How to copy multiple items from multiple places and paste it at multiple places - Clipboard history | Ditto

If you work on computers regularly, you must be aware of the pain of copy and pasting same thing again and again during during work. What if we can copy an item once and paste it multiple times without ever need to copy again and at the same time we copy hundreds of items and keep pasting.

There is a small unpopular tool available for windows named Ditto-CP. Ditto will keep your Clipboard history and let you repaste previously copied items again and again. Your copy paste will work the same way. Just that if you want to access your history you will have to launch Ditto using a shortcut, which you can define.

How to install

To download Ditto-cp go to - https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io 

1. Download the executable.

2. Install the executable.

How to configure

1. After installation launch the application if it's not launched automatically. 

2. Open the configuration screen(if not opened automatically on first launch go to system tray and open options by right clicking on Ditto icon.). Navigate to shortcuts tab.

3. Set the hot key combination to activate ditto. My personal favourite is ctrl+~(key just above the tab). You can select 3 activation shortcuts.

How to use

1. Copying is same as you are already doing. 

2. Pasting is changed, if you want to paste something you just copied use simple Ctrl+v but if you want to access your Clipboard history hit your hotkey combination (Ctrl+~ in my case) once your Clipboard history is opened you can find your desired paste let's say it's at 4th position. To paste the 4th item simple hit Ctrl+, when Ditto history screen is open.

3. If you can't find your paste in top 10 you can start searching. To search start typing directly on clipboard history screen, it will start showing matching words. Once you see your paste navigate to that item by up and down arrows and hit enter.

Issues

Sometimes paste don't work due to some applications not accepting standard way. In that case whenever you paste an item, Ditto will send the paste to application but it won't show it as it was not configured to accept pastes. So in that case once you selected your paste which didn't work it will bring that paste on top of the pastes stack so now you can paste it with Ctrl+V.