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

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Post by volteret4 »

accoil wrote: post #34
zmmmmm wrote: post #32

any functionality to exclude passwords from making it into the history? This is the most annoying thing with Maccy for me (I literally have complex wrapper scripts that turn it on and off when I'm using my password manager which are flaky and annoying to maintain).

Have you tried CopyQ? I've not used it on MacOS, but on Windows and Linux it can exclude based off window title: https://copyq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-to-omit-...

+1 to copyq. It has a lot of funcionality, you can exclude apps to save clip on log (passwords managers), yo can do personal snippets, images, even create your own scripts.... It has a bit deeper than anything else I tried and yet simply enough to run as is....

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

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Post by volteret4 »

heavyset_go wrote: post #18

If anyone is looking for a similar cross-platform and open source solution, CopyQ[1] is handy and scriptable. [1] https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/

+1 to Copyq, IMO best clioboard manager. It has a lot of functions, yet simple to use as is.

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

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Post by robxorb »

dimpalo wrote: post #80
trandango wrote: post #78

I'm really surprised no one has mentioned flycut as an option which has almost every feature mentioned, and is open source https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut .

Happily using flycut the last few years and it's been amazing. So yeah my question is how clipbook is better than flycut ?

Not familiar with flycut, but had a look through their issues. There are a few security-related, and a bunch of iCloud stuff. Eg, this one to add the option to disable iCloud sync, which is still open after 4 years:

https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut/issues/200

From that it seems clipbook may be better for people who care about local-only or have other security-related concerns (perhaps related to workplace policy, for example). Maybe someone who knows more could weigh in?

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

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Post by edelans »

jerieljan wrote: post #73

> I tried many third-party clipboard managers like Alfred [...] While great, they didn't fully meet my needs. > As a developer, my requirements are: > 1. Keyboard-centric operation to avoid using the mouse. I don’t want to waste my time moving my hands from the keyboard. > 2. Display many clipboard history items at once. I don’t like the idea with big tiles, so I can see only 5-7 history items on my 32” monitor. > 3.…

I was wondering the same. I'm very happy with Alfred and I use the clipboard history a lot. There is just no way back to having only 1 item kept in memory!

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

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Post by girishso »

Unbiased8678 wrote: post #4

Interesting, I've been using raycast clipboard that even stores images. Instead of cmd+shift+v i use cmd+shift+p which is much quicker to pull up.

The only thing missing from raycast clipboard is ability to paste previous 'copy's with a keyboard shortcut.

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

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Post by Ikryanov »

jerieljan wrote: post #73

> I tried many third-party clipboard managers like Alfred [...] While great, they didn't fully meet my needs. > As a developer, my requirements are: > 1. Keyboard-centric operation to avoid using the mouse. I don’t want to waste my time moving my hands from the keyboard. > 2. Display many clipboard history items at once. I don’t like the idea with big tiles, so I can see only 5-7 history items on my 32” monitor. > 3.…

Alfred is cool, but I didn't find a way to resize the clipboard history window, so I can see more content in the preview panel. Same issue (for me) in Raycast. No way to make the clipboard history window bigger.

Maybe it's just me and there's a way to enable window resizing in Alfred/Raycast?

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

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Post by Ikryanov »

OJFord wrote: post #38

I've been meaning to look for this since switching from Linux at work - will try it out when open source for sure. Are the keybindings customisable? I'm accustomed to Super-c showing my list and Super-v pasting, so now of course I keep messing up because selections aren't copied automatically, Super(Cmd)-c is doing it and not showing a list, and erasing my previous clip... I don't mind too much relearning muscle memo…

The feature to customize keyboard shortcuts in the app is #2 on the list of requested features.

I will let you know when I implement it and open source the project.

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