Think about it like not saving the progress on a favorite video game, or forgetting to put a bookmark in a novel. Depending on your situation, you might realize that this is a bigger pain that it needs to be.

Now you have to go back into the app you’ve already closed and copy the original information, or worse–completely rewrite the whole thing. You copy the URL of the page, and that’s when it hits you: you have copied over the information on the clipboard that you needed to use elsewhere. Regardless of what it is, all you know is that you want to share it with the world via social media. Maybe it’s a cat video or a page of memes. You close the app containing this information and open the app that you need to enter it into, but then you get distracted by the Internet. Let’s say that you copy some important text to your clipboard with the intention of using it somewhere–perhaps a username or password.

A third-party tool called ClipDiary allows users to retrieve information lost in this way, but without it, it’s notoriously difficult. Most people who have used a PC understand this pain and will be happy to hear that recovering the lost “copy” might be easier than they thought. The Copy and Paste feature has long been a staple of computing, but it’s easy to lose something that may have once been stored on the clipboard.

How can i access my clipboard