Clipboard

Clipboard Manager

Everything you've copied, right where you need it. A multi-item clipboard that compounds instead of overwrites — and integrates directly with your browser.

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. Nothing gets lost between copies.

Module ID:MOD-CLIPBOARD-MANAGER-01
Status:Operational / Active
Deploy Env:Native App
Action:Initialise
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.

Technical Capabilities

01.

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: truncated text with the full content on paste, image thumbnails with source URL and timestamp. Scroll through your recent copies, click any item to paste it, and the rest remain exactly where they are.

02.

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 in Terminal, ⌘C on an error in the log viewer, ⌘C on a snippet in the code panel: all captured. The system clipboard still works exactly as it always has. The Clipboard Manager is additive.

03.

Browser-Integrated Collection

The built-in browser has three direct paths into the Clipboard Manager. The screenshot camera menu offers 'Add to Clipboard Manager' alongside the standard 'Copy to clipboard' option — for both the visible area and selection captures. The text-selection button reads whatever is highlighted on the page via JavaScript and sends it to the manager with the source URL attached. Every browser item arrives labelled with its origin domain so you always know where it came from.

04.

Three Ways to Paste

Click any item in the manager popover and it writes to the system pasteboard then triggers paste into whatever is focused — no extra keypress. Drag an item out of the manager and drop it into any text field or document. Right-click any text field with clipboard support to get a 'Paste from Clipboard' submenu showing your five most recent items, each with a 'Paste' and 'Paste & Remove' option. The manager stays open while you drag, so you can paste multiple items in sequence.

05.

Paste & Remove — Consume on Use

Every item in the manager has two paste modes. 'Paste' writes the content and keeps the item in the stack — use it multiple times across multiple destinations. 'Paste & Remove' writes the content and immediately removes the item from the stack — for things that are single-use by nature, like one-time tokens, generated passwords, or temporary values you grabbed just for this moment. Right-click context menus and the manager list both expose both options for every item.

06.

Open in One Keystroke

⌘⇧C opens the Clipboard Manager popover from anywhere in the app — no need to reach for the sidebar. The same shortcut toggles it closed. The popover appears anchored to the clipboard button in the sidebar's bottom bar, next to Brain Dump and Settings, and shows a small dot indicator when the stack is non-empty so you always know at a glance whether there's anything waiting.

07.

Optional Session Persistence

By default, the clipboard stack clears when you quit the app — fresh state on every launch. Toggle 'Persist across sessions' in the manager footer or in Settings → Clipboard to keep your stack across restarts. Items are serialised to UserDefaults as JSON, including image data. You can also clear the entire stack at any time from the manager header or from the Settings pane, which shows a live item count.

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