TOOLS: ARS Clip cliboard manager (productivity tools)

ARS clip is THE free, open source (mainly windows-based) clipboard manager: http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/97/

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ArsClip is a freeware "clipboard manager" utility. ArsClip monitors the clipboard and keeps track of the entries. Pasting is done by using a triggered popup window. This window can be triggered by a hotkey, holding right-click, a special trigger window, and other methods.

ArsClip used to be barebones, but I think I can safely say that it has become a nicely featured and highly configurable program, due to user feedback. The program now specializes in copy-and-paste automation tasks.

Delphi XE2 source code included

Features

- Permanent Clips/Macros for copying and pasting automation 

- Picture, RichText, File Copy, Unicode, HTML support

- Highly configurable

- Win7 Jumplist support

- Optional Clipboard Bar -- clipboard viewer

- Optional Global Clipboard to shares clips with other Windows and Android devices 

Requirements

This program requires no installation, but an optional setup program is included. Supported on Windows XP through Windows 10.

Interesting features include:
- Shortcut to recent items as a context menu (Ctrl+Shift+Z)
- Permanent items
- Persistence between restarts
- Stripped down format paste (Ctrl+Shift+V)
- The global shared clipboard (not yet tested by me)

Cons:
- Some minor issues: Slight instability (Windows 8), initial error setting global keyboard hook and some minor problems with OneNote (copied values are always pasted as image in certain apps).

PS. Also from the same supplier, make sure to check a very interesting tool for automating file-based tasks. If you like it, think about making a donation.

TBC: How does is stack against Ditto?