Voted. The hold-to-open gesture is the right call; a separate window would make it a thing you forget exists.
A clipboard history you can search
Hold the paste shortcut a beat longer and get the last fifty things you copied, searchable, with images.
I copy a dozen things an hour: a phone number, a hex color, a paragraph I moved. Losing the one before last is the small daily tax every system charges.
Hold the paste key for half a second and a small list appears. Type to filter. Images and files show as thumbnails. Nothing leaves the machine; it is a list in memory with an optional pinned set on disk.
Status
PlannedPlanned, which means a maintainer agreed it should happen and it is on the roadmap in the Next lane, targeting 1.6. See it on the roadmap. Votes and any attached bounty decide how fast it moves from there.
There is a bounty on this
Fifty items, searchable, images included, nothing leaves the machine.
Discussion
96 comments, oldest firstPlease include colors as swatches in the list, not just the hex string. Half of what I copy all day is a color.
Marking this planned. The fifty-item cap and the local-only rule are both part of the plan; anything that syncs the clipboard between devices is a separate idea and would need its own permission prompt.
Local only is exactly what I wanted. Thank you.
Backed the bounty. The pinned set on disk is the part I care about most.