A Review of the "Clips" Clipboard Manager App

About Clips

Clips is a new clipboard management app for the iPhone that allows you to easily "clip" bits of content from the internet and organizes those clips (along with links to source contents) within the app interface.

You can also share the clips via email, message, or social media, add them to the Apple Reading list, or add them to other productivity apps like Evernote.

Getting Started

After you download the app from the App Store, there are a few steps you need to take before you can begin clipping. First, access your Control Center by swiping down from the top of your iPhone home screen. Make sure "Today" is selected at the top of the screen, and scroll to the bottom to find the "Edit" button. Select "Edit" and add Clips.

Next you need to add the Clips keyboard. Go to the iPhone Settings app, then General > Keyboard > Keyboards, and you should see an option to add the Clips keyboard. Then you're ready to go!

Clipping Content

Once you have everything set up, simply find some content on the internet (text, image, or both) and select and copy it.

Once you have done that, open the clips app and you will see your content listed on the main screen with a link to the content. At first it will be highlighted in red with a blinking white dashed line around it. You will need to select the plus icon to save the clip.

Once you have saved the clip, you can select the right-arrow icon to see the entire clipping.

From there, you can copy or open the URL or select "more" for additional sharing options.

Conclusion

This app a quick and easy way to archive interesting content or save it for later use/reference. It could be especially helpful in quickly sharing key content from online articles with team members in school or professional settings. I am a big user of Evernote, and if I were compiling web sources for a project, I could clip key points from sources and send them to Evernote to access later, maybe even in a shared Evernote document that could be seen by other team members.

If you save or share a lot of web content, I highly recommend giving this new clipboard manager a try!