Is the end of the one shot clipboard
inevitable?

Twenty some years of developments have extended the horizons of the PC users from the narrow focus of the one task at a time limitation imposed by the underpowered hardware, single tasking operating systems, and uncooperative applications. Today's hardware and software power the advanced users to do many tasks simultaneously. Early user interface design studies determined that,

when transferring information from one area to another, computer users would not be able to effectively organize more than one item at a time.

Thus, the one shot limitation of the operating system clipboard was conceived. Today's inventive PC users are as much advanced over the early design study users as is today's hardware and software advanced over that of twenty years past. While operating system clipboards are mired in the studies of the past, the tools to purge the one shot limitation are growing in number and power.

The one shot clipboard

The purpose of the clipboard has been to transfer information from one point of existence to another. The process is to select (identifiably marking the information), to make a "copy" of the information, to select a new location to store that information, and to paste that information into that location. An operation which is taught early in the training of nearly every computer user and a procedure which nearly every computer user repeatedly performs:
Mark, copy, move, paste; move, mark, copy, move, paste; move, mark, copy, move, paste; a trillion times.

Consecutive paste

Animated demonstrations of one shot (85K) and consecutive paste (73K) methods

Three Windows clipboard utilities provide for consecutive paste operations. Not only do these clipboard utilities store multiple items, these utilities allows multiple items to be selected and the paste operation repeated without the usual intervening window switching. Instead of the usual
mark, copy, switch, paste; switch, mark, copy, switch, paste; switch, etc.
the consecutive clipboard allows
mark, copy, mark, copy, mark, copy, switch, paste, paste, paste

The consecutive paste operation places a heavy burden upon the switch addicted computer user. Decades of the one shot clipboard has produced a generation of addicted window switchers. With help in switchers anonymous and other like minded treatment centers and with the growing power of clipboard utilities, real cures are at hand.
The user must stop the denial and get the needed help.

The tools to end the one shot clipboard

Microsoft Windows

Text only clipboard utilities for Windows 95/NT in graphics (84K) or table (preferred) style Features Table
or for Windows 3.1x in graphics (106K) or table (preferred) style Features Table.

Graphics clipboard utilities in graphics (106K) or table (preferred) style Features Table.

Consecutive paste graphics clipboard utilities in graphics (70K) or table (preferred) style Features Table.
How Clipmate, Cliphance, and Clipmaster implement consecutive paste operations.