This is a dynamic tool written with python which automatically captures and saves your clipboard history, including images snipped, printscreened, or copied to clipboard. All images are saved in PNG format. If files are copied, those files will also be saved as a list of strings and viewable as a part of the copy history. This efficient manager allows you to search, delete, even export history or create 'quick lists'.
Currently only supports Windows
When the program is closed with the windows 'X' button or Alt+` Hotkey, it will be docked to the system tray.
To fully quit the program, use the 'Quit' button or the tray icon menu.
"C:\Prompts\History\History.txt" is a concurrent logfile, meaning it will continue to add each new entry
that appears in the programs Clipboard History. This function can be disabled by making the file Read Only,
which can be done by ticking the checkbox in the 'Help and Hotkey's panel,
or by manually navigating to the file, right clicking and going to properties and marking as 'Read Only'.
If you wish to start a new/blank History.txt file, simply delete or rename the existing one
and restart the program, and the file will begin logging again creating a new file "History.txt".
Whenever an image is copied to the clipboard,
either using snip, print screen, or directly copying,
that image will be saved as a PNG file in C:\Prompts\Images.
Presently the installation will not allow you to continue
if you do not have a hard drive present that is assigned the letter "C:\". If you don't use a C:\,
you will need to either create a partition and label it C:\, or label a thumb drive with the letter C:\
I haven't been programming long, so i'm still working out why it windows defender falsely flags the
installer/maybe the program .exe too, the program is safe/and does not need an internet connection
- If you right click the tray icon to bring up the context menu, if you press any keys on keyboard with this menu open, program will crash
- Program may freeze initially when running on boot, it will unfreeze of its own accord if left alone, or you can just restart program
- Sometimes when saving an image to clipboard, you can get an error prompt, if this prompt occurs, it means the data failed to copy to clipboard and you should attempt to do it again (will generally work on next try).
- Program prevents the use of alt+numpbad symbol shortcuts
- If you are a regular excel user, by default excel treats any cells copied to clipboard as images, but this option conflicts with the clipboard manager image saving function and can save corrupt/blank image files that prevent the clipboard manager from starting until broken/blank images are deleted from C:\Prompts\Images -- (i think the error mentions the name of the files preventing program from starting if this occurs, but ive found it only occurs with excel/maybe google sheets too. I may try to update the program in future to prevent cell data being saved as images, but for now the only thing i'm aware of that can completely break the program is if a buggy/blank image gets saved in this context, and again, to fix, simply delete the images preventing program from opening.