Clipboard history

Sidekick watches the clipboard and keeps a searchable history of everything you copy. The history survives restarts, and any entry can be pasted straight back into whatever window you came from.

It is text only. Image clips were left out deliberately: for translation work the history that matters is text, and AutoHotkey has no workable way to thumbnail and persist pictures.

Using it

The history is the left pane of the window (`), and it also has a window of its own on Ctrl+Alt+C. Both work the same way:

Key	Does
↑ ↓, PgUp PgDn, Home End	move
typing	filters the list
Enter	paste the selected clip into the window you came from
Ctrl+Enter	copy it to the clipboard without pasting
Alt+1–9	paste the first, second, third… clip straight away
Ctrl+Delete	delete the selected clip
Esc	close

Ticks. A clip you have pasted is ticked and greyed in the list. Copy a column of terms, then work down the list pasting each one where it belongs: the ticks show how far you have got. The most recent clips are also listed on the classic popup menu under Recent clips.

Pausing capture

Settings → Pause / resume clipboard capture stops recording until you switch it back on, for the moments you would rather nothing was kept. The setting is remembered across restarts.

Privacy

Three settings in settings.ini, under [Clipboard], keep the history from holding things it should not:

Setting	Does
ExcludedApps	Never record anything copied while one of these programs is in the foreground. Pipe-separated process names – the obvious use is password managers, e.g. keepassxc.exe|1password.exe|bitwarden.exe. Empty by default, so that a URL you copy out of your password manager does not silently vanish.
AutoDeleteMinutes	Discard entries older than this many minutes. 0, the default, keeps them until you delete them.
MaxItems	How many entries to keep; the oldest fall off the end. Default 200.

Everything is stored in the data\ folder next to Sidekick, on your own disk. Nothing is sent anywhere. See Settings and files.