DevMan

Snippet is something you use often. But history is just a history - your trip in the past, your memory, etc. And I can’t find any reasonable point to limit it by time. 

Storing/searching plain text does not require a lot of space and not a problem for any more or less modern mac. And it could be user option how many mb/gb use for storage. 

If you have any concerns about search performance you can do the instant search within last X months and the show “search X months older” and then show “search X months older” and so on. 

On 19/11/2017 at 1:48 AM, deanishe said:

A significantly higher limit for plain text items than for images also seems reasonable and useful

+1
actually this is the most needed part: limiting time to store images/files/etc is almost ok. but storing plain text is not a problem at all.

2 minutes ago, deanishe said:

Then please submit your feature request

already done. and thank you for the discussion.

The ability to keep clipboard history forever or set limit to chosen count of stored records instead of time (3 months) is highly needed.

1 minute ago, deanishe said:

If you only have a 64GB SSD in your MacBook Air, then yeah, there is potentially a big problem giving users a button that could create a 20GB database in an invisible folder

it's user choice.
frankly said from this point of view workflows feature is more dangerous but it's implemented.

8 minutes ago, deanishe said:

Namely? Serious question: All the ones I've tried impose a ~1000 item limit.

clipmenu, clipy, paste.

15 minutes ago, deanishe said:

think I've answered that question

unfortunately not.

4 minutes ago, deanishe said:

If you set your history to "forever", then it's going to be enormous and potentially have a significant negative impact on performance and usability.

rly? i'm a software developer with more then 20 years of experience, and believe me or not but there is no "significant" impact to store data forever. especially on modern computers.
and other clipboard apps easily handle forever storing.

if you have some concerns just do huge tooltip "activate on your own risk" and that's it.

 

10 minutes ago, deanishe said:

The latter is fairly trivial to do

i'm not interested in tricks/hacks (anyway i appreciate your post, but this hack makes storing date info unusable).
i'm interested in getting reasonable  answer why such functionality is not implemented yet or why it can't be implemented or why it's not a feature request.

actually, this is the only reason to use other apps to handle clipboard.

I believe that customer has a right to store own data as long as he wish. and i can't understand what the problem to implement this.

so +1 for the ability to keep it forever.
 

Just start typing))

Really nice.

Thanks for sharing. 

+1 for history sync.

Also what is the reason to limit history to 3 months?

Thank you very much Andrew. I would be really grateful.

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