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markdog12 | 5 months ago

Whoa, you can now search clipboard history. Go to Spotlight Search, Command+4. You'll get a list of entries, each with a copy button, and is searchable. Even shows the app it was copied in.

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bayindirh|5 months ago

At last Apple implemented a decent clipboard history. KDE has this thing for a decade now, I guess...

KDE also can encode entries as QR codes, so you can make URLs transferable to your phone or whatnot.

-- Sent from my MacBook Air.

heavyset_go|5 months ago

If you use KDE Connect, your clipboard history immediately goes to your phone's clipboard :)

pabs3|5 months ago

KDE doesn't have infinite clipboard history yet, like the GPaste extension for GNOME Shell has.

ubercow13|5 months ago

More like, almost 3 decades.

afandian|5 months ago

Including passwords from password managers?

TomaszZielinski|5 months ago

Pretty handy, right :)?

And seriously, managers like 1Password clear the clipboard after some time. I would guess that there’s some clipboard API that allows managers to exclude copied passwords from being permanently added to the history.

Still, there are pieces of data that one might not want to store in such unobvious place as clipboard history so it’s good to know about it.

hu3|5 months ago

Windows has this with Win+V for those wondering.

burnt-resistor|5 months ago

There were already a zillion and one apps (Maccy, ClipMenu, Jumpcut, Flycut, Alfred, ...) that provided this.

It'll be one of the first things I turn off whenever I get around to installing it ~6+ months from now.

dsego|5 months ago

Does that mean that add-on clipboard managers like Maccy are obsolete now?

al_borland|5 months ago

In most cases Apple’s integrations do the 20% that 80% of users want. Third party apps give the additional 80% of features that the 20% may want.

How obsolete those apps are depends on you as a user.

latexr|5 months ago

No. Spotlight’s clipboard history doesn’t even keep items for longer than eight hours.

merrvk|5 months ago

Wow, didn't realise there was more than one tab

al_borland|5 months ago

When you open it for the first time there is a display that tells you all the shortcuts.

Beyond that, if you move your mouse while Spotlight is on-screen, it shows the tabs and tells you the shortcuts as you hover over them.