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Clipboard
Automatic clipboard history (text, images, files) with OCR and deduplication.
Copy anything, anywhere. It appears in the Stream by the time you open Gisti.
What gets captured
- Text: plain and rich, with the source app recorded. Copied URLs are captured as plain text like anything else; there’s no separate link type.
- Images: copied images and screenshots; OCR runs automatically, so image text is searchable.
- Files: copy one or more files or folders in Finder; their path(s) are saved as a clip, titled with the filename (or a count like “2 folders, 3 files” for multiple).
How it behaves
- The clipboard is polled 5 times a second (interval configurable in advanced.yaml).
- Deduplication by content hash: copying the same thing twice moves one element up instead of creating a second one.
- History limit: set the maximum number of clips in Settings → Clipboard; the oldest fall off quietly. Favorites survive cleanup. Copied images count against the separate images limit (Settings → Screenshots → Max images), not the clipboard one.
- Source app is stored with every clip, and you can open the app it came from (⇧ ⌘ O).
Ignored apps
Add password managers and anything sensitive to Settings → Clipboard → Ignored apps. Gisti skips their copies entirely – nothing is stored, not even briefly. The picker lists every app installed on your Mac, not just ones that have already copied something.