# 3 Clipboard.s | Shortcuts Library

> Clipboard manager, edit & manipulate Text in 3 Clipboards and full screen for AppleOS devices

## What this shortcut does

▶▶▶ 3 Clipboard.s Version 3.6 (10.04.2025) on AppleOS by 𝖮sᴛᴀʀᴄ,
COMPATIBILITY: iOS.26 - iPadOS.26 - MacOS.15
SUMMARY OF WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH 3CLIPBOARD.s (3Cb.s)
, and a little (or a lot) of text.
The complete description of the functions can be found in the Help integrated in the shortcut.
New functions in the latest version are tagged
⏺
and improvements
▲
MANAGEMENT and EDITING of TEXTS
⮕ Edit clipboard text in full screen with all the basic functions of a word processor: _Type, Cut, Copy, Paste, Select All, Search, Writing tools (AI), Translate, Speak, Cancel… ▲
⮕ Save text anywhere: via AirDrop, creating a TXT file, creating or adding to a permanent clipboard, to a temporary clipboard, to a note ⏺
⮕ Save history of clipboard contents to the permanent editable clipboard (iCloud, Optional)
⮕ Display history of the permanent clipboard
⮕ Transiently save significant or milestone changes to a temporary 3rd internal clipboard
⮕ Choose font size or fixed width, in the chosen system mode, dark or clear
⮕ Numbering the lines of a text or a list
⮕ Clear clipboard
⮕ Sort lines or words of text in alphanumeric order or randomly
⮕ Find and replace or insert in text any group of characters in simple mode or in RegEx language (with help and examples)
⮕ Find, count, tag and show occurrences of one or more strings simultaneously in the text
⮕ Find and show in their context the occurrences of two neighboring words separated by a variable number of characters
⮕ Search (on iOS or iPadOS) as on TextEdit or Safari by scrolling through occurrences
⮕ Speak the Clipboard’s content
⮕ Read or Edit in landscape mode (workaround for iOS17-26 bug)🪲
CONVERSIONS
⮕ Transform text into 𝙐𝙉𝙄𝘾𝙊𝘿𝙀 𝙨𝙩𝙮𝙡𝙚𝙨 that apps don't handle (e.g. make italicized or small caps words in the Messages app)
⮕ Convert text to different Uppercase and Lowercase modes
⮕ Convert an Internet Address (URL) to a Hyperlink
⮕ Convert text to QR code
⮕ Open and convert PDF to unformatted text ▲
⮕ Convert an HTML file to TXT ▲
⮕ Extract text from photos or scans using character recognition (OCR) and organize it to form a copy of a document or book
⮕ Encode and decode base64 text, and more
⮕ Convert text to hex code
UTILITIES
⮕ Quickly access a number of special characters (
arrows, stars, circled numbers, etc.
)
⮕ Build a list of files in a directory on the device or network (with sub-directories), classified according to the main criteria
⮕ Make inventory of the different types of characters in the text (letters, numbers, punctuation, etc.)
⮕ Make inventory of words and phrases in the text with reading time calculation
⮕ Format time-stamped device location data into text compatible with any mapping software
⮕ Compare 2 texts or lists word by word
⮕ Automatically compile a document of the content of one or more internet articles from the URLs
⮕ Load TXT file to clipboard
⮕ Search the contents of the clipboard on the internet in some useful sites (especially in french version)
ABOUT 3Cb.s
⮕ What's new in the latest version of 3Cb.s
⮕ Check for 3Cb.s update and load updates
⮕ Look up words in 3Cb.s's Help
⮕ Show 3Cb.s's Help
⮕ Open Shortcuts application (for better performance, or to control or change the code)
⮕ Launch the French version of 3Cb.s
Presse-papiers

## Compatibility

iPhone, iPad, Mac

## Required apps



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