Pulse Island

A living island for your Mac's notch

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The copy-time classification is the part I keep thinking about. Deciding what a thing is once, at capture, so the row can carry a swatch or a thumbnail or just the host — that's the difference between a clipboard history and a list of strings you have to re-read. And the guard that stops every six-digit order number turning into a color swatch is exactly the kind of detail that only shows up after you've watched it get it wrong a few times.

The deadline-vs-tick point is the one I'm stealing. Anything that derives elapsed time from a running counter quietly breaks the moment the lid closes, and it's the class of bug that never reproduces on the machine you're debugging on. Good that the battery and calendar cards already work that way.

Native Swift, no account, history that dies with the process. This is put together the way I wish more Mac utilities were.

the memory-only clipboard history with the ConcealedType skip is a genuinely good default, not just a privacy footnote. question that's more about my own setup - I mostly work with an external monitor as primary and the laptop lid open off to the side. does the island only live on the built-in display where the actual notch is, or can it show up on an external screen too for people who rarely look at the MacBook screen itself?

The clipboard card is the clever bit for me. Showing a color swatch, image thumbnail, or cleaned host instead of raw clipboard text makes the notch feel genuinely useful.

the unnotarized heads up is honest of you to call out upfront, but it's also exactly the kind of prompt that scares off non-technical users, especially for something polling the clipboard continuously in the background. is notarizing it on the roadmap, or is that waiting until after the free period ends on the 28th?

Great launch, what're advantages so that I have to switch from others? I'm using boringnotch

Great launch! Do you guys filter on content? Or is the ConcealedType check the only line? Could it be that a fair number of copies that shouldn't be in history still slip through the 2Hz poll?

Congratulations on your launch, @aayu5hgit ! I really like the copy history functionality. On macOS, there's usually no built-in way to keep the last n copied items, so this is a really useful feature.

The UI looks great, and I like the way everything is categorised as well.

One suggestion: is there a way to customise the view? For example, it would be nice if users could choose which tabs to show or hide, or configure how many tabs are displayed in the notch.

Congrats on the launch, @aayu5hgit! I really like how you handle clipboard categorization. Do you plan to add a Pomodoro timer feature in the near future? Will definitely give it a try!

The clipboard filtering by type is the detail that jumps out, most clipboard managers just give you a flat scrollable list and you end up hunting for the one thing you copied ten items ago. The fixed transparent panel with SwiftUI animating inside it rather than the NSWindow frame is a smart workaround too, that's the kind of tradeoff most Electron based tools can't even attempt. Since clipboard history stays in RAM only, what happens across a reboot or sleep cycle, does it just start clean or is there any short lived persistence.