For all the fancy-schmancy things our modern-day technology promises to do for us, one thing Google has yet to give us is a simple and reliable way to sync the clipboards on our Android phones and computers.
It’s such a powerful feat to have at your fingertips, when it works well — ’cause you can just copy something in one place and then paste it immediately in the other, without any thought or effort. At its best, it’s like your two work surfaces share the same clipboard and work harmoniously to make your life easy.
What’s most frustrating is that Google actually had a super-simple system for this years ago, within Chrome — a single switch you could flip that’d just make your clipboards sync seamlessly and automatically, across any two devices where the browser was installed — but then, in typical Google form, the company gave up on the concept and killed it off at some point along the way. (Sigh.)
Since then, we’ve been left with a mishmash of overly complicated workarounds and compromise-ridden consolation prizes to choose from.
It’s overwhelming, to say the least, and more than a little annoying. But with the right pinch of one-time planning, you can still set up a synced clipboard between your Android device and computer. You just have to know where to begin.
