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You probably use a computer to write instead of freehanding or typewriting, because computers have all sorts of tools for saving, formatting, spell-checking, and copying and pasting. But when you think about it, the default copy-and-paste functionality of a computer is extremely basic. Out of the box, Macs and PCs only remember the very last thing you copied. The thing you copied before that? Gone. This makes no sense, since computers have enough memory for billions of lines of text. Thankfully there are a number of free applications out there to “buffer” your clipboard, placing everything you’ve copied — as well as commonly-used snippets of text — at your fingertips. Once I started using such an application, I forgot how I wrote without it. More »