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Re: The weight of the clipboard

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Post by layer8 »

PeterisP wrote: post #104
CyberShadow wrote: post #69

I'm working on a clipboard manager, because I'm not happy with any of the ones currently available. Here are my design goals: - The system should be able to efficiently store, manipulate, and search an unlimited number of clipboard entries with reasonable performance. - The software should be cross-platform, and should have implementations for major desktop platforms (Windows, X11, Wayland, macOS). - Non-text data (i…

> rich text (e.g. HTML) should be supported. While there definitely are good use cases where rich text clipboard should be supported, for me personally a major use case requires eliminating rich text - where I'm frequently pasting some data from some web system into e.g. a word document and I want to explicitly paste just the text, because it really does not matter what styling the web page used for some ID. Word's "…

Just install PureText.

https://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/

Re: The weight of the clipboard

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Post by layer8 »

CyberShadow wrote: post #69

I'm working on a clipboard manager, because I'm not happy with any of the ones currently available. Here are my design goals: - The system should be able to efficiently store, manipulate, and search an unlimited number of clipboard entries with reasonable performance. - The software should be cross-platform, and should have implementations for major desktop platforms (Windows, X11, Wayland, macOS). - Non-text data (i…

One clipboard feature/mode I’d like to have is "append to current clipboard content" (for text). I.e. like `>>` vs. `>` in the shell. Not multiple clipboard entries, just a single one that is textually appended to.

Re: The weight of the clipboard

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Post by avgcorrection »

Rygian wrote: post #21

To all of you who stopped worrying thanks to a clipboard manager, how do you handle sensitive contents in your clipboard? For example, I routinely copy-paste my passwords from KeePass, and I have disabled all clipboard management to avoid copies of my passwords lingering around.

My clipboard manager does not store things copied from KeepassX. Based on what the window is called. I had to configure it. CopyQ.

Re: The weight of the clipboard

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Post by Isthatablackgsd »

tuxone wrote: post #42
WayToDoor wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least on MacOS "sensitive" contents copied to clipboard by apps can be marked as such, and won't be persisted by my clipboard manager.

I see this happening also with the default clipboard manager in windows and 1password - copied passwords do not show up in the clipboard menu (downside they are not pastable in VMs either)

> default clipboard manager in windows and 1password - copied passwords do not show up in the clipboard menu

Mmm, Windows Clipboard does saves the password that I copied from Keepass, they will be in the menu. However Keepass have a option to clear the last entry in the clipboard which is set for 10 second to let the password persist in the clipboard and then Keepass will overwrite/remove the last entry after the time is up. Very useful imo.

Re: The weight of the clipboard

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Post by nickjj »

geocrasher wrote: post #18

I stopped worrying about it when I installed the Ditto clipboard Manager[0]. It keeps everything, so don't have to keep track of what I copied in my short term memory. I offloaded that task to the computer. Turns out they're good at that kind of thing. I wrote about it back in 2016 on my very ugly website: https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2016/02/clipboard-manager/ [0] https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/

Ditto is really good. I've been using it for a long time too.

Not only does it store a bunch of things but it's really easy to search through existing clips, especially text.

It's also:

    - Extremely efficient from a runtime perspective, it uses ~2mb of memory
    - Loads nearly instantly when you invoke it
    - Very easy to paste something without formatting (surprisingly useful)
    - Open source
It's in the same category of greatness as IrfanView and foobar2000 for Windows apps that I'll likely use until the end of time.

Re: The weight of the clipboard

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Post by yepthatsreality »

throwaway0a5e wrote: post #106
yepthatsreality wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The tapping is from anxiety. You’re defaulting to a common action. Some people chew their finger nails, some use a fidget spinner. If you want to stop, identify when you’re doing the habit and catch and control yourself, relax, and identify the anxiety.

Or it's just a habit. Not everything needs to be the result of some implied mental health problem.

At which point did I indicate there was a mental health problem? Everyone has anxiety and it manifests in different forms and eventually can be habitual.

Re: The weight of the clipboard

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Post by jFriedensreich »

I have exactly this feeling and still paste somewhere or copy garbage to get rid of it though for macOS i use yippy as clipboard manager and it improved the feeling of being in control a lot. similar ticks exist for undo history and saving as well as browser navigation. I wonder if this is something normal people experience or if it is connected to my strong adhd.

Re: The weight of the clipboard

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Post by TuringTest »

layer8 wrote: post #111
PeterisP wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> rich text (e.g. HTML) should be supported. While there definitely are good use cases where rich text clipboard should be supported, for me personally a major use case requires eliminating rich text - where I'm frequently pasting some data from some web system into e.g. a word document and I want to explicitly paste just the text, because it really does not matter what styling the web page used for some ID. Word's "…

Just install PureText. https://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/

Or configure CopyQ with a "Paste clipboard as plain text" action.

I used to use PureText for this, but this morning I discovered CopyQ and now I'm enjoying its enhanced clipboard capabilities, including that feature.

Re: The weight of the clipboard

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Post by enriquto »

CyberShadow wrote: post #69

I'm working on a clipboard manager, because I'm not happy with any of the ones currently available. Here are my design goals: - The system should be able to efficiently store, manipulate, and search an unlimited number of clipboard entries with reasonable performance. - The software should be cross-platform, and should have implementations for major desktop platforms (Windows, X11, Wayland, macOS). - Non-text data (i…

> Any suggestions?

Ability for keyboard-free editing, as in classical X: select to copy, click to paste.

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