Pasteon
18 ago 2026

How to Collect Copied Text From Multiple Mac Apps

Gather copied text, links, JSON, and references from several Mac apps into one temporary collection, reorder the items, and use the batch together.

Research rarely stays in one window. You might copy a quotation from a browser, a note from a document, a URL from a message, and a JSON example from a code editor. Ordinary clipboard history records those items, but a temporary collection makes the purpose and order explicit while you work.

Pasteon Collect Mode gathers supported copied content into one temporary workspace.

Build a temporary collection

  1. Start Collect Mode in Pasteon.
  2. Continue copying text, links, JSON, Markdown, HTML, colors, dates, or other supported text-based content from your Mac apps.
  3. Open the collection review when you finish.
  4. Reorder or remove items before using the result.

Choose how to use the batch

  • Merge Paste combines the collected items and pastes the result.
  • Copy All puts the combined result on the clipboard.
  • Paste Queue keeps the items separate and pastes them one by one.

This works well for research notes, contact details, source links, content briefs, QA data, and developer context collected across several apps.

Collect Mode is intentionally temporary. Searchable clipboard history remains the place to recover earlier copied content; the collection is the focused workspace for the batch you are assembling now.

See how Collect Mode for Mac works.