Copy Text
Free online copy and paste notepad: save the texts you paste again and again (replies, signatures, addresses, links, hashtags, prompts) on boards and copy any of them with one click. Private, kept in your browser, with file backups and optional encrypted backups to your Hive account.
Press Ctrl/⌘ + Enter to save. Everything stays in this browser: nothing is uploaded, unless you turn on ☁ Sync (to your own OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive or iCloud) or ☁ Hive backup (encrypted by default).
☁ Save online & sync
☁ Back up to Hive
Save your boards (all, or the ones you tick) to your own Hive account and load them on any computer or phone with Hive Keychain: the browser extension, or the Keychain phone app (no extension needed: approve in the app). No mes.fm account and no server: the backup is written to the Hive blockchain from your browser, signed in Keychain. Your keys never leave Keychain.
What to know before you use it
- It is permanent. Anything written to Hive stays in the blockchain's history forever. "Hide" removes a backup from this list, but the data itself can never be deleted.
- It is public. Anyone can see that your account saved a Copy Text backup, when, and how big it is. With Encrypt on they can't read it: a fresh random key encrypts it in your browser and only that key is locked to your own memo key, which only you hold. With Encrypt off, anyone can read every text, forever.
- It needs your memo key in Keychain to encrypt and to open an encrypted backup (it is there if you imported your account with the master password). If you ever change your memo key, older encrypted backups can no longer be opened, so save a new one.
- It uses Resource Credits, not money: Hive's free allowance, which refills over about five days. A typical backup costs a small part of it; very new accounts with almost no Hive Power may have to wait. Saving uses your posting key; it can't move any funds.
- Size: up to about 150 KB after compression (thousands of short texts). Each 40 KB part is one Keychain confirmation.
- Don't keep passwords or recovery phrases here, encrypted or not.
What is Copy Text?
Copy Text is a free clipboard shelf for the things you paste again and again: a signature, an address, a reply you send every week, a link, a hashtag block, a code snippet, a prompt. Save each one as a note, and when you need it, click the note and it is copied. Your computer's own clipboard only remembers one thing at a time; this remembers as many as you like, for as long as you like.
How to use it
- Save: paste or type into the box at the top and press Save (or Ctrl/⌘ + Enter). Paste & save grabs whatever is on your clipboard in one click.
- Split: paste a post and press ✂ Split into texts to save it as several notes at once: the full text, the title, the link, the description and the hashtags. Tick the ones you want and edit them before saving.
- Copy: click a note, or its Copy button. Then paste it where you need it.
- Boards: keep different sets apart (Work, Home, Social, Code…). + Board makes a new one. Search looks across every board.
- Pin, colour, reorder: pin your favourites to the top, colour-code notes, and drag the ⠿ handle to put them in your order.
- Edit: the ✎ button edits the title and text, changes the colour and moves the note to another board.
- Back up: More ▾ → Back up everything downloads a file you can restore on this or another device. Or press ☁ Hive backup to save an encrypted backup to your Hive account and load it on any device with Hive Keychain.
Save online and sync between devices
Press ☁ Sync to keep all your boards in one file, copy-text.json, in your own cloud storage. Every change is saved there automatically a few seconds later, and the line under the toolbar always tells you whether everything is saved (✓ Everything is saved) or not yet. On a computer with the OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive or iCloud app installed, create the sync file in that app's folder and it uploads every change; on your other computer, open the same file from its folder. If you change texts on two devices, both sets of changes are kept: new texts from both, and what you deleted or edited on one is deleted or edited on the other. Your browser writes the file itself; nothing goes through mes.fm.
Notes that fill themselves in
Put {date}, {time}, {weekday}, {year} or {iso} in a note and it is replaced with the current value at the moment you copy it, so a reply that says “as of {date}” is always up to date. Type {{date}} if you want the literal text {date}.
Is it private?
Yes. Your notes are stored only in this browser (localStorage) and are never sent to a server, so don't keep anything here that you would not keep in a browser on that computer, such as passwords. Clearing your browser's site data deletes them, so if they matter turn on ☁ Sync or keep a backup file.
Encrypted backups on Hive
If you have a Hive account, ☁ Hive backup saves all your boards to it, so you can load them on another computer or your phone (in the Keychain app's browser). Nothing goes through mes.fm: your browser compresses the backup, encrypts it with a new random key, locks that key to your own Hive memo key in Hive Keychain, and Keychain signs it onto the blockchain. Only you can open it. Hive is permanent and public, so others can see that a backup exists and its size, but not what it says. You can also save without encryption, but then anyone can read it forever. More MES tools
Related tools
For pictures instead of text, try MES Draw, a drawing pad with shapes, emoji, symbols and templates. Also handy: Symbol Copier, Emoji Copier and Share Launcher.