Deterministic clipboard items

Asutype's clipboards are deterministic by their keys. Once you have copied a piece of text into a clipboard, its content will be the text and will be there until you either empty it or overwrite it by a new content.

This deterministic nature of Asutype's multi-clipboard is greatly different from other ordinary "multi-clipboard" systems, where the clipboards are juts items in a list and the order of the items is shifted every time you copy a new text.

The deterministic design has some intentional advantages:

• It is faster to access each clipboard by its hotkey, especially when you do multiple copy and paste operations. For example, supposed that you want to copy a piece of text from an article, its author's name and the article's title into your notebook application, you can copy the excerpt into the clipboard E(xcerpt), the author's name into the clipboard A(uthor) and the title into the clipboard T(itle). After switching to your notebook application, you can just paste the excerpt out from the clipboard E, the author name from the clipboard A and the title from the clipboard T. It's quick, easy and natural.
• Asutype's macro system allows you to access a clipboard by its key. Having deterministic clipboard items, you can write an automation macro to access those clipboards explicitly. For example, the whole process in the above paragraph can be achieved by running the following macro:
  
  <activate:notebook>Content: <paste:#E> <ENTER>Author: <paste:#A>, Title: <paste:#T>