Amazing 
I'll have time to test it out later tonight 
Hey @Andreas_Hegenberg, do you plan to publish release notes for the makeover of the clipboard?
I would like to use it, but the stopper for me is the duplicated entries, so if there will be release notes I can check if (when) this feature has been added so that I test, otherwise I need to check every now and then.
Thank you!
soon! but yes the anti-duplication is already added in the latest alphas and on by default
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4.950 alpha adds:
- for copied files the "open with" button now shows a list of apps that can open the file
- fixes some issues with the "edit image" action (by the way, this is my most used action in the BTT clipboard manager for quickly annotating screenshots)
- the uti selection now adds "file.contents" for copied files. Makes it easy to quickly view the contents of a copied file.
To summarize some features that have been added the last few days:
- button bar moved to the bottom and has now reorderable and hidable items
- duplication prevention active by default
- in collapsed mode you can press space to show the preview
- files ( and any other items) can be dragged in and out of the clipboard manager
- reorder items in the clipboard manager by dragging and dropping or by pressing the new "move to top" button
- allow to access specific paste board types (while defaulting to the auto preview mode)
- Automatically adds a conditional activation group that allows to use cmd + 1- 9 to paste the numbered items. If you want this to work even if the clipboard manager is not active you need to change the variable the CAG is based on from BTTClipboardManagerActive to BTTClipboardManagerOpen
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Andreas, what could be the reason "Open With" to not work? If I click it nothing happens (tried with a screenshot and with a text). Pressing the shortcut CMD+O, results also in nothing.
Is it expected the BTT Clipboard menu to be show only if I hover over the clipboard window?
The clipboard manager should never steal the menubar, the active app stays the same.
"Open with" can only work with files at the moment, but I could change it to create a temporary file for other copied content
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That makes sense. If you can this temp file for copied content would be great. Like if you created snapshot from app X, clipboard manager to offer that app as first suggestion, and maybe also offer real "Open With" to choose different app.
Two more from me:
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I'm not sure, but is it possible that in one of the previous recent alphas (2-3 alphas ago), "Just copy" to also moved the copied content at the top (number 1) and not only paste/standard?
If I'm wrong, do you think this makes sense (for the other clipboard manager, this is the default - no matter if copy or paste always move at the top). -
If I search by typing text, then use the arrow keys to select different results and then start typing again it is deleting the current text (in the search text field), instead of appending it, is this bug or working as designed?
I've never used BTTs clipboard manager as I got used to Alfred's one, but some of these features sound extremely tempting!!!
One thing i would love is to be able to run an apple shortcut on a clipboard image (resize, compress etc.), how would the shortcut know how to get the changed content back to the entry in the BTT manager?
you can run shortcuts (or use custom transformers JS Text Transformer Functions · GitBook )
I can post some examples later, to get it back into the clipboard manager you‘d basically copy the modified one again
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Any examples at your leisure would be much appreciated. I tested "Edit image" which is totally awesome by the way, and it edits-in-place, so I hope the shortcuts do the same (i.e. you store clipboard entries as cached files, so the shortcut just reads that and can write back to the same file; I have to admit I find Apple Shortcuts, for all the fancy GUI, far less intuitive than the older tools!)).
Can I just reiterate how utterly awesome editing and running shortcuts on clipboard items is, wish I'd known about this sooner 
...and the soon-to-be integration of UTIs is the Chef's kiss!!!!! 
I wish I could use this. But unfortunately I can't code. 
So this is what the upper case looks like?
async (clipboardContentString) => {
//example
return clipboardContentString.toUpperCase()
}
But what do I do if I want to change the font, the size or something else? That's why I would like something self-explanatory like this for BTT.
@Frank1 this is indeed pretty complicated. However I have already made a lot of progress for a dedicated action for this.
I am very pleased to hear that, thank you Andreas!
by the way, I've noticed that copying screen shots with ⌘+c no longer works. It works with the menu.
weird, that seems to work fine here (but it doesn't show the shortcut in the menu for technical reasons)
Maybe that's because I'm a masochist and work with 13.2.1. 
ah wait, I didn't look at your screenshot, this is not the clipboard manager but the screenshot editor I haven't checked that one.
(By the way I highly recommend to configure a shortcut for "Copy Picture Of Selected Area To Clipboard", then it will show up directly in BTT's clipboard manager
This is an example shortcut that would extract text from a copied image.
Might require 4.955 alpha to fully work.
However currently this would just add a new item to the top of BTT's clipboard manager. I think I'll add a shortcut function to replace the item that it was called on.
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Awesomeness indeed! Thank you!
