¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

Previously.

Sometimes it’s useful to have certain code snippets be easily accessible from the clipboard manager.

As I use Maccy, I figured I should leverage its built-in pinning feature to do so.

It’s not intuitive how to do it:

• first, focus an existing clipboard entry
• then press OPTION (⌥) + P (“p” for “pinning”)

The item will be moved to the top with a random but permanent keyboard shortcut. To unpin it, press OPTION (⌥) + P again.

Pros:

• no need to keep a text editor (or notes app) opened with temporary clipboard contents to keep copying from (=less overhead)
• no need to keep digging the clipboard manager history to find the same entry over and over again

This workflow is decent for temporary entries. For semi-permanent ones, I should look into Espanso at some point. For now, Raycast Snippets fills in this role.