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Various individual applications assist with these difficulties. But there are also situations where this strategy fails, and you’ve probably found yourself resigned to going back and forth, back and forth between two applications, copying and pasting, copying and pasting. For example, knowing that you need to move three sentences from various places within a paragraph, you copy and paste the whole paragraph and pare down the pasted results afterwards. You’re probably so accustomed to inconvenient ways of coping with this necessity that you don’t even think of them as workarounds. Nevertheless, I bet you’ve made that mistake on occasion, each time cursing at the loss of the previously copied data.Īnother frequent situation is that you have more than one thing to move from one place to another, either within the same application or between applications. You are unconsciously careful, after copying (or even more critical, after cutting, which makes the data live in the clipboard and nowhere else) not to hit Command-C again until you’ve pasted the current clipboard to retain it. This fact is probably by now so deeply internalized that you no longer realize how much it dictates your working habits. At that time, you also had to internalize the fact that any time you copy, you wipe off the clipboard whatever you copied previously. Can you remember back to when you started using a Mac and were introduced to the notions of copying and pasting, and the invisible but omnipresent "clipboard"? Probably you understood right away, thought to yourself, "good idea," and just moved on. We all copy and paste without thinking about it.