PasteDaemon

Your clipboard, with a shell in it

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Hi Product Hunt, I built PasteDaemon because every clipboard manager I tried only stores what you copied, and I wanted one that *does something* to it. **Automatic transforms on copy.** A trigger is a set of conditions plus a chain of actions, and it fires the moment something lands on the pasteboard. Copy a tracked marketing URL and what arrives in the next window is already clean. Copy minified JSON and it comes back pretty-printed. No keystroke in between, no window to visit. Only the JSON one is armed on a fresh install — the other two ship disabled, because rewriting a stranger's clipboard uninvited is a bad first five minutes. **The search bar is a small shell.** `$1` is your last copy, `$2` the one before it: $1 | trim | upper $2 | totz PST # Convert a time mailed to you in Eastern to Pacific $subtotal + $shipping # decimal, so 0.1 + 0.2 is 0.3 The result previews live as you type, before you run it. Anything you work out by hand can be promoted to a trigger, and a filter can be a shell script, which is the escape hatch for everything I didn't think of. ** Lists ** - Lists are paste stacks taken to the next level. Lists are a sequence of clippings that you can paste back one at a time. After you paste the first item, the second item is automatically loaded into the clipboard. If you have a web form you fill out often, you can put the values you frequently use and paste them in quickly. Lists can even be generated dynamically at runtime, allowing you to create different values. The rest is what everyone else has: automatic OCR, pinning frequently used items, history search, variables/snippets. Since it's a background app that watches your clipboard, the part I'd want to know: no account, no sync, no telemetry. Items marked concealed (stuff from 1password) are never recorded. Licences are verified offline, so activating one contacts nothing. The only network request the app can make is an update check, against a feed you configure. Free and unrestricted while it's in beta. From 1 November the automation needs a $19.99 licence and the clipboard manager — history, search, OCR — stays free forever. $4.99 until then if you want to lock it in, and that's a full licence with every future update. macOS 14+, Apple silicon and Intel. Happy to answer anything.