BTT Clipboard Manager Development & Wishlist

thank. you! perfect could not find that elsewhere. all I needed. thanks as always

Thanks! That was it.

Im adding filters for apps. I thought that it would be nice to have a filter for screenshots. Do you know if there is an app that can be filtered for that? I tried app:screenshot and app:screencapture with no success.

Edit: Just realized, that they are not copied to clipboard. I have to do a Better Touchtool version that copies it to the clipboard. Ill see if that works.

In 5.069 I added a way to "detach" specific items into a floating window. It's very basic but I find it quite helpful:

Edits to the floating windows are currently not being saved.

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v 5.070 text items are not duplicated anymore (by default) when editing them. This makes it easier to edit snippets.

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Loving the new UI for the clipobard manager!
Would it be possible to add a name/label to the favorites? Would be killer as a way to store snippets and other data I frequently access but also as a way to better organize it

Hey Andreas, long time no see. Happy new year, hope it brings only positive emotions.

Just a quick one from me:
CMD + Y / "Copy & Move To Top" and "Just Copy" are not closing the Clipboard manager even if "Close Clipboard Manager after all actions" is enabled.

BTT Version: 5.083 (2025012005)

thanks I'll fix that!

Wishlist - some additional features for the the conversion possibilities:

  • Convert text to lowercase, UPPERCASE, CamelCase
  • Remove duplicate lines
  • Remove and count duplicate lines
  • URL Encode
  • URL Decode
  • Trim/strip lines
  • Insert line numbers
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these can all done via custom js transformers, chatgpt should be able to generate them :slight_smile:

I just had a thought for future updates. It would be nice to have the ability to have subfolders on the snippets. For ex i have Terminal snippets, and would love to have a folder for different apps commands, rsync, homebrew, ffmpeg etc. Otherwise I will end up with 100 differents commands and its hard to find them.

Or for mail responds.

@Andreas_Hegenberg
关于剪切板合并粘贴的问题,我之前反馈

我选择多个内容后按cmd+v,我不希望是通过触发回车案件,因为这在我使用IM或者终端对话,进行合并粘贴的时候,触发了发送或者提交的操作。

在我是用其他所有剪切板工具时,都是只是简单的内容合并和粘贴事件,不会触发回车事件,希望优化

不过我自定义了一个操作,可以实现避免回车事件,只是默认的cmd+v是会触发回车操作的。

Regarding the issue of clipboard merge and paste, I provided feedback before. When I select multiple contents and press cmd+v, I don't want it to be triggered by pressing the enter key because when I use IM or have a terminal conversation and perform merge and paste, it triggers the send or submit operation. When I use all other clipboard tools, it is just a simple content merge and paste event and does not trigger the enter key event. I hope for optimization.

However, I have customized an operation that can avoid the enter key event. Only the default cmd+v will trigger the enter key operation.

bug报告:
在我打开了btt的设置面板时,时无法打开剪切板管理工具的,它会显示一下然后自动被关闭,希望修复
版本:btt 5.089

Bug report:
When I open the settings panel of btt, I cannot open the clipboard management tool. It will show up for a moment and then be automatically closed. I hope this can be fixed.
Version: btt 5.089

I asked a user on the Scrivener forums what kept them using maccy and not BTT for clipboard management and these were their reasons:

Summarised:

  1. Dark mode text is often black on dark grey (for example copied from LibreOffice)
  2. Lots of tiny text and icons (dense UI)
  3. Items take a lot of vertical space, can fit in many more entries in maccy than BTT in th same screen space
  4. BUG: saved search dialog got stuck on screen
  5. BUG? favorites show all items

I have seen 5 very rarely (like the UI gets stuck), but not common for me. For 2 & 3 something like a compact UI mode would help. I also have problems with 1, some way of checking the font colour and reversing the background or the font colour itself would help?

I cannot change the name of a snippet folder with the menu. Is there another way?

Hi Andreas. I'm trying the "detatch" feature, but whenever I click on the icon it closes the main window and opens a floating window that is completely empty. The clipped text is not there. It only seems to work if the main panel is pinned.

ah you are right, I'll fix that. (had mine pinned recently thus didn't notice)

@Frank1 renaming is not yet implemented, will come soon.

Thanks. It might also be helpful to change the appearance of the pin icon so that we can see at a glance if the window is pinned.

Oh, and it would also be helpful if there were tooltips when hovering over this row of icons. I had to guess at what they do:
Screenshot_2025-01-22 11.19.22_MHwTEX

should be fixed in 5.094 (uploading)