Corkboard!

I've been looking for a utility that would save everything copied into clipboard instead of constantly overwriting the last item copied or cut. I played with iClip a few years ago and didn't think it was worth the money, but tried it again and again decided it's not wort the money ($29).

Then I found Corkboard, a little $12.99 app that, like iClip, saves clipboard items in a maybe-overly-cute list:


It further allows you to pull items out of the list and stick them on a board that looks like cork if cork were translucent. The board is superimposed over the screen like Dashboard. Double clicking an item stuck to the board sets it as the first item in the clipboard (i.e. the item paste would insert).


I'm not explaining it very well but if you care you should download the demo. For me, the crux is I can command-c URLs and images that I may want to a blog about, then before writing the post, pull anything I want to use onto the board and paste it in as I need it.

The app has some rough spots. The clipboard works fine for images, but text is hard to read. And getting to the board, double clicking an item, getting back to an editor, and pasting is too many steps. Having items available on the normal display, instead of the Dashboardy overlay, would help a lot.

The demo doesn't enable the clipboard history feature, which hides an important piece of functionality, and app only runs on leopard 10.5.5 or later.