# Access Clipboard History with Alfred

> Markdown version of https://brajeshwar.com/2014/access-clipboard-history-alfred-mac-os-x/ — 2014-02-07

Quite often, one of the suggestions for developers and designers is to have a tool or a utility to access your Clipboard History. There are indeed quite a free few good tools which sits in your menubar that does the job very well. Some of the most recommended free ones are [Jumpcut](http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/), and [ClipMenu](http://www.clipmenu.com/).

However, if you’re one of those [Alfred](http://www.alfredapp.com/) user who bought the [Powerpack](https://buy.alfredapp.com/) (you should buy it, it’s magic), it comes with a nifty Clipboard History Manager. One less menubar app to worry about.

![Alfred Clipboard History)](/static/2014/alfred-clipboard-history.png)

Before you can start using the Clipboard History feature, you need to enable it by going to the Preferences panel, under "Features > Clipboard". By default the Clipboard is disabled for privacy reasons.

![Alfred Clipboard History Snippets)](/static/2014/alfred-clipboard-history-list.png)

Choose your choice of Clipboard history from 24 hours to 3 months. You can also set your desired Key Shortcut and Keyword. Remember to set it to ignore Password Manager apps - 1Password, Keychain Access, etc.

I prefer just typing `clip` in Alfred to fire the clipboard history.