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

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Only gripe... the default keyboard shortcuts are "paste un-formatted" in a lot of applications. Seems like some other combination of keys would be better to use.

I will add functionality to customize ANY keyboard shortcut in the app. Thank you for your feedback.

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

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

Yea, OP says it doesn't meet their requirements, but Alfred does every requirement they list. It is paid, but I paid 12 years ago and my license key is still working. Great dev(s?).

Alfred is a good software, but I miss the possibility to resize the clipboard history window to see more content in the preview panel. Same issue (for me) in Raycast. If someone knows how to enable such possibility, please share with us.

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

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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…

I don't mind to pay for a software. Most of the software costs like two cups of coffee. The only feature I miss in Alfred/Raycast is that I cannot resize the clipboard history window to see more content in the preview panel. I copy large text and source code files. It's hard to quickly look at the source code in a small preview panel.

Maybe it's just me and I didn't find a way to resize the window. If someone knows how to do this, please share with us.

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

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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?

I thought copy in excel only copied the range and it was during paste that data was copied. This is why you can’t make changes to your sheet between copy and paste.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea, OP says it doesn't meet their requirements, but Alfred does every requirement they list. It is paid, but I paid 12 years ago and my license key is still working. Great dev(s?).

Alfred is a good software, but I miss the possibility to resize the clipboard history window to see more content in the preview panel. Same issue (for me) in Raycast. If someone knows how to enable such possibility, please share with us.

It shows 15 items by default, which seems more than enough for me, and also offers search/filtering. But if for some reason that's not enough, then I guess it does miss out on that one item. I can't possibly imagine why you would need to see more results on the screen at one time, but everyone has different needs I suppose!

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

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> 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?

Okay, that's fair, and I agree, that is something that's lacking in Alfred.

The closest I can think of is expanding one item's preview by pressing Shift after Cmd+Opt+C but not the history window itself.

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