What Did I Clip
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Clipboard Watcher
What is it
ClipboardWatcher is intended to be a one-trick-pony, though like many applications I am sure it will grow into a bloated beast. It’s one trick is this. It sits in the background and watches the clipboard for changes, if there is a new text item it will append the plain text (along with some optional information: timestamp and frontmost application name) to the AppendFile.
Read about the background of the application at O’Reilly Net.
Screen Shot
Features
Things It Does
- appends any text content to a text file of your choosing
- optionally time stamping the entry
- adding the application
- for some applications it can even add the path to the file or the URL
- open text file in a text editor
- indicates watchfulness with a really ugly icon in the dock
- see the screen shots for some ideas about what you can customize
Things It Will Do Soon
- optionally get more information from the supplying application (many browsers let you get the url, some editors let you get the filename, etc)
Things It Might Do
- delay saving to file until before clipboard changes instead of right after, would let one manipulate the text in some way before appending to text file. This would let one, strip HTML, replace tabs with space runs and the like
- roll over the text file when it reaches a certain size or age.
- run from the menubar (and not the dock) . Or neither (background only), but callable thru a hotkey (so I can modify preferences)
- be released for windows and linux
Pie in the Sky
- searchable database of clipboard captures
- Optional sound alert when new text is appended (”Ping!”)
Things it will not do
- it is not a clipboard manager
- it is not a widget to maipulate clipboard content
- it is not a clipboard preserver
- it is not an editing tool
- it is not a big monkey
Cost
Free for now, but who knows… if you want to make a donation towards a feature or just because you think you might be helped out by this application then use the paypal donate button. Otherwise, do something nice for someone you know, ‘pay it forward’
