Write pasteboard to filesystem
Original tweet with idea:
A simple tool to save my clipboard items to a directory as files.
I can use my other file-based tools to search, edit, organize, etc.
Unix philosophy applied to a clipboard manager.
Installed Maccy and loving it. Would love to be able to add to a queue and have unified search over my clipboard history as well as browsing history. Maybe this is more about a Personal Search Engine
Challenges
Polling required to monitor changes on macOS
Have to poll the pasteboard to find out if it has changed.
Several examples to draw from:
- Sindre Sorhus' Pasteboard Viewer has a publisher extension of NSPasteboard that can be used to watch for changes.
- rsms's TypoFig has a minimal example of polling.
Protecting private information
It's possible
Write pasteboard to filesystem
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Write pasteboard to filesystem
Challenges
Polling required to monitor changes on macOS
Protecting private information