Create some Custom Pasteboards: Good candidates are strings of text that you use frequently. My custom pasteboards include the following:
- the html sytnax for a hidden link
- website urls preformatted as hidden links for posting in forums
- search syntax strings for Accordance Bible Software
- templates for the editing of a wiki
- Copy the text you want to save
- Pull up Butler's Configuration window
- Click on the "+" button at the bottom, move down to Smart Item, then Pasteboard and then choose Custom Pasteboard
- Give the pasteboard an identifying name
- Place it somewhere in your configuration (I keep mine in the "This Mac" menulet)
Group your pasteboards in Containers (aka folders): At first, I only had a few custom pasteboards, which floated "loose" in my configuration. But eventually I had so many custom pasteboards, that became unwieldy. So I organized them by the contexts in which I use them. Among my pasteboard containers are: Accordance, NeoWiki, and Miscellaneous. To create containers:
- Go to Butler's Configuration Window
- Click on the "+" button at the bottom, and chose Container
- Give it a name
- Move the Container to where you want it in your configuration
- Drag the appropriate custom pasteboards into the container
- Open Butler's Configuration Window
- Click on the Container (or pasteboard) you want to assign a hot key to
- In the frame on the right, click on the Triggers Tab
- Type the desired hot key into the Hot Key field
- As soon as you assign a Hot Key to a container, a drop-down menu will appear. Choose one of the "Open a Menu" options

