The Basics

Batch Clipboard is a menu that lives in on the right side of the menubar, its icon is a little clipboard with an asterisk on it: 
More about menubar icon here: Menu Icon States

The app’s core feature is to let you copy multiple items from one document, then switch to another document and paste those items in the order you copied them.

It’s simple to use, here’s how:

1. In your source document copy using the special Batch Clipboard shortcut CONTROL (^) + COMMAND (⌘) + C.
   
   The menu bar icon will highlight and get a number 1 added beside it.

2. Repeat.
   
   The number in the menu bar icon will increment with each item copied. You can copy items from any document in any app, they don’t have to be from the same place.

3. In your target document paste using the special Batch Clipboard shortcut CONTROL (^) + COMMAND (⌘) + V.
   
   The first thing you copied will be the first thing pasted. The clipboard will automatically advance to the next one and the number in the menu bar icon will decrement.

4. Repeat.
   
   When all copied items have been pasted the menu bar icon will return to normal, copying and pasting will return to the normal behavior.

So: copy, copy, paste, paste (while also holding down the CONTROL (^) key).

The only other important detail is that the app needs permission to control your computer, to monitor the clipboard and instruct the frontmost application to copy or paste. When running the application for the first time an Intro window will guide you through this process. This Intro will open whenever permission isn’t setup when the app launches, and can also be re-opened anytime from the about box.

That’s all you really need to know. Feel free to install it and dive right in rather than reading any further!

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