ClipFlow

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by Helalsoft

Seamlessly capture, search, and quick-paste from your clipboard history.

★ 1 starsUpdated 2mo agoMIT
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ClipFlow

ClipFlow is a powerful clipboard manager plugin for Obsidian. It seamlessly captures, searches, and quick-pastes from your clipboard history directly within your Obsidian workspace.

Features

  • Clipboard History: Automatically captures everything you copy, whether from inside Obsidian or your system clipboard.
  • Sidebar View: dedicated sidebar view to browse your clipboard history.
  • Full History View: specialized tab view for managing and searching extended history.
  • Quick Paste: "Quick Switcher"-like interface to rapidly find and paste clips.
  • System Clipboard Integration: Optionally tracks and pins the current system clipboard content.
  • Configurable: control history limits, duplicate handling, and more.
  • Vim Support: Works with Obsidian's Vim mode.

Installation

Manual Installation

  1. Download the main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css files from the latest release.
  2. Create a folder named obsidian-clipflow in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ directory.
  3. Move the downloaded files into that folder.
  4. Reload Obsidian and enable "ClipFlow" in the Community Plugins settings.

Development

If you want to build the plugin yourself:

  1. Clone this repository.
  2. Run npm install or pnpm install to install dependencies.
  3. Run npm run build to build the plugin.

Usage

Commands

  • Quick paste from history: Opens a modal to search and paste from your history.
  • Toggle sidebar history view: Opens or closes the clipboard history sidebar.
  • Open full history view: Opens the detailed history management tab.
  • Edit clipboard: Opens your clipboard history as a markdown file for easy editing. Entries are separated by ---. When you close the file, changes sync back to history.
  • Clear clipboard history: Removes all regular history entries.

Views

  • Sidebar: Shows recent clips. Click a clip to paste it into your active note.
  • Full History: Provides a search bar and list of all clips. Allows deleting individual entries.

Settings

  • Clipboard Polling Interval: How often to check for system clipboard changes (default: 1000ms).
  • History Limit: Maximum number of items to keep.
  • Allow Duplicates: Whether to store duplicate copies as new entries.
  • Track System Clipboard: Enable/disable monitoring of external copies.
  • Pin System Clipboard: Keep the current system clipboard content at the top of the list.
  • Auto-delete after paste: Remove an entry from history after you paste it.
  • Ribbon Button Action: Choose whether the ribbon icon opens the sidebar or the full view.

License

MIT

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