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A clipboard manager is an absolute have to have. Having the last 40 or so clibboard items available to me instinctively has increased my productivity and the speed at which i can do anything on a computer. I use the one that is part of the Alfred power pack, but there are plenty of others out there. https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/

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For Windows, there's Ditto (http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/). It's insanely useful for slinging text around, like when you're copy-pasting a ticket number into several different places in-between other bouts of work that need the clipboard. Also useful for saving small URL/code/SQL snippets and retrieving them with a quick incremental search.

This seems at odds with a password manager, though.

It's not about remembering passwords, it's for code snippets or URLs. I also find these invaluable.

What I mean is, I'm constantly copying passwords to my clipboard, both to generate them and to input them. This is an app which remembers clipboard history. That means all my passwords will be stored in this history, which makes it incompatible for my use case.

The documentation is less than clear about whether it can ignore apps:

By default, Alfred ignores popular password applications like the macOS Keychain Access and 1Password, so that you don't inadvertently copy a password to your clipboard.

I don't want to prevent apps from copying to my clipboard. I want to prevent Alfred from storing the history when I copy from a specific app (my password manager).

I may as well just try it and find out, though.

My bad, sorry.

Oh, it's all good. I was mainly just wondering if anyone had any thoughts.

Not knowledgeable about this, but you raise an interesting point.

The Alfred webpage says: "By default, Alfred ignores popular password applications like the macOS Keychain Access and 1Password, so that you don't inadvertently copy a password to your clipboard."

I use CopyQ on Linux.

You can set it up to ignore copies from your password manager.

I have it currently set up to ignore KeePassX.

https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/

https://superuser.com/questions/1112970/prevent-clipboard-ma...

Alfred's clipboard manager will auto-exclude anything that's copied from 1Password. You can add more auto-exclude rules yourself too.

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