# maCopy roadmap

Living list of shipping ideas. Checked items are done (or landed in the current branch).

## Done recently

- [x] Global hotkey `` Ctrl+` `` (avoids macOS Cmd+` window-cycle); configurable
- [x] Performance: pasteboard changeCount, list previews, no full-image list payloads
- [x] Image thumbnails in the picker (+ backfill)
- [x] Reliable left-click paste (mousedown + delayed blur hide)
- [x] Image paste via real clipboard image write
- [x] **Sensitive redaction** — save passwords / cards / banking / secrets fully, show `••••` in the list; paste still uses the real value
- [x] **Paste transforms** — right-click → Transform (trim, case, collapse, JSON pretty, single line)
- [x] **Paste plain** — ⌥/Alt+click or “Paste plain” (strip HTML-ish formatting / entities)
- [x] Launch at login wired to macOS Login Items
- [x] Visible `npm run test:visual` walkthrough
- [x] **Copy only** — right-click → Copy puts content on the clipboard without auto-paste/hide
- [x] **Color swatches** — hex/rgb/hsl entries show a preview chip (Ditto/Pastebot-style)
- [x] **SQLite speed pragmas** — WAL + synchronous=NORMAL so reads don't block on writer fsyncs
- [x] **Memoized list rows** — selection/focus changes no longer re-render every row's preview

## Next up (high value)

- [ ] **Exclude apps** — don’t capture from 1Password / banking / Terminal patterns (macOS frontmost app filter)
- [ ] **Signed + notarized release** + install to `/Applications` (see [docs/SHARING.md](docs/SHARING.md))
- [ ] **Accessibility first-run guide**
- [ ] **CI** on `npm run check`
- [ ] **Default transform preference** in Settings
- [ ] **Snippets / favorites** — named, always-available text (separate from history)
- [ ] **Ignore patterns** — regex list that auto-drops or auto-redacts matches
- [ ] **Auto-delete window for sensitive** — purge redacted items after N minutes (optional)
- [ ] **Virtualized list** — if history UI grows past a few hundred rows

## Later / brainstorm

### Privacy & trust
- Encrypt DB at rest (macOS Keychain-wrapped key)
- Per-entry “never show again” / blacklist hash
- Paste confirmation for sensitive items (`Confirm paste?`)
- Clear sensitive on lock / sleep
- Don’t sync sensitive items if/when sync exists

### Capture quality
- HTML + plain dual capture with “prefer plain” default
- File lists / Finder copy
- Link enrichment (title/favicon for URLs)
- OCR on image entries → searchable text (private, on-device)

### Paste power
- Paste stack / sequential paste (next item on each paste)
- Paste as keystrokes (for fields that block paste)
- Numbered paste queue from multi-select order
- Date/time templates, UUID, lorem in snippets
- Shell-escape / URL-encode / base64 transforms
- “Edit before paste” quick editor sheet

### UX polish
- Compact vs comfortable density
- Pin board / tabs (All · Pins · Images · Sensitive)
- Drag item onto another app
- Keyboard: Tab into transforms, `/` transform palette
- Menu bar: last N items quick-paste submenu
- Sound / haptic optional on paste

### Sync & backup
- Optional Tailscale / local LAN sync between machines
- Export/import encrypted archive
- Time-machine-friendly atomic DB

### Power-user system
- Alfred / Raycast callback URL or CLI (`macopy paste 3 --plain`)
- Shortcuts / URL scheme
- AppleScript / JXA bridge

### Hardening
- Sandbox-friendly Accessibility prompt flow + in-app guide
- Crash-safe write-ahead DB
- Telemetry: none (keep it that way); optional local diagnostics export

## Non-goals (for now)

- Cloud sync through a third-party host
- Browser extension dependency
- AI “summarize my clipboard” calling external APIs by default