So earlier today, I got an email. This happens sometimes. In it was a tracking number of a parcel. Unusually, there was no email link and I was forced to copy&paste the number into the appropriate box on the appropriate website.

Move to later in the day, and I want to see if my parcel has left Atlanta. Now, is the tracking number still on my clipboard from earlier? or did I copy and paste something different in the intervening period? Can't remember. So... If there was a key command that showed me what was on the clipboard in a nice preview way, I could check, and avoid all the tedious re-opening of emails and all the drudgery that this involves.

That's it. Just a way of quickly looking at the contents of the clipboard, text, picture, whatever.
-- bs0u0155, Dec 07 2013

Please tell me. For windows especially.
-- bs0u0155, Dec 08 2013


OSX has a "show clipboard" function, though this isn't implemented within most programs.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 08 2013


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"Ditto" is pretty good. Thank you. It's not quite as glossy and transparent and integrated into Windows as I'd like. MS should get on this.

However, this idea is 100% baked, so I'll delete.
-- bs0u0155, Dec 09 2013


agh! I like Fences, but for an unknown reason it doesn't play nicely with some custom software I have to use. Shame.
-- bs0u0155, Dec 09 2013



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