Paste like a champion on Mac OS X

With three quick steps you can drastically improve your copy/paste efficiency on Mac OS X.

  • Add a keyboard shortcut for “Paste and Match Style”. This is key if you copy content from the web because it enables pasting as plain text. I hate pasting into a document only to get a jumble of different styles that have to be normalized later. (My shortcut for this is use open-apple + shift + V.)
  • Install jumpcut, which keeps track of all the latest things you’ve copied. That way, you can copy five things sequentially in one document and paste them into another without having to cycle back-and-forth. (I access jumpcut via control
  • shift + V.)
  • Install textexpander in order to quickly “paste” snippets of text you commonly write. This is great for canned email responses, pieces of code, or your contact information.