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I was tired of my clipboard becoming a junk drawer, so I built Clipboard Inbox

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I copy a lot.

URLs. Error dumps. File paths. Half a SQL query. Someone’s Slack message. A path I swear I’ll remember for “just a second.”

And then… it’s gone. Or worse: it’s still there, buried under 40 other random things I also copied.

I tried a few clipboard history tools. They all solved the first problem — “don’t lose what I copied.”

None of them solved the second problem — “don’t make me dig through landfill later.”

So I built Clipboard Inbox.

The idea

What if clipboard history worked a bit more like email?

  • New stuff lands in an inbox
  • Obvious junk can go to trash
  • Important stuff can be starred
  • Recurring patterns can sort themselves

Not a second brain. Not a cloud sync suite. Just: capture + organize, locally, on Windows.

What that looks like in practice

I leave the app open (or minimized — closing it stops capture).

While I work, copies show up as a list. Hover / arrow keys open a detail panel with the full text, line numbers, and quick actions: copy again, open in browser, open in Explorer, favorite, trash.

Then the useful part: rules.

Example:

If it starts with https:// → put it in URLs

Or:

If it contains Exception → put it in Errors

(and maybe NOT match some noisy substring)

Rules can use starts with / contains / ends with / regex, plus a simple NOT checkbox when you want the inverse.

If I change a rule later, I can re-apply it across the whole history. That alone saved me from “I’ll clean this up someday.”

The small things that made me keep using it

These weren’t in the original plan, but they stuck:

  • Exact duplicates don’t spam the list — they bump to the top
  • Favorites survive cleanup when I trim old items
  • Search covers content, comments, and tag names
  • Themes / fonts, because I stare at this thing
  • UI in English, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean (defaults from OS locale)

And everything stays local next to the exe. No account. No “please sync your clipboard to the cloud.”

Stack, briefly

Wails + Vue + Go + bbolt.

I wanted a real desktop app without shipping a browser as a side quest.

Is it for you?

Maybe, if:

  • you copy constantly
  • you’ve abandoned clipboard history apps because they became noise
  • you like local tools

Maybe not, if you want mobile sync, global hotkeys everywhere, or a full snippet manager. This is intentionally narrower.

Link

If you want to try it:
https://nejicode.gumroad.com/l/clipboardinbox

I copy a lot.

URLs. Error dumps. File paths. Half a SQL query. Someone’s Slack message. A path I swear I’ll remember for “just a second.”

And then… it’s gone. Or worse: it’s still there, buried under 40 other random things I also copied.

I tried a few clipboard history tools. They all solved the first problem — “don’t lose what I copied.”

None of them solved the second problem — “don’t make me dig through landfill later.”

So I built Clipboard Inbox.

The idea

What if clipboard history worked a bit more like email?

  • New stuff lands in an inbox
  • Obvious junk can go to trash
  • Important stuff can be starred
  • Recurring patterns can sort themselves

Not a second brain. Not a cloud sync suite. Just: capture + organize, locally, on Windows.

What that looks like in practice

I leave the app open (or minimized — closing it stops capture).

While I work, copies show up as a list. Hover / arrow keys open a detail panel with the full text, line numbers, and quick actions: copy again, open in browser, open in Explorer, favorite, trash.

Then the useful part: rules.

Example:

If it starts with https:// → put it in URLs

Or:

If it contains Exception → put it in Errors

(and maybe NOT match some noisy substring)

Rules can use starts with / contains / ends with / regex, plus a simple NOT checkbox when you want the inverse.

If I change a rule later, I can re-apply it across the whole history. That alone saved me from “I’ll clean this up someday.”

The small things that made me keep using it

These weren’t in the original plan, but they stuck:

  • Exact duplicates don’t spam the list — they bump to the top
  • Favorites survive cleanup when I trim old items
  • Search covers content, comments, and tag names
  • Themes / fonts, because I stare at this thing
  • UI in English, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean (defaults from OS locale)

And everything stays local next to the exe. No account. No “please sync your clipboard to the cloud.”

Stack, briefly

Wails + Vue + Go + bbolt.

I wanted a real desktop app without shipping a browser as a side quest.

Is it for you?

Maybe, if:

  • you copy constantly
  • you’ve abandoned clipboard history apps because they became noise
  • you like local tools

Maybe not, if you want mobile sync, global hotkeys everywhere, or a full snippet manager. This is intentionally narrower.

Link

If you want to try it:

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