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Pocket Clips

v0.2.3 · Self-hosted · MIT

Your clipboard history, snippets and quicklinks.

Pocket Clips keeps what you copy on your devices in one searchable history on your server: text, links, colours, images and files, each with the app and device it came from. Next to it live your text snippets with placeholders and your quicklinks, all found from one search box.

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The Pocket Clips clipboard on an iPhone: commands, a contact, a link and a screenshot, each with the app it came fromThe Pocket Clips clipboard on an iPhone: commands, a contact, a link and a screenshot, each with the app it came from

Search

One box finds everything.

Type a few letters and snippets, quicklinks and clips appear together, with the matching words highlighted. The arrow keys move, Enter copies.

A search for docker finding a snippet, a Docker Hub quicklink and three docker commands from the clipboardA search for docker finding a snippet, a Docker Hub quicklink and three docker commands from the clipboard

Clipboard

Everything you copied, kept.

Copy the same thing twice and it moves to the top instead of appearing again. Pin what you want to keep forever, filter by type, and open a clip to see where and when you copied it.

  • Text, links, colours, images and files
  • Keep clips from a week to forever, with a cap per person
  • Watchers for macOS, Linux, Windows and an iOS Shortcut
The clipboard list with a screenshot clip open, showing its preview, size, source app and Copy, Pin and Rename buttonsThe clipboard list with a screenshot clip open, showing its preview, size, source app and Copy, Pin and Rename buttons

Snippets

Text that fills itself in.

Write a snippet once with placeholders for the date, the time, your clipboard or a value to ask for, and see the result in a live preview before you save.

  • {date}, {time}, {clipboard}, {cursor}, {uuid} and {argument}
  • A keyword per snippet, expanded on the server for every client
  • Share a snippet read-only with the others on your server
Editing a meeting notes snippet with date and argument placeholders and a preview filled in with today's valuesEditing a meeting notes snippet with date and argument placeholders and a preview filled in with today's values

Quicklinks

Searches you run every day.

Save a link with {Query} in it, give it a keyword, and open it from Pocket Clips or straight from your browser's address bar.

  • /go/<keyword>?q= works as a browser search engine
  • Folders, pins and an emoji per link
Quicklinks on an iPhone: Google, Docker Hub, GitHub search, Go package docs, Wikipedia and more with their keywordsQuicklinks on an iPhone: Google, Docker Hub, GitHub search, Go package docs, Wikipedia and more with their keywords

And the rest of it

  • Keyboard first

    ⌘K to search, arrows to move, Enter to copy, and shortcuts to pin, delete or copy a snippet without filling it in.

  • An API for everything

    Record a copy, expand a snippet into your clipboard or search everything with curl and a per-device API token.

  • Each person their own

    Built-in accounts, your SSO proxy's header, or no login on a trusted network. Link titles can be turned off, so nothing leaves your server.

  • Import and back up

    Import snippets and quicklinks from JSON, export them again, and back up the SQLite database from the app.

Install

One container, one volume.

Start it, create your account, then make an API token under Settings and start a watcher on each computer, or just paste into the Clipboard page.

On a Pocket Box it is already installed and linked to Pocket Core.

Every setting in the README →

docker run -d --name pocket-clips -p 8080:8080 -v ./data:/data -e TZ=Europe/Berlin \
  ghcr.io/abjelosevic88/pocket-homelab-clips:latest

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