Enhanced Clipboard history with visualization

[crutkas]

it would be fantastic if we could have an enhanced version of clipboard history.

A future item here could be making it modular as well for additional ways to visualize / extend the clipboard items based on the file type.

@xyzzer has a good base.

[xmedeko]

@crutkas you mean items by mime type. Something like https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/inside_clipboard.html

[xyzzer]

@xmedeko What I have and think of building on looks like this:

1. When something gets copied to clipboard successfully - you get a little, non-disruptive confirmation tag/button sliding out of a corner of the screen to make you confident you copied something successfully.
2. When you click the tag - you get the clipboard history UI you normally access with Win+V
3. When you hover - you get access to a menu of simple contextual commands based on content type and at least in case of text content right now - based on actual content of the copied text using a set of regular expressions that ultimately, a user could configure. If something you copied looks like a GUID - you click to look it up in your source code, documentation, registry or other GUID ID database. If it looks like a name - you could look it up in Facebook, LinkedIn or your address list. Any text can be used to invoke a bing search, a wiki search or source code search. You can also use a keyboard shortcut to strip the format from the text and paste it without formatting even in an app that doesn't normally support "paste as plain text". If you copy an image file - you can click a button to convert it to a bitmap to paste in any app that supports pasting images (e.g. Outlook) and if you copy a bitmap - you can click to use an AI service to get the description of the bitmap as text in the clipboard or save it to an image file and get the file and its path as added formats in the clipboard so you can paste it anywhere that takes a file or a file path but doesn't directly work with an image itself (see below).
4. You could configure your own text types and URLs or programs that can be opened for them or plug in a PowerShell script to parse+recognize content and/or process it in any way if you want to add your own command to say - resize an image in clipboard before pasting it somewhere or quickly add meme-style text to an image before posting it on social media.
5. Ultimately, this is a way to speed up work. For example, I use it daily to copy a bug ID and look it up in Azure DevOps with one click instead of - opening the browser, loading ADO, pasting the ID and clicking the search button. We could build a set of built in search patterns and commands and you could also add your own.

[xmedeko]

@xyzzer Looks very powerful. What I need at the moment is just to see all clipboard formats, like InsideClipboard.

I would welcome just some text (regexp) manipulations. E.g I copy a plain text https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/671 and the tool add a HTML clipboard content <a href="...>#671</a>. So, I can paste it without any click in the tool menu.

[robsonsobral]

Hi, everybody!

Some little suggestions:

• to config how many items to save;
• to move the used items to top of list;
• to keep/remove formatting

Thank you, all!

[nolde]

ClipX page is back up, btw.

https://bluemars.org/clipx/

[haidar47x]

One thing I miss in the clipboard manager is the inability to set time limit for which to keep the clipboard items. Most clipboard managers have this implemented.

We can see this option in clipboard managers like CopyQ, Ditto, Maccy, and Alfred.