Keep track of your clippings

Copied is a clipboard manager with some clever extra features

Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of things: that great quote you read somewhere, a clever tip or trick, a recommendation, or information you need for work. With Copied (free,

copiedapp.com), you can capture all those things, find them again later, and use them in whatever app you fancy.

Copied takes and stores for later reference whatever you send to the Clipboard, drag from another app, capture with its Today widget or send via the iOS Share sheet. It can’t monitor in the background – iOS won’t let it – but you can solve that limitation by using it in Slide Over mode whenever you want to copy and save multiple items. It also has its own basic web browser, but we prefer the Slide Over and Safari combo.

In addition to text and website addresses, Copied can handle JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and GIF images, and you can choose whether to keep any formatting or just store plain text. The app also supports 3D Touch on iPhone.

As a Clipboard manager, Copied is very good at what it does, but the real power here is for people who like to tinker. You can use the supplied templates to reformat copied text (and if you’re familiar with JavaScript you can write your own). It’s not immediately obvious how to do that: you need to go into the app’s settings and tap Text Formatters. You can set what happens to three kinds of content: the title, the text, and the web address (URL).

In this tutorial, we’ll stick with the free version, which has a very big limitation: you can only store the 10 most recent clippings, which is a strange limit in an app that’s partially targeting power users. If you go for the paid-for Copied+ (a $2.99 in-app purchase), you can have 1,000 clippings in the main Copied list and unlimited clippings stored in specific lists, which you can color-code for easy identification. You also get iCloud syncing and the ability to create rules for saving specified text, images and links automatically.