macOS Tahoe 26 brought clipboard history to Spotlight, which is great. However, there’s much more that Apple can do, particularly with the help of Apple Intelligence and third-party models. Here’s how.
macOS absolutely needs its own Advanced Paste
If you’ve never heard about Microsoft PowerToys, this is a very interesting project that builds power-user features for Windows based on community input.
Despite its Windows 95 origins, the project in its current incarnation was relaunched on GitHub in 2019, and has been adding features ever since.
Here’s how Microsoft currently describes it:
Microsoft PowerToys is a set of free Microsoft Windows utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. These utilities and shell enhancement tools are designed to help you customize Windows 10 and Windows 11 to suit your needs.
One of these utilities is Advanced Paste, which was launched last year, allowing users to paste the clipboard either as plain text, JSON, or markdown.
Since then, the feature has evolved and picked up features, such as support for processing text with ChatGPT via an OpenAI API key.
Today, Advanced Paste was updated to allow users to run the clipboard through any local model, removing the need for a paid API. In addition to that, Microsoft also expanded third-party support, adding Gemini, Mistral, and even Azure alongside OpenAI.
This means that now, with very little work, Windows users can:
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