maCopy/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to maCopy. Format loosely follows Keep a Changelog.

[Unreleased]

Changed

• Menu-bar glyph is a clipboard with an infinity mark (template image so macOS tints it). Replaces the dark app icon that collapsed into a grey pill.

Added

• Settings gear next to Search in the picker (tray right-click is easy to miss)

Fixed

• Tray click no longer opens on mouse-down and closes on mouse-up.

Fixed

• Search queries with path punctuation (/idobkin, github.com, …) no longer hit FTS5 syntax errors and leave the picker stuck on the full unfiltered history — tokens are sanitized before MATCH
• When search IPC fails, the list clears instead of showing stale results

[0.2.0] — 2026-07-14

Added

• Configurable global hotkey (default Ctrl+`; migrates existing users off the old `Cmd+`` default, which conflicted with macOS window-cycling)
• Image thumbnails in the picker, with backfill for existing entries
• Sensitive data redaction — passwords/cards/banking previews show •••• in the list; the full value is still stored and still pastes
• Paste transforms (trim, case, collapse whitespace, pretty JSON, single line) via right-click → Transform
• Paste plain / without formatting (⌥/Alt+click or right-click)
• Copy only — right-click → Copy puts content on the clipboard without auto-pasting or hiding the window
• Color swatches — hex/rgb/hsl entries show a small preview chip
• Launch at login, wired to macOS Login Items
• docs/GUIDE.md — living install + usage reference
• docs/SHARING.md — where the app lives and how to share a build
• docs/TESTING.md, docs/LAUNCH-AT-LOGIN.md, docs/PRODUCT.md
• Visual walkthrough script (npm run test:visual) and headed test runner (npm run test:headed)

Changed

• Reliable left-click paste (mousedown instead of click, delayed window-blur hide) — fixes intermittent missed pastes
• Image paste now writes a real clipboard image instead of text

Performance

• Clipboard polling watches macOS NSPasteboard changeCount instead of hashing clipboard contents on a fixed timer — eliminates busy CPU usage while idle
• Picker list/search IPC returns truncated text previews and image thumbnails only; full content (including image blobs) is fetched lazily, only when an item is actually pasted
• Frontend refreshes on clipboard-changed / window-focus events plus a cheap latest_entry_id poll, instead of reloading all rows every second
• SQLite opened with journal_mode=WAL + synchronous=NORMAL so the UI can read while the background poller writes
• List rows are memoized (React.memo) so selection/focus changes no longer re-render every row's preview

[0.1.0] — initial

• Menu bar clipboard manager: capture text/images/files, full-text search (SQLite FTS5), multi-select, pin, paste-and-refocus via AppleScript, resizable window, dark/light mode, auto-trim history