My one wish for Pastebot is for Tapbots to bring it back to iOS. In the aggregate, it has saved me a lot of time because I’m not jumping back and forth between apps nearly as much. Pastebot lets me copy each block of text and each image sequentially before I open Safari to paste each block into MailChimp.
If an article has multiple images, that means a lot of back and forth between a text editor and the browser to put the story together. The Club MacStories newsletter is sent to members every week using MailChimp, which has a web-based templating system that is easy to use, but breaks content into chunks such as text blocks and image blocks. Sequential Paste is great for tasks like the assembly of MacStories Weekly. If you don’t like the shortcuts Tapbots has chosen, most are also customizable too.īuilding MacStories Weekly with the Sequential Paste. Pastebot is also fast to use because there are keyboard shortcuts for every major action. Pastebot comes with over a dozen built-in filters, but you can create your own with a system that is similar to creating a smart playlist in iTunes. With filters you can perform transformations on your clippings such as converting rich text to plain text, making a text clip all uppercase, or encoding a URL. Think of filters as the kind you apply to modify photos, not sort email. That means you can create searches to do things like find just those clips copied from your email client and images by dimensions. That same metadata is key to Pastebot’s search functionality that can find clips by metadata as well as by strings of text within a clipping. For instance, a clip of an image includes a preview of the image file, but also lists its dimensions, size, date copied, and the app from which it was copied. My favorite view is the multi-line view that includes a preview of each clipping and its metadata.
The main Pastebot window expanded (left) and compact (right).
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