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Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by Andaith »

danpalmer wrote: post #37
vunderba wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Raycast is also a Spotlight replacement that's very good and has a built-in clipboard history manager. https://www.raycast.com Everything that the OP listed it does out of the box (keyboard control, previews, searchable, etc). I'm very confused at what they found it was lacking.

Raycast is great, although I'm a little annoyed that unlimited clipboard history is behind a $10/month paywall – annoying given that it's just a config setting, I'm running the compute and storage.

I just saw the parent comment about alfred, enabled the clipboard history extension in raycast, gave it a cmd+shift+v hotkey, and then read your comment about it being behind a paywall?

Are you talking about a different none-extension clipboard history? I'm not paying for it and it works nicely.

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by Brajeshwar »

This is awesome, and I feel that this is indeed Alfred's Clipboard Manager on steroids. You did mention trying out Alfred. Without installing ClipBook but reading up on the features, what is missing from Alfred?

Alfred's Clipboard Manager is pretty navigable with the Keyboard; the history is as much as there (I don't know about being infinite), and I can also see the preview, etc.

I used to have Clipboard managers, but with Alfred + Powerpack, I did away with another program running on the menubar/background.

Edit/Update: I just checked Alfred and I can keep plain text, images, files list, for 3 months.

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by js2 »

leejoramo wrote: post #27
pier25 wrote: post #10

I just use Alfred. Has clipboard history and so much more. https://alfredapp.com/

As does LaunchBar, the Great Grand-Parent of all cmd-space launchers. While I can’t claim to have used it in the NeXT era, I am pretty sure I have since Mac OS X Beta https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

I thought Quicksilver was older, but you're correct, LB goes back to NS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaunchBar#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_(software)#History

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Post by reboot81 »

Love that the app displays shortcuts on the lower left. Why I use Maccy: -Handles images -Removes formatting -Has shortcuts -Offers search -Is installed with Homebrew

I often copy huge (+70000) rows of excel sheets. Makes Maccy sluggish. Superlarge clipboard entries I’d like to purge somehow. After X mins if larger than Y?

Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

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Brajeshwar wrote: post #43

This is awesome, and I feel that this is indeed Alfred's Clipboard Manager on steroids. You did mention trying out Alfred. Without installing ClipBook but reading up on the features, what is missing from Alfred? Alfred's Clipboard Manager is pretty navigable with the Keyboard; the history is as much as there (I don't know about being infinite), and I can also see the preview, etc. I used to have Clipboard managers, b…

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