Unclutter for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By skoskie

  Jack of 3 trades. Master of none.

  Overall, this seems to be a good app. Here are the things I’ve found that need to be addressed: 1. Clipboard history size is too small. Other CB managers allow for thousands of items (which is what I use). Alfred sets limits based on time - 3 months for example. Until this is resolved, I can’t use the clipboard feature at all. 2. As others have said, the clipboard needs to have an option to paste on click. 3. It would be nice if notes could integrate with the actual notes app rather than saving text documents. 4. Basic markdown support would be nice as well. 5. There’s a bug in the “or just press” field in preferences. Clearing the field does not clear the value. It can only be replaced by something else. This is a minor issue and easily ignored, but worth mentioning. 6. As others have mentioned, the option to actually move a file vs save a reference to a file should be an option. Yoink seems to handle this better, so I’ll keep using that for now as well. 7. Likewise, files dragged as a group should remain grouped so they can easily be dragged out. Again, Yoink and Dropzone seem to get this right. So overall, while this is a good app, none of it’s three tools are better than the tools I already use for each purpose. That said, I’ll keep an eye on future development as I’m sure the app will continue to improve.

  
  
• By Muay Thai Warrior

  Almost Perfect

  This is a highly useful tool, which I am pleased to have purchased. However, there are a few items I wish had been included: 1. The ability to change the font (size, color, style) of your notes. Perhaps support for RTF would do the trick. 2. Included an option separate panel as a scratchpad. That could be a replacement for the stock Stickies app and would be highly useful for jotting down content that doesn’t merit saving as a file/note. For my particular use-case, the ideal layout would be: Clipboard | Scratchpad | Notes. 3. The option of setting line preview preferences for Notes, something as simple as 1-3 line preview as found in most email clients. Teh addition of this feature would allow either more Notes to be displayed and/or give the user a better understanding of the Note’s contents. And finally, I have noticed one minor issue. At times, the app disallows the ability to delete a note. I haven’t yet figured out what triggers this, however, the simple workaround is to manually delete the unwanted Note(s) from within the Finder window. However, this is a drawback from the convenience as you need to navigate to the directory and select the correct file(s).

  
  
• By Endnoter

  This app could be better.

  I like all of the (three) things that this little app does. However, while viewing your clipboard history, and even identifying which clips are the most important, doesn’t mean that you can REUSE those clips. All I’ve been able to do is look at them. Why can’t I click on an item in the clipboard history and either copy it, or else have it be pasted into a document I’m working on? Also, if, as other reviewers said, this app actually MOVES your files and folders to somewhere deep inside of the operating system, then how do you get them back? And, if you are using Dropbox or some other service to save your files online, then it seems as though the files on Dropbox won’t be the same as the ones you are working on (but you won’t know it).

  
  
• By 3L Law Student

  Excellent App Now Looks Even Better

  *UPDATE: I can’t use any Windows without this app. Just can’t. Original Review: I use this app every day, especially the clipboard and notes sections. This app is just genius. The update added a lot of new functions, like editing within the clipboard, creating multiple notes, and searching notes. Functionality went from great to awesome. The new streamlined look and fonts are great. It fits with Yosemite now, and it even looks great with the dark ribbon (my preference). Fantastic update.

  
  
• By WTF_Actual

  HOLY MOLY

  I’ve had unclutter for a while now and I just now realized how much I use it. Literally every single day i used my Windows. I either drag my desktop files into the universal folder or make new documents in the notepad. It is also VERY useful to see my clipboard history — which is saves everything copied, pictures, links, everything. I’m here writing this because I realized that I’ve been using it so much that I almost forgot it isn’t a built in app and thought that, of all the other apps and stuff that I HAVE reviewed, this one was most deserving of one. Here’s to Unclutter, the app that works so well you forget it’s running and just blend it into your workflow.

  
  

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