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Clipboard

Clipboard History and Paste As in one place, with a switch for each and one that stops all clipboard tracking.

Clipboard History keeps what you copied so you can paste it again. Paste As shows what the clipboard can become before you paste it. They share one key: tap it for the history, hold it for Paste As.

What's here #

  • Use the clipboard features: the master switch. Turn it off and Switchboard stops watching the clipboard. Nothing is recorded, nothing reads the pasteboard, and Clipboard History and Paste As are off. History stored earlier stays on this Mac until you use Clear Stored History…, which deletes every copy, pinned ones too.

  • Keep a clipboard history: turns the list of past copies, its panel, key and menu item on or off. Off stops recording as well.

  • Hotkey (Clipboard History): opens the panel from any app. Control Option Command V is the usual key. Record a new key, or choose None; the Clipboard History item in the menu bar still works.

  • Use Paste As: turns the Paste As panel on or off.

  • Hotkey (Paste As): shown only while Clipboard History is off. Then Paste As can have a key of its own. With the history on, hold the Clipboard History key instead.

  • Paste with AI uses: On-device only keeps the clipboard on this Mac and handles about 4,000 tokens. Cloud when needed uses your cloud model for longer text and shows its cost.

Tricks #

  • Tap the Clipboard History key to open the list. Hold it for about a third of a second to open Paste As. The hold time is the palette's, under Settings › Advanced.

  • In the history, type to search. Add @safari (any app name) to show only what was copied in that app.

  • Select a copy and press Command-K to see the macros that can act on it.

  • In Paste As, Return pastes the selected row and Command-Return copies it. Command-1 to Command-9 pastes that row at once.

  • Type an instruction such as "as a bullet list" or "in French" in Paste As and AI does it. Tab jumps to that line.

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