Easy ways to create a clipping

• From selected text in a form field or web page body in Firefox, or from selected text in an email message in Thunderbird
• By dragging and dropping text into the Clippings toolbar button on Thunderbird
• Save the web page address (URL) with the new clipping

Quickly paste a clipping

• Easy access to your clippings from the Clippings context menu in a web page form field (Firefox) or email message editor (Thunderbird)
• Individual clippings can be pasted as formatted text if they contain HTML tags
• Assign shortcut keys to clippings for quicker pasting. Just press ALT+SHIFT+Y (Command+Shift+Y on macOS), then the shortcut key
  Clippings 5.x users: The keyboard paste key is CTRL+ALT+V or Command+Option+V.
• Locate the clipping you want to paste by typing its name and selecting it from an autocomplete menu

Manage your clippings

• Organize your collection of clippings into folders using Clippings Manager
• Backup your clippings to safeguard against accidental data loss due to a hard drive crash, unintentional edits or deletes, etc.
• Make your important clippings stand out with color labels (not yet available for Clippings 6)

For advanced users

• Define placeholders inside a clipping that you will be prompted to fill in when you paste the clipping in Thunderbird. Built-in placeholders for the date, time, clipping name, user agent, etc. are also available
• Import and export clippings to or from data source files to share with other users

Supported Languages

English (United States), and German (version 5.5.x only).