Clipboard Manager: CopyQ

Introduction

CopyQ¹ is a clipboard manager with many features.

• manages clipboard history
• history in different tabs
• Store text, HTML, images or any other custom formats
• Support custom commands², like saving clipboard items to file
• vi style navigation

Basic Setup

• Enable vi style navigation in Preferences -> General
• Enable Tab Tree and Show Item Count in Preferences -> Layout
• Custom shortcuts in Preferences -> Shortcuts or in File -> Commands/GlobalShortcuts (press F6 from main window)

Add Commands

You can get many useful commands from CopyQ-Commands², or you can create your own commands following the documentation.

To add a command to CopyQ:

• copy the command code (starts with [Command] or [Commands] for multiple commands)
• open CopyQ (Ctrl-Alt-h)
• open command dialog (F6)
• click “Paste Commands” button (Ctrl-v)
• apply changes

Commands that I use:

• Save Item/Clipboard To a File: Opens dialog for saving selected item data to a file.
• Image Tab: Automatically store images copied to clipboard in a separate tab.

Key Bindings

• Ctrl-Alt-h: open/close main window, show clipboard history (customized)
• Ctrl-Alt-s: save as (customized)
• j/k: next/previous item
• Ctrl-h: previous tab
• l/Enter: copy & paste item
• Ctrl-c: copy item
• ESC/Ctrl-[: close window