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I had primarily decided to try Flashpaste only because

-- Whatever I copied to Clipdiary remained for ever in its database. I wanted to delete some items of clipboard history so that I can retain what I needed and dump what I had used temporarily and do not need anymore.

- Whatever I copied to Clipdiary remained there in the order it went in. I also wanted to pull some older items further down to the list of clipboard history so that it is available in the current one or two windows, accessible by scrolling.

- If I had made some mistake in copying to Clipdiary, I wanted to be able to edit the clipboard entry in Clipdiary itself.

- I also wanted a Unicode compatible text file import to Clipdiary so that I can create a file in some editor and merge that into Clipdiary database so that I can use it.

- I also wanted Clipdiary to export its content to a unicode compatible text file that I can save and edit, and most import, upload when I am doing some particular type of work.


I found that none of the above options is available in Flashpaste. Thus, flashpaste does not offer me any good option over Clipdiary. I am uninstalling the 1 month's demo version of flashpaste as whatever it is doing Clipdiary is doing all for free.

Hope you would give the above a thought and if you feel the above are genuine requirements and would enhance the functionality of flashpaste, you would consider adding them in future versions.

But, yeah, flashpaste is unicode compatible and shows my hindi text in hindi whereas clipdiary shows them as ??? thought retains the unicode format.

Hello,

Flashpaste is not an improvement over Clipdiary. Flashpaste is absolutely different software intended for different tasks. Flashpaste is repositary of boilerplate texts for instant pasting.

p.s. Clipdiary was written after Flashpaste

My observation of first day tells me that Flashpaste is a combination of flashnote and clipdiary, but features are almost same, a combination of what is individually available in those two.

Would like to know what Flashpaste does for clipboard monitoring that clipdiary doesn't do.

Though all your software are small in size and very simple to use, yet they leave more to be desired in terms of keyboard shortcuts and context menus. Most of the experienced pc users are wary of using mouse and find keyboard quicker. For you, it would the smallest thing to provide keyboard shortcuts and context menu for most of the items that you have already coded and put in Menu.

I would like to hear from you if any of the points I had mentioned is present in flashpaste that I might have missed. If I had missed some features, I would sure like to use them.

strange:)


Nothing (except unicode support). Flashpaste intended for other tasks, clipboard history is subordinate feature for Flashpaste


Flashpaste serves for quick paste text in any aplication, not for clipboard monitoring or quik notes as Flashnote. You can find more as I use Flashpaste in my article Quickly paste text by one hand

Hmm. Let me see.

Oh, of course you are right. Flashnote is just not for inserting texts to a document, and we can not directly input texts in clipdiary. The text in clipdiary can only come from clipboard, whereas we can directly enter a new text in flashpaste so that it can then get pasted to documents.

Hmm. Now I understand the difference. Thanks for taking time to explain.

Last question:

As you say, that the above three software are for different purposes, does it mean that even after one buys and uses Flashpaste, he must have to keep and use both flashnote and clipdiary also as you said those are for different purposes?

If you need it - yes. I actively use all three this utility.

I store a lot of notes in Flashnote: project notes, bugs, todo list, link that I should check and other information.

I use Flashpaste as repositary all texts that I often should to write: some code snippets, URL's for all my projects, there is a big folder for answer to letters with questions about my software etc. etc.

Clipdiary gives me feature of multy-clipboard. I can easy paste some information copied to clipboard 5 minutes ago.

So, I don't see how I can use only one utility for all this tasks.