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Everything you copy lands in a searchable history with no entry limit, and by default it stays when the app or your PC restarts. This page covers what gets captured, the limits, pinning and saving, groups, search and filters, and acting on many entries at once.

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What gets captured

Section titled “What gets captured”

A background watcher checks the clipboard a few times a second and records every new copy: plain text, links, rich HTML (with a plain-text fallback kept alongside), images, files and folders. Copies made by the app itself are never re-captured, and a copy identical to the newest entry is skipped, so the history stays duplicate-free.

Images are saved to disk at full quality the moment they arrive and previewed from there, which keeps the app light even with large screenshots. Copied videos play directly on the card with play, seek and mute controls. Multi-file copies show a thumbnail strip with a +N chip that expands to the full list.

The entry currently held by the operating system clipboard is marked with an accent border and an In clipboard chip.

Limits

Section titled “Limits”
  • History has no entry limit. Nothing is dropped as it grows.
  • With Keep history across restarts off, only pinned and Saved entries, and anything in the cloud or a space, stay when the app restarts. It is on by default. See Settings.
  • Up to 10 entries can be pinned. The 11th pin shows a toast instead.
  • A single copy larger than about 4 MB of text, rich text, or file paths is refused with a toast rather than truncated, and your ordinary paste still works. Images are exempt, since they are stored as files on disk. This is separate from the cloud sync size caps.

Pin vs Save

Section titled “Pin vs Save”

These are two different promises:

  • Pin puts an entry in the quick-paste popup’s Pinned tab. Maximum 10.
  • Save keeps an entry through Clear history, and through restarts even with Keep history across restarts off. It is independent of pinning.

Clear history keeps everything pinned or saved. Auto-save copied entries is on by default and adds every new capture to Saved, so while it is on, Clear history removes only entries captured while it was off. To have Clear history remove new entries, turn off Auto-save copied entries in Settings. Entries it already saved stay Saved.

Groups

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Groups are colored tags you define. Create, rename, recolor and delete them from the Group Manager, or assign them from an entry’s right-click menu. A group keeps the same color everywhere (you can override it with the color swatches), and deleting a group gives you a 5 second undo toast.

Pinned and Saved are system groups; those names are reserved.

Search and filters

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Typeall types
Dateany time
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AnyIn a space24Not shared104
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Groupsany group
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Search matches entry content and group names. Filters stack on top:

  • Quick: Pinned, Saved, and, once you are signed in, Mine or From others.
  • Type: text, url, html, image, video, document, file, folder.
  • Cloud: once you are signed in, Any, In cloud, or Local. Once you are in a space, the same section also filters by sharing: Any, In a space, Not shared, or one chip per space.
  • Groups: any of your groups.
  • Date: Any time, Today, 7 days, or Range, which lets you pick the start and end dates.

Every filter option shows the number of items it would leave you before you apply it.

While you are signed out, or while the app is reconnecting to your account, the Cloud section and Mine or From others are hidden and do not narrow the list. What you picked in them is kept, and applies again when you sign in.

Bulk actions

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Select multiple entries (with range select) to copy them as one item, pin, save, assign groups, share with a space, upload to or remove from your account, remove from a space, or delete, all in one action. Copy joins the selected entries into a single clipboard payload; it is unavailable when the selection mixes text and files, which the clipboard cannot carry as one item. Esc exits selection mode.

Opening an entry

Section titled “Opening an entry”

A single click copies the entry straight back to the clipboard; a double click opens it in a full viewer. You can swap those with Click a card to view it in Settings, so a single click opens and a double click copies. The viewer shows the entry at full size, and images can zoom to their original resolution.

Sorting and layout

Section titled “Sorting and layout”

Sort by Newest, Oldest, A to Z, Z to A, or Type. Switch between Tiles view, Grid view and Single column from the top bar. Entries group under collapsible day headers (Today, Yesterday, then dates), and long histories render progressively so scrolling stays smooth.