The weight of the clipboard
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The weight of the clipboard
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Re: The weight of the clipboard
#2Insightful.
I would say it's the Zeigarnik effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeigarnik_effect
I find Clipboard managers remove this. Since putting it into the queue is a whole task.
Re: The weight of the clipboard
#3I mostly freed myself from that weight with a clipboard manager. LaunchBar[0] on macOS and CopyQ[1] everywhere else. It’s nice to know I can Cut1/Cut2/Cut3, then Paste2/Paste1/Paste3 to my heart’s content with no worries of overwriting the contents of the clipboard forever.
It’s one capability I sometimes miss on my i(Pad)OS devices.
[0] https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html [1] https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/
Re: The weight of the clipboard
#4I've overwritten my clipboard multiple times by accident, so I think that weight is the fear of losing what I copied. To be honest, the clipboard bears the weight of so much productivity, even though by default, its functionality is pretty limited. It's the poor man's IPC, after all.
Re: The weight of the clipboard
#5Unify your vim clipboard with the system clipboard, they said. The integration is wonderful, they said.
Well:
1/ copy URL from browser
2/ alt tab to vim notes
3/ delete old URL from notes
4/ paste new URL but get the old URL instead?!
How do I do the FORTH equivalent of swapping the two items on the top of the stack (and have a stack in the first place)? :)
Re: The weight of the clipboard
#6I mostly freed myself from that weight with a clipboard manager. LaunchBar[0] on macOS and CopyQ[1] everywhere else. It’s nice to know I can Cut1/Cut2/Cut3, then Paste2/Paste1/Paste3 to my heart’s content with no worries of overwriting the contents of the clipboard forever. It’s one capability I sometimes miss on my i(Pad)OS devices. [0] https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html [1] https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/
And just a FYI for Windows 10 users, during some update they recently added Win+V to show the system's built-in clipboard manager.
Re: The weight of the clipboard
#7The ux on this small clipboard is terrible.
Re: The weight of the clipboard
#8With a kill ring you can ignore this weight. Problem?
Re: The weight of the clipboard
#9I've overwritten my clipboard multiple times by accident, so I think that weight is the fear of losing what I copied. To be honest, the clipboard bears the weight of so much productivity, even though by default, its functionality is pretty limited. It's the poor man's IPC, after all.
"Responsibility" comes to (my) mind.
Re: The weight of the clipboard
#10Insightful. I would say it's the Zeigarnik effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeigarnik_effect I find Clipboard managers remove this. Since putting it into the queue is a whole task.
The Ovsiankina Effect mentioned in the article you linked seems more like it.