Copy and paste workflow tip

[justice]

If you copy and paste a lot of information this workflow might be useful for you. It makes my work a lot easier.

You will need:

• A clipboard monitoring program, like Arsclip or Mouser's Clipboard Help+Spell
• A mouse with 2 side buttons, such as Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000

Using your mouse software, set the first side button to Copy (ctrl-c) and the second button to Paste (ctrl-v). Now set the hotkey of your clipboard monitoring program's popup to ctrl-alt-v. You already use the mouse to select text to be copied so this saves you a lot of time. As a result you can copy and paste text between windows quickly using just the mouse. You can also quickly copy multiple items in succession and use ALT + side button 2 to bring up the list of copied items with minimum effort.

An improvement to this solution would be if you could use a quick press to paste and a long press to invoke the clipboard program, and not needing the keyboard. However MS intellitype invokes ctrl-v on RELEASE and not on press, so I cannot built an autohotkey script to check how long the key is pressed down.

Hope you'll find this useful.

BTW, i'm happy to turn this into a general workflow tips - there's always many articles on individual pieces (hotkeys, programs) but not enough on a nice solution that consist of a total workflow.

[f0dder]

Interesting idea - I almost always use the keyboard when copy/pasting, though
(This isn't as bad as it sounds - decent editors support Ctrl+arrowkeys for moving quickly between words, and I usually only need Shift+Home or Shift+End anyway).