Append or prepend selected text to your clipboard with different separators

[bigplayer-ai]

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Problem

Append or prepend selected text to your clipboard with different separators

Solution

Append Clipboard Append or prepend selected text to your clipboard with different separators

[p0deje]

i think that's similar to #239, please provide more details if it is not.

[bigplayer-ai]

i think that's similar to #239, please provide more details if it is not.

That’s not correct. You can use keyboard shortcuts like Command + Alt + C to append items to the clipboard with a space separator (can be changed via settings). For instance, if you copy “Google” using Command + C, and then copy “Safari” using Command + Alt + C, your clipboard will contain “Google Safari”.

[p0deje]

That’s not correct. You can use keyboard shortcuts like Command + Alt + C to append items to the clipboard with a space separator (can be changed via settings). For instance, if you copy “Google” using Command + C, and then copy “Safari” using Command + Alt + C, your clipboard will contain “Google Safari”.

So you want Maccy to implement this feature? What's the use case, why would you want such a feature?

[bigplayer-ai]

That’s not correct. You can use keyboard shortcuts like Command + Alt + C to append items to the clipboard with a space separator (can be changed via settings). For instance, if you copy “Google” using Command + C, and then copy “Safari” using Command + Alt + C, your clipboard will contain “Google Safari”.

So you want Maccy to implement this feature? What's the use case, why would you want such a feature?

Implementing this feature in Maccy would greatly improve workflows by allowing users to quickly and efficiently combine multiple pieces of information.

The current solution using macOS shortcuts is cumbersome and inefficient, especially when copying more than 10 items, such as an address. This new feature would eliminate the need for manual concatenation, saving users time and boosting productivity.

User requests, like issue #239, highlight the limitations of existing methods and the high demand for this functionality. By enabling seamless aggregation/concatenations of clipboard items, Maccy would provide a superior user experience, streamlining tasks like research, writing, and coding.

This feature is highly requested and would significantly improve workflows and productivity by addressing the shortcomings of the current method. Issue #239 reflects a similar need for better clipboard management.

So it is more like batch copying in one clipboard item instead of sequential pasting, this way it would be more organized clipboard manager with additional flexibility.

There is a raycast extension that does that: "https://www.raycast.com/koinzhang/append-clipboard", but I don't use raycast.

[p0deje]

Have you generated most of the text using AI? 😄

I understand what you request, I'm interested in learning the exact use case you would use this feature for. Please, elaborate on that, because I would not want to implement a feature that is based on an abstract need.

[bigplayer-ai]

Have you generated most of the text using AI? 😄

I understand what you request, I'm interested in learning the exact use case you would use this feature for. Please, elaborate on that, because I would not want to implement a feature that is based on an abstract need.

I need to copy scattered items on a page with a specific delimiter.

For example, when copying a client's address, I want to select the street address, name, city, and zip code in my desired order, all separated by a comma in one Clipboard item to optimize and make my clipboard cleaner and more organized (as I will use only this concatenated text.).

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This feature would also be useful for coding tasks, such as:

• Copying multiple strings from the internet into a CSV file
• Gathering scattered words from Wikipedia or Google

Additionally, it would help when formulating specific terms for my research from multiple pieces on a page.