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Notes on clipboard history, the awkward corners of the Chrome extension APIs, and keeping your data where you put it.
- Workflow
Five clipboard habits worth stealing
Practical ways to use a clipboard history: gathering research before writing, keeping snippets to hand, batching form fills, and turning messy copies into structured fields.
Read - Engineering
Why clipboard extensions miss copies (and how to catch them all)
A Chrome extension cannot catch every copy with one API. Here are the three separate paths a clipboard manager needs — the copy event, an offscreen reader, and a focus fallback — and why each one exists.
Read - Privacy
What your clipboard manager can see
A clipboard manager reads everything you copy, including passwords and private messages. Here is what to check before installing one, and which permissions actually matter.
Read - Guide
How to see clipboard history in Chrome
Chrome has no built-in clipboard history. Here is what the browser actually keeps, what Windows and macOS offer at the OS level, and how to get a searchable history inside the browser itself.
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