[HN Gopher] Maccy is an open source lightweight and searchable c...
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Maccy is an open source lightweight and searchable clipboard
manager for macOS
Author : nickjj
Score : 35 points
Date : 2022-06-24 18:23 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| cosmiccatnap wrote:
| People always say "just use alfred" but I mostly use Mac as an
| excuse to get a Unix terminal at work and don't really use or
| need a large addon like Alfred even though I can see how one
| might.
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| For me all I need is the clipboard functionality and as a
| clipboard manager maccy is the best. Highly advise people to
| install it and if they like it buy the app store version to help
| it's development.
| rcthompson wrote:
| I've occasionally been interested in playing with clipboard
| managers, but I've always been stopped by the fact that at least
| a few times a day, I copy something I don't want a persistent
| record of (e.g. a password). How do other people deal with this?
| Do you just accept that your clipboard manager will save copies
| of all your passwords? Do you exclusively use an auto-type
| solution that doesn't use copy/paste? Something else?
| jagged-chisel wrote:
| Alfred let's me delete entries from its clipboard history
| feature.
| lelandfe wrote:
| Alfred's clipboard manager lets you block remembering copies
| from certain apps - for me that's just 1Password.
|
| You can also set up a short lifetime for the history, eg 24hrs.
|
| Otherwise? SOL unless you manually prune sensitive entries.
| maxyurk wrote:
| IIRC last time I tried it a couple of years ago it had memory
| issues and wasn't very scalable so I switched to clippy. Will
| give it another try
| password4321 wrote:
| https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut mentions needing _System
| Preferences - > Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility_
| access; how is Maccy able to function without it?
| nchase wrote:
| it doesn't function without it. In order to paste something
| through Maccy, you need to give it this access.
|
| Aside: even after getting this prompt, I don't see an option to
| choose Maccy in the System Preferences -> Accessibility menu,
| hmm...
|
| PS: I'm a huge Flycut fan - clipboard management massively
| improves my life, and it's the best clipboard manager that I've
| found.
| smoldesu wrote:
| Klippy is an open source, lightweight and searchable clipboard
| manager built-in to KDE!
| szastamasta wrote:
| Not sure about Maccy, but I've been using ,,Copy'em"
| (https://apprywhere.com/ce-mac.html) for last few years and been
| really happy with it. I highly recommend it if someone is looking
| for something like this.
| chris_st wrote:
| I like iClip [1] for this purpose, for one substantial reason:
| You can use the "left-arrow" icon on each history box to past the
| _unstyled_ (that is, plain text with no fonts, colors, sizes,
| etc.) version of whatever text is in that box.
|
| 1: http://iclipapp.com
| zenlf wrote:
| How would this kind of software interact with a password manager?
| If I ever copy my password, will it be stored in an insecure way
| somewhere?
| zzkt wrote:
| "By default Maccy will ignore certain copy types that are
| considered to be confidential or temporary." RTFM
| oangemangut wrote:
| as a user of Maccy, yes anything you put on the clipboard will
| be an entry in plain text. Maybe there is a way to do a
| 'secure' copy with Maccy but I'm not using it so I can view my
| passwords via the buffer.
|
| edits: I guess this is only the case when you copy the plain-
| text. Seems there are event types associated with the copied
| target that Maccy will ignore if it believes it is a
| 'confidential type' Check the GitHub README
| knighthack wrote:
| I've used Ditto on Windows which was really good.
|
| But I had to move to using a Mac and Linux ecosystem. I found and
| adopted CopyQ, which then became my main clipboard manager, and
| which then supplanted Ditto as my clipboard of choice. I highly
| recommend CopyQ. It's great.
| alsko wrote:
| I have been using Flycut for many years, seems very similar.
| https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut/
| kitsunesoba wrote:
| For a good paid option, Alfred[0] includes a pretty robust
| clipboard history manager along with a ton of other features, all
| in an extremely lightweight (15.6MB disk size/~40MB memory)
| package. You need the paid Power Pack for to use that feature,
| but both single version and lifetime upgrade licenses are cheap.
| I went for the lifetime upgrade option which so far has worked
| out to $12/year and improves in value each year.
|
| [0]: https://www.alfredapp.com
| defulmere wrote:
| LaunchBar[0], which predates Alfred but is similar in function,
| also has a fantastic searchable clipboard manager which
| includes a feature that I've not been able to find in any other
| clipboard manager: a push/pop stack.
|
| With this feature you can, for example, copy a bunch of
| different items from a web page on to the stack, then paste
| them sequentially in a web form and pop them from the stack so
| that they're no longer in the clipboard history. With this
| workflow there's no hopping back and forth between pages, you
| do all of the copying at once in one place and all of the
| pasting at once in the other. It all happens via keyboard
| shortcuts, no interaction with the LaunchBar UI at all.
|
| This feature is what's been keeping me on LaunchBar for almost
| 15 years now. Alfred looks great, but without this push/pop
| feature in the clipboard manager I'd have a hard time
| switching.
|
| [0]: https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html
| Hamuko wrote:
| I think I've spent PS30.80 on Alfred during the last 11 years,
| so I'm doing less than three quid a year. It's basically one of
| the first things I always install on a new Mac. Never needed a
| separate clipboard manager because of it either.
| mjmsmith wrote:
| I use Alfred, but having tried at least a dozen clipboard
| managers, Paste[1] is still my favorite (mainly for the way it
| handles presentation and searching of saved clips).
|
| [1] https://pasteapp.io
| mattio wrote:
| I tried paste, but it is too much in your face for my taste.
|
| Would love something like the clipboard manager from the
| JetBrain suite as a global clipboard manager.
|
| Will give Alfred a try, thanks!
| kitsunesoba wrote:
| Will definitely give it a shot, very polished looking. Always
| a treat to see Mac apps like that.
| droopyEyelids wrote:
| this is a great solution and gives you a lot of options for
| scripting your Mac.
| shadeless wrote:
| I've been using CopyQ for years on Linux, macOS, and Windows,
| highly recommend it - https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/
| monkey_monkey wrote:
| Raycast has a decent clipboard history and snippets manager.
| Normille wrote:
| I've been using Maccy for about a year now, after Quicksilver
| inexplicably decided to stop working on one of my comps. Even
| though subsequent updates have fixed Qucksilver, I still keep
| Maccy around for the clipboard features. So much more user-
| friendly than Quicksilver's were.
|
| So thanks for creating Maccy and double thanks for making it
| free!
| leokennis wrote:
| If you're on Windows, can wholeheartedly recommend https://ditto-
| cp.sourceforge.io
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