Clipon is a open source project for managing your clipboard history in a simple and efficient way.

It's useful if you want to take notes more efficiently when reading documents or web pages. It trackes whatever you copied so that you don't have to switch to another app to do paste whenever you copied something useful. The paste operation is kind of a distraction when you want to focus on reading. With Clipon, you just copy things when reading, and do paste in batch after reading.

It also helps remember what you have copied and you might later want to revisit some of them.

Install required packages first

1. PyGI

   It is not packaged in pypi, so you have to install it by youself. Depending on your distribution, the package are usually named python-gi, python-gobject or pygobject3.

2. python-dbus

   You can install it from pypi using pip tool or using package management tool of your distribution.

3. docopt

   It can be installed automatically when installing the Clipon (see below). So it's not necessary to install it by youself.

Then install Clipon from pypi

$ pip install clipon

or install from source code

$ git clone https://github.com/jinuxstyle/clipon.git
$ cd clipon
$ python setup.py install

After installation, start the daemon

$ clipon start

Then you can view the clipboard history with following command

$ clipon list

Clipon supports a number of subcommands for controlling the daemon and managing the clipboard history.

$ clipon -h | --help
Usage:
  clipon <command> [<options>...]

General Options:
  -h, --help    Show help
  --version     Show version and exit

Commands:
 start          Start clipon daemon
 list           List clipboard history
 clear          Clear history
 size           Total number of items
 config         Configure clipon
 info           Summary about clipon configuration and history
 pause          Pause tracking clipboard
 resume         Resume tracking clipboard
 stop           Stop and quit clipon daemon
 status         Status of clipon daemon

See 'clipon <command> -h' for more information on a specific command.

You can contribute and help in various ways including reporting bugs, proposing suggestions or ideas, and submitting pull requests.

Clipon is under the GPL license.