Productivity · Windows
CuePaste
A sequential clipboard queue. Copy five things in order, paste them back one at a time, in that order.
Live on Microsoft Store
The problem
Moving several pieces of information between two windows means alt-tabbing once per item: copy, switch, paste, switch back, copy the next. Filling a form from a document, or moving fields between two systems, turns into dozens of pointless context switches.
Clipboard history managers exist, but they solve a different problem — they let you hunt back through what you copied. Nobody wants to hunt. You already know the order.
What I built
- A queue, not a history. Copy several items and they line up. Each paste takes the next one. The order you copied is the order you get back.
- Stays out of the way. It is a small utility that sits behind the keyboard shortcuts you already use, rather than an app you open.
The part that was actually hard
Microsoft Store certification is a different discipline from Google Play — MSIX packaging, identity, capability declarations, and a certification pass that fails on details a web developer never encounters.
Clipboard interception has to be careful. It sits in the path of everything a user copies, including passwords, so the correct behaviour is to hold as little as possible for as short a time as possible.
Where it is now
Live on the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 and 11.