Everything you've copied, right where you need it. A multi-item clipboard that compounds instead of overwrites — and integrates directly with your browser.
Overview
The system clipboard is a single slot. You copy something, you use it, and if you needed the thing before it you're already too late. Developer workflows don't work like that. You're copying a stack trace, a snippet, a URL, a screenshot of the failing state, and a config value — and you need all of them, in different places, over the next ten minutes.
Navique's Clipboard Manager turns the clipboard into a stack. Up to 50 items, every type — plain text, rich text, browser screenshots, selected page content — all captured automatically when you hit ⌘C anywhere in the app. Open the manager with ⌘⇧C, click an item to paste it, drag it to where it belongs, or right-click and choose Paste & Remove to consume it cleanly.
Why This Exists
"I'm reviewing a pull request and the diff is wrong. I screenshot the broken state in the browser, add it to my clipboard. I copy the error from the logs panel. I copy the relevant config key. Three items. Now I open the GitHub PR, paste the screenshot into the comment, paste the error into the issue, paste the config key into the fix commit message. Done in under a minute, everything still in the manager until I remove it. Nothing overwrote anything."
Compounds, Never Overwrites
Every copy adds to the top of the stack instead of replacing what was there. Up to 50 items live side-by-side — plain text, rich text, and images.
The manager shows a live preview of each item:
- —Text — truncated preview with full content written to pasteboard on paste
- —Rich text — plain text preview; original RTF preserved for paste targets that accept it
- —Images — thumbnail with source URL badge and relative timestamp
Scroll through your recent copies, click any item to paste it, and the rest remain exactly where they are.
Hybrid Capture — ⌘C Just Works
You don't need a new copy shortcut or a special action. Navique watches the system pasteboard in the background and adds anything you copy — anywhere in the app — to the top of the stack automatically.
- —⌘C on a file path → captured
- —⌘C on an error message → captured
- —⌘C on a code snippet → captured
- —Screenshot copied to clipboard → captured
The system clipboard still works exactly as it always has. The Clipboard Manager is additive. Duplicates of the most recent item are silently skipped so back-to-back copies of the same thing don't create noise.
Browser-Integrated Collection
The built-in browser has three direct paths into the Clipboard Manager.
Screenshot → Clipboard Manager — the screenshot camera menu in the navigation bar offers "Add to Clipboard Manager" alongside the standard "Copy to clipboard" for both:
- —Visible area — captures the current viewport at Retina resolution
- —Selection — drag-to-select a region, captured and added with the page URL attached
Selected text — the text.badge.plus button in the browser toolbar reads whatever text is highlighted on the page via window.getSelection() and adds it to the manager tagged with the source URL.
Every browser item arrives labelled with its origin domain so you always know where it came from.
Opening the Manager
Keyboard shortcut: ⌘⇧C — opens and closes the popover from anywhere in the app.
Sidebar button — the clipboard icon in the bottom bar, next to Brain Dump (⌘⇧B) and Settings (⌘,). A small dot indicator appears when the stack is non-empty.
The popover is 340×460 points and anchored to the sidebar edge.
Three Ways to Paste
Click to paste
Click any item row in the manager. It writes to the system pasteboard and sends a paste action to the current first responder — whatever text field or editor has focus. No extra keypress.
Drag out of the manager
Drag any row and drop it into any text field or document that accepts drops. Text items drag as plain strings. Image items drag as native NSImage objects — compatible with any macOS drop target.
Right-click context menu
Text inputs decorated with clipboard support show a Paste from Clipboard submenu on right-click, listing the five most recent items. Each item expands to two actions:
- —Paste — insert and keep the item in the stack
- —Paste & Remove — insert and immediately remove the item
Paste & Remove — Consume on Use
Every item supports two paste modes available from the manager list, the right-click context menu, and drag target drops:
| Action | Behaviour | |---|---| | Paste | Writes content to pasteboard, triggers paste, item stays in stack | | Paste & Remove | Writes content to pasteboard, triggers paste, item is removed |
Use Paste & Remove for single-use content: one-time tokens, temporary values, generated secrets, or anything you grabbed just for this moment and won't need again.
Supported Content Types
| Type | Source | Stored as |
|---|---|---|
| Plain text | Any ⌘C, browser text selection | UTF-8 string |
| Rich text | RTF-aware copy sources | RTF Data + plain text fallback |
| Image / screenshot | Browser capture, any image ⌘C | PNG Data with source URL |
Session Persistence
By default the stack clears on quit — fresh state every launch.
To enable persistence:
- —Toggle Persist across sessions in the manager footer, or
- —Go to Settings → Clipboard and toggle the same option
When enabled, items are serialised as JSON to UserDefaults. Image data is stored as base64-encoded PNG. The stack is restored exactly as you left it on next launch.
You can clear the entire stack at any time from:
- —The Clear All button in the manager header
- —Settings → Clipboard → Clear All Items
Settings also shows a live item count (e.g. "12 / 50") so you can see how full the stack is.
Capacity
The manager holds up to 50 items. When the stack is full, the oldest item at the bottom is removed automatically to make room for each new capture. The 50-item limit keeps the popover fast and scrollable without pagination.
Keyboard Reference
| Shortcut | Action | |---|---| | ⌘⇧C | Open / close Clipboard Manager popover | | Click item | Paste into focused field | | Right-click item | Paste / Paste & Remove / Remove |
Related
- —Built-in Browser — screenshots and selected text feed the Clipboard Manager directly
- —Brain Dump — a scratchpad for ideas; supports clipboard paste
- —AI Assistant — paste clipboard content directly into conversations
- —Settings — configure persistence and clear the stack