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@colinwalker If you need flexibility across macOS and iOS, then Copied is a great answer.

If your power-lifting is going to be Mac-centric, then suggest you give Alfred with the PowerPack a try. Clipboard history built in, and many other features make it brilliant.

@desparoz Cross-platform is definitely a requirement which is why I was looking at copied again.

@colinwalker Copied is my first choice for that, but also supplement what th Gladys for additional shelf functionality.

@desparoz I almost never use the iPad so don’t really need something like that. Great idea though.

@colinwalker I bought Copied long ago, and forgot until David Sparks mentioned it in a MPU episode in the perfect moment: I just started to work more with my new MacBook, and all of a sudden I use it almost every day :)

@colinwalker I recently switched from Copied to Paste on the Mac, because Paste finally came out with an iOS beta and I wanted cross-platform support. Paste doesn’t have the power features that Copied does, but I love the interface and it clicked with me in a way Copied didn’t.

@40Tech Thanks, I’ll check it out.

My desire to finally make friends with the iPad and get some serious writing done has coincided with the release of Paste 2 for iOS. It was suggested as a Copied alternative by Evan a couple of weeks ago. It's a free (on iOS,) clean and simple clipboard app with iCloud sync and the Mac version appears to be highly recommended, but it still frustrates me that, on the iPhone, you have to use a sharing extension, open the app or activate its widget for it to receive copied items. Maybe the experience is better on an iPad where you can use split screen or have it as a "slide-over" app. I still wish you could grant iOS more system level permissions (like you can on MacOS) so that this type of app could actually monitor the clipboard properly.