snowy

just wondering, is search history still in the works? It would be great to view the last 5-10 queries. I use the up arrow regularly, but often find its not the last 2 queries. and being able to just view them in a list would be great. thanks!

i would opt even for button in the top right corner. and it was just click and it pinned the viewer (and preferably keyboard shortcut) that keeps it on top while selecting other windows(terminal windows). my use case is little different. I don't often pick sequential items. i search for different strings of copied info (generally commands, config statements).

yeah keyboard shortcut to pin/unpin the clipboard history viewer would be super helpful.

There are workflows that sort of do this, but require additional user intervention. apple offers it apple vision api. It would be nice if the images were searchable. then in the view you could either select the text or see the available text to copy below the image (parts or all of it).

I messed a little with the snippet trigger. i haven't gotten to work I wanted. I might try some more, but I still think there is value in the functionality. I wouldn't say borderline other clipboard managers (like Alfred offering clipboard history and workflows): https://docs.copied.app/#/mac/preferences?id=rules Copied.app allows for something like this:

I was thinking more along the lines of inverse of how ignore option works. I am just taking stab that Alfred uses NSworkspace.shared activeApplication. Hence, why the note in the clipboard manager will ignore only "focusable" apps. As it is only way to tell which application is "active" or "focused". My thought was if you had list of triggerable apps. If this is the "focused" or active application when copying to the pasteboard it can be trigger in a workflow.

The ability to recognize which app something is being copied from and perform regex or match of certain string. It then could allow you to trigger a workflow from. or manipulate the text. Example OneNote if you copy a link for workbook, section, page, etc... it can include two forms of the same link in the same copy event: https://whatever.you.arelinking.uuidorsomething onenote:https://whatever.you.arelinking.uuidorsomething I care about the second string. I want to paste in my to do app. So the second link I need to convert to: onenote://https://whatever.you.arelinking.uuidorsomething this allows it to direct link to the native app at the specified location in onenote. It could also be solved presumably when you go to paste it. it would match the "onenote:" and modify the string on output. or maybe there is another way to do it that is implied?

I was able to make a hacky workaround using AppleScript. It takes the Alfred query puts it in the pasteboard open spotlight and pastes in spotlight with refinements. I made one for general, subject, and from. The query gets left in the pasteboard in case you want to refine further and you exit Spotlight. (recommend Alfred's clipboard history here...obviously 🤣) if anyone is interested I can post it. it's ridiculously basic, but helpful. (side note: I tried bash, python and AppleScript to search emlx files. they all took forever to search when you get over 1k emails...so basically not useful for anyone) Example: Alferd query: em George Spotlight: kind:mail George