It’s 8:00 AM and U2 is blaring from your older brother’s 1982 Pontiac Trans Am as you round the intersection of State and Main, headed to your high school. Your knees are knocking and your palms are sweaty because you just realized that you haven’t written a single essay question for the English midterm that’s due at 9.

At this point, you usually wake up and discover that you’re the same veterinarian, disc jockey or parking lot attendant you were when you went to sleep the night before, and those stressful days of forgotten homework assignments are long gone. But when you lived it, there loomed a tempting option…copy your friend’s answers. In the spirit of all that, today’s Add-on is a tidy way to bring that swift shortcut up-to-date (without the ethical debate).

AutoCopy copies the text you highlight without your ever having to ask, so a single click puts it where you want it. When you install AutoCopy, you’ll see a checkbox icon in the lower right-hand corner of your browser:

Left click to turn it off (or back on again):

Highlight text, right click, select “AutoCopy” and choose from all the different options to move text from its original spot to wherever you want it to go, including accessing previous clipboards, pasting a url into a location bar and more:

Right click on the AutoCopy checkbox icon for ways to use all the text copy options:

Like having things where you want them, when you want them? Don’t wait for someone else to do it for you — try AutoCopy right now.

Post from Elise Allen, who shaves seconds off each hour with easy copy-paste action. See all posts by Elise Allen.