Developers of Unite, an app that offers customized web app management on Mac, on Monday released a new app called Quip, a clipboard app for the Apple ecosystem. The app includes features for organizing text clips, support for shortcuts to trigger text snippets, duplicate prevention, and code formatting, among other things.
Its goal is to offer users more control and customization compared with the traditional clipboard, making it a more productive alternative.
Quip is non-intrusive — on Mac, it lives on the menu bar and, on iOS, it has a special keyboard — and maintains a history of all things that you copy across devices as a universal clipboard. You can easily search through the history and also customize the timeframe to keep items stored, along with max items and maximum item size. You can filter through these items by text, links, images, code, files, and recency.
Quip allows you to add clipboard items to collections to easily access them later. Plus, you can make smart collections to automatically add certain clipboard items to those collections.
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As the app accesses all kinds of data, the company has built customizable privacy controls.
By default, the app ignores data such as passwords, credit cards, and personally identifiable data for its clip history. It will also ignore temporary data, including cache, auto-generated data, and debug information. You can customize this further and instruct the app to ignore certain apps and keywords for the clipboard.
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One of the useful features of the app is the “supershortcut,” which allows you to define short phrases for text expansion. For instance, you can write your address in a “supershortcut” and use the trigger keyword “addr” to paste details anywhere. This works for links and code, too.
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