Clipboard manager with favorites feature?

Question

I am looking for a clipboard manager with favorites feature. That is, I should be able to star or mark some clipboard items as favorites. These items should never be removed from the clipboard history.

I am using Diodon currently and it does not have this feature.

Answer 1

I can recommend Parcellite as it is not only a very sound and at the same time lightweight Clipboard Manager, but you can also save your "favorites" in its Actions tab.

Go to Preferences > Actions, and then enter a label for your favorite item under the Action column, and then go to Command column to simply enter your favorite text preceded by the command parcellite (For example; Action: my email address Command: parcellite [email protected])

To use your favorite text, you'll only need to press Ctrl+Alt+A and then choose its label (e.g. "my email address") from the popup menu, followed by the usual Ctrl+V, and there you have your email address instantly pasted.

Answer 2

Keepboard provides the ability to create custom groups for clipboard items. It ships with Favorites group already pre-created by default.

Answer 3

Qlipper is a simple clipboard history manager that default installed by the lubuntu desktop. It provides a "sticky items" feature, allows you to pin copied texts.

You can install it via: sudo apt install qlipper

Answer 4

CopyQ might be an answer too.

I can be installed as follows (quoting from the project's GitHub):

Debian 10+, Ubuntu 18.04+, and their derivatives

Install copyq package.

copyq-plugins is highly recommended. copyq-doc available.

Ubuntu PPA

Install and keep CopyQ always up to date by running the following three commands from the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hluk/copyq
sudo apt update
sudo apt install copyq

Here is the relevant issue about favorites: Favorites? · Issue #545 · hluk/CopyQ · GitHub