06 / Clipboard
Press ⌘⇧V for a floating palette of your last 500 text copies. Search as you type, paste any item back with Enter, or pick one and ask the AI to summarize, rewrite, or format it in a tap. It all stays on your Mac, and password copies are never captured. A clipboard manager is one of the first things we install, along with the rest of our favourite Mac apps.
Stored only on your Mac · password copies never captured
New: Talk to your clipboard
Pick any copy and a row of one-tap actions appears. Format a Markdown draft for LinkedIn, clean it up, summarize it, turn it into a tweet, or strip out em dashes. Each one runs instantly against the item you selected, no prompt to write. These five ship as defaults, and every one of them is yours to rewrite.
One tap · instant · runs on your AI credit or your own key
New: Bring your own prompts
Every quick action is just a label and a prompt, and now you own both. In Settings → Clipboard, rename a button, rewrite the exact prompt it sends, delete the ones you never touch, or add your own. Turn any repetitive text task into a one-tap button, and your clipboard becomes a launcher for your own AI shortcuts.
Edit here
Give the action a name and paste the exact instruction you want sent. Routines passes your copied text in as the subject, so the prompt stays reusable across everything you paste into it.
Use it everywhere
Save, and your new button appears in the Ask AI panel above, one tap from any copy. Changed your mind? Reset to defaults brings the original five back instantly.
Still yours
The actions you write are saved locally, with no account and no sync, so the shortcuts themselves stay on your Mac. Running one sends that copy and your prompt to the model: through Routines AI, which stores neither, or straight to your provider on your own key.
Add · edit · delete · reset · all in Settings → Clipboard
Ask anything
Type a question and Claude answers right under the copy, using only the text or image you selected. Pull the action items out of a wall of notes, rewrite a paragraph, or draft a reply, then click Copy result and paste it wherever you were going. Works on text and images alike.
Ask · get the answer inline · copy it back in one click
Settings → Clipboard
Save clipboard history
Keep your last 500 text copies on this Mac.
Open history
Click to record a new shortcut.
Change the shortcut or turn capture off in Settings → Clipboard.
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Pick any item in the history and an Ask AI panel opens right under it. Ask Claude to summarize it, rewrite it, pull the action items, or answer a question about it, and the result lands inline with one click to copy it back. It runs on the AI included with your account, or on your own Claude key if you have added one.
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Press ⌘⇧V from any app for a floating, non-activating palette that holds your last 500 text copies. The window appears over whatever you are doing without stealing focus, so your cursor stays exactly where it was.
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Type to filter the list as you go, use the arrow keys to move through results, and press Enter to copy a past item back and paste it where your cursor sits. No mouse, no menu digging.
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Copied a URL? The row shows the hostname and opens the link in a click. Copied a hex color? You get a live swatch next to the code. The history reads what you copied instead of just storing a blob of text.
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Routines keeps plain text and drops formatting. Anything over 200,000 characters is skipped too, so the history stays fast, clean, and predictable.
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Copies marked concealed, transient, or auto-generated by your password manager are respected and never stored. Your secrets stay out of the history entirely.
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Every item lives in a local SQLite table on your machine. The history is never synced and never uploaded. The Ask AI panel is the one part that reaches out: the copy you ask about goes to the model, either through Routines AI, which stores neither the prompt nor the answer, or straight to your provider on your own key. Turn capture off and it stops the moment you flip the switch.
One keystroke pulls up everything you copied, searchable and ready to paste back, and ready for the AI to summarize, rewrite, or format in a tap. Stored on your Mac, with no sync and no account.
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