You need to grab a price, a line of code, or a single word from a page. The normal way is to click, hold, and drag your cursor across it — and if your hand slips even slightly, you either grab half a sentence too much or miss the last letter entirely.
Why normal text selection is more annoying than it should be
Click-and-drag selection was designed for selecting paragraphs, not for grabbing a single word or number quickly. On a trackpad especially, it's easy to overshoot, and on a page with tight line spacing you can end up selecting the line above or below by accident. Multiply that by however many times a day you copy something, and it adds up to a lot of small, avoidable friction.
Worth knowing: most people never question this because it's the only way browsers have ever worked. But it doesn't have to be the only way.
The fix: ClickMee
ClickMee is a free Chrome extension that turns text selection into two clicks. Click a word to select it, click it again and it's copied to your clipboard — formatting, links, and line breaks included. No dragging, no missed letters.
Want more than one word? Turn on multi-word mode, click the first word, click the last word, and everything in between gets copied as a single selection — same two clicks, just a wider range.
How to use it — step by step
- Install ClickMee. Add ClickMee from the Chrome Web Store. Free, takes about ten seconds.
- Click any word on any page. It gets selected, with a highlight color you can customize so you always see what's about to be copied.
- Click it again to copy. The word — or the full range, with multi-word mode on — is instantly on your clipboard.
- Find it later if you need to. Every copy is saved to a local Copy History you can search, re-copy from, or delete — nothing ever leaves your device.
What else it does
- Keeps formatting — bold text, links, and line breaks copy exactly as they appear on the page, with the option to include images too
- Per-site rules — turn ClickMee off on specific sites like Gmail or Notion without disabling it everywhere else
- Disable links — copy a link's text instead of accidentally clicking through and navigating away
- Shortcuts and side panel —
Ctrl+Shift+Hopens Copy History,Ctrl+Shift+Ytoggles ClickMee on or off, and it can run as a side panel instead of a popup - 100% private — your copy history and settings stay on your device, no servers, no analytics, no tracking
Get the extension
ClickMee is completely free, every feature included. If you copy things from the web more than a couple of times a day, it saves you from the small annoyance of click-and-drag every single time.
FAQ
No — ClickMee only changes what happens when it's actively selecting a word. You can turn off link-clicking so a click copies a link's text instead of navigating away, or turn ClickMee off entirely on specific sites with a per-site rule.
Yes — turn on multi-word mode, click the first word, then click the last word, and everything in between gets copied as one selection.
Yes — bold, links, and line breaks copy exactly as they appear on the page, and you can optionally include images that fall inside the selection.
No. Your copy history and settings are stored locally in your browser — nothing is ever sent to a server, tracked, or sold.
Yes — completely free, with every feature included: multi-word mode, Copy History, per-site rules, and keyboard shortcuts. No account, no ads, nothing to upgrade.
ClickMee — Free, Two Clicks to Copy
Click a word to select it, click again to copy it. Formatting included.
