A context workbench for Mac.

What it does

ContextPaste shows you what is actually on the clipboard and lets you shape it before you paste. It can work with plain text, HTML, RTF, images, files, URLs, browser fragments, terminal output, collections, and derived versions.

Use it to clean formatting, keep structure, convert formats, extract images or links, combine copied items, paste things one by one, or save the process as a reusable workflow.

Why

The clipboard is not always one simple piece of text. A copy can include plain text, HTML, RTF, images, files, URLs, app-specific data, and derived versions.

Normal paste often picks one version for you. Sometimes that is fine. Sometimes it brings weird formatting, loses the useful part, or gives you the wrong shape for the app you are pasting into.

Prepare context

A copy can contain more than the visible selection. ContextPaste keeps the useful representations available so you can choose the one you want: cleaned text, rich text, original HTML, extracted links, images, file contents, or a collection of related pieces.

This is useful before pasting into an editor, terminal, notes app, issue tracker, LLM chat, or any workflow where bad context wastes time.

Workflows

When a transform works, you can keep it. ContextPaste can remember transforms and apply them automatically from rules about where you copied from, where you are pasting, what the content looks like, tags, collections, and your own logic.

AI can help write workflows without seeing the contents of your clipboard. The workflow logic can be generated from the shape of the task, not the private data you copied.

Collections and paste strategies

You can put paste material into collections, select subsets, tag items, add custom logic for what belongs together, and decide how the result should paste.

Sometimes you want several things pasted as one object. Sometimes you want a sequence: one piece at a time, in order, with the ability to stop, inspect, and continue. ContextPaste is built for both.

Not clipboard history

Clipboard history asks what you copied before. ContextPaste asks what this material is, what shape you need now, and whether the same preparation should be reusable next time.