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There's also ditto https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io

dmortin 8y ago
Ditto is great. I tried several clipboard managers and I found Ditto the best. A great feature which is not enabled by default is serching for substrings in any order, so if you want to search for an item which contains somewhere the strings 'dog' and 'cat' for example, then you just type 'dog cat' and it finds all entries which contain both of these substrings in any order anywhere.
- criddell 8y ago
  My only complaint with Ditto (and they may have fixed it by now) is the clip database grows unbounded. I ran out of space on my drive and I found the Ditto database was taking up several gigabytes. There is an option to delete and it took a long time to finish (overnight).
  - pasbesoin 8y ago
    I haven't used it in a while, but I recall a count limit that would trigger trimming when exceeded. In fact, as I recall, I had to manually increase or remove the default of... was it 500?, in order to get clips to stick around for the period of time I required. Clips could also be flagged (I forget the terminology used) so that they would not be automatically deleted. For stuff you used chronically or really needed to keep around (in which case, you shouldn't be solely trusting it to the utility's database -- even though, backed by SQLite, that was pretty darned stable; not entirely, though, back then, as I had it bork on me once or twice).
  - BrandoElFollito 8y ago
    This was with the limitations in place (how much entries to keep, for how long)? I never actually checked how big the db was, I assumed that it is pruned with the limit in place
- sdegutis 8y ago
  I noticed VS Code has this same feature when doing auto-completion and it made me realize how useful it is and that all auto-completion and fuzzy-matchers should have it.
Kagerjay 8y ago
I use ditto all the time, granted what I really use clipboard history 2 on my browser. works on both macos and windows https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clipboard-history-2/ajiejmhbejpdgkkigpddefnjmgcbkenk?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clipboard-history-... Make sure not to copy sensitive information though
jsilence 8y ago
Is there something like this for Linux?
- pasbesoin 8y ago
  Back when I was on Windows in the corporate world, Ditto was one of my most effective tools. (Constant context switching: Well, with Ditto, if you copied it, it's still in there and usually just mimimal few keystrokes of a search away.) With all the .NET Linux migration stuff, I was hoping Ditto might finally make it to the Linux if not 🞵NIX world. Not yet. (I don't know in detail how it is composited and whether my hope was/is realistic.) In Linuxland, there is CopyQ. I haven't tweaked i3 Window Manager, yet, so that its window performs as a float/pop-up instead of a tile, so I can't directly compare with Ditto. But it doesn't seem to be as complete and fluid in use. Note, too and in that regard, that Ditto data storage is an SQLite database. The utility is quite performant, even with hundreds of active clips. (I'd significantly bump up or outright remove the clip count trim boundary. Even if something happened a week or three ago, I'd usually find it -- or relevant pieces of it -- within a second or three, within Ditto's clip storage.) If Scott (I think it was) happens to read this, any thoughts about a port to 🞵NIX?
h1d 8y ago
When someone keeps using sourceforge as their main site/repo, I wonder how relevant the project wants to stay.
BrandoElFollito 8y ago
I use ditto for years and it never failed me. It is fantastic. One great feature is the ability to pasy an unformatted version of the clip

Ditto is great. I tried several clipboard managers and I found Ditto the best. A great feature which is not enabled by default is serching for substrings in any order, so if you want to search for an item which contains somewhere the strings 'dog' and 'cat' for example, then you just type 'dog cat' and it finds all entries which contain both of these substrings in any order anywhere.

criddell 8y ago
My only complaint with Ditto (and they may have fixed it by now) is the clip database grows unbounded. I ran out of space on my drive and I found the Ditto database was taking up several gigabytes. There is an option to delete and it took a long time to finish (overnight).
- pasbesoin 8y ago
  I haven't used it in a while, but I recall a count limit that would trigger trimming when exceeded. In fact, as I recall, I had to manually increase or remove the default of... was it 500?, in order to get clips to stick around for the period of time I required. Clips could also be flagged (I forget the terminology used) so that they would not be automatically deleted. For stuff you used chronically or really needed to keep around (in which case, you shouldn't be solely trusting it to the utility's database -- even though, backed by SQLite, that was pretty darned stable; not entirely, though, back then, as I had it bork on me once or twice).
- BrandoElFollito 8y ago
  This was with the limitations in place (how much entries to keep, for how long)? I never actually checked how big the db was, I assumed that it is pruned with the limit in place
sdegutis 8y ago
I noticed VS Code has this same feature when doing auto-completion and it made me realize how useful it is and that all auto-completion and fuzzy-matchers should have it.

Kagerjay 8y ago

I use ditto all the time, granted what I really use clipboard history 2 on my browser. works on both macos and windows https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clipboard-history-2/ajiejmhbejpdgkkigpddefnjmgcbkenk?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clipboard-history-... Make sure not to copy sensitive information though

jsilence 8y ago

Is there something like this for Linux?

pasbesoin 8y ago
Back when I was on Windows in the corporate world, Ditto was one of my most effective tools. (Constant context switching: Well, with Ditto, if you copied it, it's still in there and usually just mimimal few keystrokes of a search away.) With all the .NET Linux migration stuff, I was hoping Ditto might finally make it to the Linux if not 🞵NIX world. Not yet. (I don't know in detail how it is composited and whether my hope was/is realistic.) In Linuxland, there is CopyQ. I haven't tweaked i3 Window Manager, yet, so that its window performs as a float/pop-up instead of a tile, so I can't directly compare with Ditto. But it doesn't seem to be as complete and fluid in use. Note, too and in that regard, that Ditto data storage is an SQLite database. The utility is quite performant, even with hundreds of active clips. (I'd significantly bump up or outright remove the clip count trim boundary. Even if something happened a week or three ago, I'd usually find it -- or relevant pieces of it -- within a second or three, within Ditto's clip storage.) If Scott (I think it was) happens to read this, any thoughts about a port to 🞵NIX?

h1d 8y ago

When someone keeps using sourceforge as their main site/repo, I wonder how relevant the project wants to stay.

BrandoElFollito 8y ago

I use ditto for years and it never failed me. It is fantastic. One great feature is the ability to pasy an unformatted version of the clip