I wish ClipDiary incorporated OCR to convert text-in-images to text, which I now do separately.
– I wish ClipDiary incorporated a readily accessible export of it’s database, perhaps to an efficient daily Zip file, that contains individual snippets by date and time, including TEXT and IMAGES as sequential snippets.
Note, free Google Picasa grabs print-screens, so that’s an alternative for some copy-and-paste images.
Otherwise … thanks for your exploration.
Awesome review thanks
Its is an excellent program iv used daily for the last few years. Incidently i got it free from the vendors website, so how or why its being advertised here is beyond me. Iv seen such things befor on here and after a week or 2 they usually try to update themselves and you end up with a useless program, so disable the update facility after installing, if you want to keep it.
What an excellent utility! I installed it when offered a few months ago and its history of former copy/cut has saved me a lot of time. I used to use Clipmate and Clipdiary meets all its features that I found useful. Also, the vendor has been most responsive to the questions I had in the beginning. He and this utility get an A+ in my book!
Clipdiary is a fantastic tool. I use daily. Their resources are very useful and practical. The developer is always innovating and offering quality support.
One of the greatest, well, and most annoying, weakness of the Windows clipboard is its inability to keep track of recent cuts and copies. The overwriting, though good on your RAM, tends to be quite the nuisance to regular copy-pasters. This combined with the weak copy features and flexibility has left a burning desire for a more reliable copy or cut application. This is the void Clipdiary seeks to fill. This is how it fared on when I put it through the paces.
At a glance
Clipdiary is meant to save everything you copy to the Windows OS clipboard and avail it to you via one neat user interface and a clever hotkey combination. The fact that it runs in the background without any considerable lag makes it an adept tool to frequent copy-pasters. Some people might however need to access the Help file every now and then before unravelling the true power Clipdiary.
Cons
Keep an accurate track of your clipboard
The most soothing thing about using Clipdiary is that the basic functionality works flawlessly. It will keep track of every picture, text and files you copy and will keep them ready for access until the time you need that you no longer need the files and you can purge them.
A highly interactive tutorial
Clipdiary’s one time tutorial will ensure that you fully understand the functionality before launching the app. You get to choose your own activation hotkeys before trying them out on a sample. This will always ensure that you know what you are doing whenever you launch the app.
Copying as plain text
This will be a handy tool to people who like copying formatted text from PDFs or websites. The copy or paste as text will strip content of all the formatting giving you the bare text that you can use whatever way you please.
A functional labeling and search feature
You can label all your clips to keep off confusion especially if you intent to hoard content for over 3 days. This is theoretically possible, but it isn’t practically sane as it will put your PCs resources under strain. You will also find the search feature quite effective when wading through tones of clips.
Has a portable version
Anything with a portable version is always welcome. Clipdiary’s portable version lets you walk around with your clipboard in a USB drive and use it on whatever PC you please.
Cons
The empty clipboard option doesn’t work
You should think twice before filling your Clipdiary with tones of clips. You might have to delete them one by one as the empty clipboard option doesn’t work – or at least it didn’t work for me.
Verdict
Clipdiary gets the job done. It is an impressive tool that is actually good at what it does. It’s only pitfall is it doesn’t give me a reliable way to purge unwanted clips fast. This could lead to vast accumulations that will bog down the memory.
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Every day I clean up one of the copies of Clipdiary.
I open Clipdiary and press F4. On the tab of database there is a option to clear the entire database.
There is also a option to clean up the database, all HTML-clips or pictures etc.
Also: select some clips and with Ctrl+Del these clips will be deleted.
I miss the option to go to another set of clips with the keyboard; now I have to use the mouse for that.
One can do CTRL-A, then delete to empty contents
Cons
Keep an accurate track of your clipboard
Cons
The empty clipboard option doesn’t work
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