rosenblu1 / clippy

Clipboard Manager for Mac in the Menubar

Clippy

A simple clipboard manager for Mac in the Menubar that supports plain and rich text, html, files, and images. Clippy remembers the last 25 items you've copied, and you can pin items so they stay in the app until you clear or unpin them.

Installing

Download and open Clippy-Installer.dmg. When running the app for the first time, you'll have to right click and select 'Open' as the .app file isn't signed and I'm not shelling out ~$100 for an Apple Developer account.

CI/Pushing to main branch

There are github actions set up to automatically rebuild the Installer on push to main unless [NOBUILD] is in the commit message.

To create a new release, add [RELEASE] to your commit message. The version tag used will be the value of __version__ in clippy.py.

The pipeline is:

• ./build.sh is run, which runs python3 setup.py py2app and creates the .app file.
• setup.py imports clippy.__version__
• setup.py writes to a temp vers.txt file with this version tag to be created
• The CI-build-release.yml github workflow reads from and deletes vers.txt, then creates a tag for the version and makes a release with it!

Building Locally

Install python requirements with python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt. Running clippy.py at the command line will work, but if you want to build the project locally, clone the repo, install create-dmg (e.g. with brew install create-dmg), and run ./build.sh. This will create the installer (Clippy-Installer.dmg), as well as the bare .app file in a dist/ directory (if you don't need to distribute it and are fine to manually move the .app to your Applications folder).