Monarch’s Clipboard History allows you to keep track of everything you copy without having to worry about losing important or frequently used data such as text, images, files or links. Monarch keeps everything you copy in a searchable and editable history. To access Clipboard History, open Monarch and press TAB to Mode Change.
Use cases
This is a feature that anyone can use, but there are some very specific scenarios in which clipboard history is especially helpful: Students Researching a topic for a paper or exam, you can collect links, excerpts, screenshots and files that you can easily search through later while actually writing your paper. Developers Keeping snippets of code: Your favorite CSS classes, code output from ChatGPT, and frequently used functions all renamed so that you can find them much faster and reuse them any time you need. Designers Storing screenshots of landing pages, and web components that catch your eye, then renaming them and pasting them into a Figma project later. Anyone Storing useful links that coworkers share on Slack, links to relevant things in Google Drive, Monday.com, or Google Sheets data can be stored in your clipboard history to be more easily searchable than ever before.Using Clipboard History
Up/down arrow keys
You can use the up and down arrow keys to move through items one at a time through your clipboard history. You can also useCtrl + J to move down and Ctrl + K to move up.
If you prefer to navigate through Clipboard History using the Tab key you can do that by disabling Mode Change in Settings.
Autopaste with ENTER
While viewing an item in your history, you can press ENTER at any time to automatically paste the content into the active app you summoned Monarch over.
Recopy with ⌘ + C
Sometimes you want to copy something, but not paste it into the currently active app. In this case, you can simply press ⌘ + C and recopy the item as you normally would.
Search Filter List with ⌘ + L
Use this to see all of the available filters you have for your clipboard history, which allow you to easily find whatever you are looking for and the source you copied it from. See **Filtering Clipboard Items **below for more details.
Editing clipboard text entries
Text entries can be edited at any time. Simply hover over the item and the Edit button will appear. Click the Edit button, and the content will appear in a text box. Edit the text and hit the Save button to update the item.Delete clipboard items with CTRL + Backspace
If you want to delete an item from the clipboard history, hold CTRL and press Backspace. Be careful as this is permanent and there is currently no way to recover deleted items.
Searching clipboard history
Searching your clipboard history is as easy as typing what you are looking for into the search bar.
Filtering clipboard items
You can filter clipboard items by clicking the top right dropdown menu and selecting the type of content you want to filter for. Monarch has filters for:- Application (Google Chrome, Obsidian, etc)
- Website (Dribbble.com, Linear.app, ChatGPT.com)*
- Text
- Links / URLs
- Images
Pausing clipboard history
If for any reason you want or need to temporarily prevent copied items from being stored in your clipboard history you can press the “Pause Clipboard” (⌥+SHIFT+P). To resume recording items to your clipboard history, press the “Resume Clipboard” button.
You can also simply turn off Clipboard History in the settings.
Renaming clipboard items
Renaming clipboard items allows you to easily recall clipboard items later using names that are meaningful to you. To rename a clipboard item, press⌘ + R and enter a name.
Clipboard History Length
Find this in under Monarch Settings > Clipboard. This feature allows you to keep clipboard history from getting too large. A lot of apps allow for some form of control over how large your history can get, but they always enforce set ranges that they think are good for you. Because Monarch belongs to everyone, I decided I believe in humanity enough to let them decide exactly how large or small their clipboard can be. So you set this to to any number you like!Ignore Applications
There are some applications you never want to store copied data from. To block the application from ever storing data in Monarch’s Clipboard, you can add it to your Ignore Applications list.Blocked Domains*
Completely unique to Monarch, not even present in dedicated clipboard apps. This is incredibly useful. I don’t want to block Brave Browser, because that is my browser, but I do want to block the customer data that I copy from stripe.com. But I also want to be able to copy data from other parts of the platform such as the landing page. With Monarch I can block only “dashboard.stripe.com” and enjoy the rest of Stripe and Brave!Whitelist Mode
If you find yourself ignoring tons of applications or blocking tons of websites, you will have an easier time using Monarch’s whitelist mode than trying to manage a long list of apps or domains. You can toggle Whitelist mode individually for both apps and domains!Security
Monarch’s clipboard history is fully encrypted and cannot be read by other apps.*Supported Browsers
Here are the supported browsers that are compatible with Monarch’s advanced functionality, including Clipboard History, Superlinks and more.- Arc
- Brave Browser
- Google Chrome
- Google Chrome Canary
- Helium
- Microsoft Edge
- Orion
- Safari
- Vivaldi