Master Pastebot in minutes

1 Copy and paste In Safari, go to twitter.com/macformat. ç- click the logo and select Copy Image. Then select and copy the biography using ç+C. In a new TextEdit document, use ç+V. Your copied text will be pasted. But the image?

4 Stash favourites

Go to Window > Main Window. Click ‘+’ and choose New Pasteboard. Name your pasteboard. Drag clippings to it from the Clipboard list, clipboard viewer, or by copying and pasting into the pasteboard in the usual manner.

7 Create a filter

Copy MacFormat’s Twitter URL from Safari. In Pastebot’s main window, click General under Filters, then the blue ‘+’ to create a new filter. Click Preview to open the preview window. Call your filter ‘Lazy URL email’.

2 Use clipboard history

Press ç+ß+V to open the clipboard viewer, which shows your recently copied items. Assuming you’ve not copied anything new, the image will be listed second. Press 2 on your keyboard to paste it into your document.

5 Find a quirk

Back in step 1, formatting came along for the ride when you pasted the text – and this can happen when copying from word processing software such as Word as well. Pastebot can filter out everything but text.

8 Add filter properties

Turn off Apply to Each line. From the menu, select Quote Text. In Before Content, type an intro, and in After Content a sign-off. Use carriage returns to adjust formatting, guided by the preview. Save your filter.

3 Search history

Pastebot can hold up to 1,000 ‘current’ clippings. Open the clipboard viewer and start typing – your list will filter to show matching items. Navigate them with the arrow keys and hit ® to paste what’s selected. 6 Zap with a filter Instead of immediately pasting, bring up the clipboard viewer, press ç+® to open the filter window, and select Convert to Plain Text. On hitting ® again, only plain text will be pasted into your document.

9 Use your filter

In a new Mail message, follow the process from step 6 to use your filter on a copied URL. If you use the filter often, give it a shortcut (see Genius Tip). Explore Pastebot’s other filters for further possibilities.