Clipboard Manager
Every copy you make, saved locally, searchable, and one keystroke away.
Copy something, and it's remembered. That's the Clipboard Manager: a local history of everything you copy, so nothing is ever lost to the next ⌘C.
How capture works
You don't do anything. While Developers Kit is running (window open or not), every copy lands in your history automatically — text, links, colors, code, images, and files each get recognized and tagged with their type.
Copying the same thing twice doesn't create duplicates: the existing clip just moves back to the top.
What is deliberately NOT captured
Anything a password manager marks as concealed (1Password, Developers Kit's own Password Manager, etc.) is skipped before it's ever read. Transient and auto-generated pasteboard content is skipped too.
Open the palette anywhere — ⌃⌘V
The fastest way to use your history:
- In any app, press ⌃⌘V.
- A small palette appears. Type to filter, or use ↑ ↓.
- Press ⏎ on a clip — it's now on your clipboard.
- Press ⌘V to paste it.
The palette never steals focus from the app you're in — you stay exactly where you were typing.
The menu bar quick panel
Click the Developers Kit icon in the menu bar for a mini panel of pinned + recent clips. One click copies.
The library (the full view)
Open the Clipboard tool in the app window for the full library:
- Search everything — even text inside screenshots: images you copy are OCR'd locally, so you can find that error message screenshot by typing part of the error.
- Pin important clips — pinned clips stick to the top of the quick panel and never expire.
- Combine & Copy — select several clips (⌘-click), then combine them into one clip. Three copied URLs become one pasteable list.
- ⏎ copies, Space shows details, ⌫ deletes.
Sensitive data detection
The app recognizes things that look like secrets — AWS keys, API tokens, GitHub tokens, private keys, credit card numbers, PASSWORD= lines — and, depending on your setting, either:
- skips them (never saved to history), or
- flags them with a "sensitive" badge so you know to handle them carefully.
Retention — history that cleans itself
History keeps the newest N clips (you choose how many). Older, unpinned clips are purged automatically. Pinned clips are never purged. "Clear history" also keeps your pinned clips — clearing means clearing the noise, not your saved stuff.
Everything is local
History lives in a local database on your Mac. Images are stored as local files. Nothing syncs anywhere.