A few days ago one of my old professors gave a shout-out to Clipboard, which she praised as having the functionality of Pinterest coupled with superior aesthetics and a broader feature set. Now I’ve never tried Pinterest as I’m not really big into sharing webpages in general; in fact I only really use my Tumblr for images and music. But my interest was piqued when she mentioned the unique way Clipboard had of grabbing live “clips”, i.e. articles, images, or videos or even complete chunks from a site by copying and pasting the site’s code, and then taking that clip and displaying it in an aesthetically pleasing “at-a-glance” view along with other clips. Throw in a tag-based cataloguing system for these digital clipboards, and you’ve got a robust brainfart collector there.

What really got me to check out Clipboard, though, was the thought that one webpage could essentially hold live previews of the dozens of browser tabs I typically have open at any given time. See, I’m something of a serial multitasker, and as nice as it is to be running a browser like Chrome that’s built with multiple tabs in mind, my MacBook just doesn’t have the juice to keep up with the dozens of web-based thoughts my mind is capable of juggling at once. And yes, I know I probably don’t use my bookmarks as well as I should- but like the old saying goes, “out of sight, out of mind”, and God only knows how many times I’ve completely forgotten about something I saw online because I dumped it into the endless abyss that is my Favorites menu.

Having said all that, consolidating my open tabs into a single open tab containing live, easily-viewable clips of the pages I’ve opened, makes managing my brain’s infinite feature-creep a million times easier on myself and my poor laptop. It may not necessarily be what Clipboard was designed for, but if you’re looking for a way to keep track of a particularly beefy browsing session, you can’t go wrong with Clipboard.