Use case · Writers & researchers

Collect on Monday. Quote it perfectly on Friday.

Research is copying: passages, sources, stats and half-formed sentences. Clypy keeps all of it forever and finds it by meaning, even when you cannot remember the words.

Free download · unlimited history on Pro · search by meaning

Everything you gather, still there when you draft

  • Vanished quote

    The perfect passage you copied last week is buried under a hundred copies since.

  • No source

    You have the quote but not the URL. Now you cannot cite it.

  • Exact words

    You remember the idea, not the phrasing, so plain-text search comes up empty.

Unlimited history

Nothing you copy expires

The quote you grabbed three weeks ago is still there, with the source URL it came from. Your clipboard becomes the research log you never had to keep.

Text · saved 19 days ago
“It takes an average of 23 minutes to fully return to a task after an interruption…”
ics.uci.edu/~gmarksource attached
Collections

A folder per piece

Drag every source, quote, and stray sentence for an article into one collection. When you sit down to draft, the whole file is one keystroke away.

This article’s collection
“The unloved clipboard”
17 clips · quotes, sources, drafts
Draft
6 quotes with source links
4 reference links
7 stray sentences & notes

From gathering to drafting without losing a thread

Read on phone, write on Mac

Highlights follow you to your desk

Copy a passage while reading on the couch. It is waiting in the strip when you open the manuscript, with no need to email it to yourself or switch apps.

Plain-text paste

Quotes land in your voice, not theirs

⇧⏎ strips fonts, sizes, and link styling on the way in. Your document stays your document, whatever you paste into it.

Search by meaning

“that stat about attention spans”

Forget the exact words. Remember the gist. Clypy searches your history semantically and surfaces the clip anyway.

Nothing lost to a cut

The paragraph you deleted is still there

Cut a passage from a draft and copy something else. Three days later it's one search away, exactly as you wrote it.

It's the commonplace book I always meant to keep. I copy while I read on the couch, and it's waiting in the manuscript when I open it Monday.

Harriet Vane
Long-form journalist