Clipboard manager

Author: Abdalrahmen maher (Diamond Star)
Version: 0.4
Home page: https://github.com/diamondStar35/clipManager/

This add-on for NVDA provides enhanced clipboard management, allowing you to access a history of your recent clipboard items. This makes it easy to find and paste previously copied text or content.

You can customize the clipboard size, Pin / unpin items, And a lot more. You can find it's settings under NVDA's settings, Preferences, > Settings, > Clipboard history settings. From there you can choose the saving threshold, History size, And display characters per item.

The add-on has one shortcut to open it's interface. The default shortcut is NVDA + v.

Additional options for the currently selected item can be accessed by pressing the context menu key (Applications) on a focused item.

Hot keys

The following shortcut keys work only after opening the main interface of the add-on.

Enter: Attempts to paste the selected item. If the add-on cannot find an editable text area: It will be copyed to the clipboard, And will be moved to the top of the list.
Delete (Del): Removes the focused item from the clipboard history.
Shift + up arrow: Moves the item one position up in the list.
Shift + down arrow: Moves the item one position down in the list.
F2: Edit the selected item.
Control + n: Opens up a dialog for adding a new item to the history.

Change log

Version 0.5

Added a new menu item "Clipboard history" to the NVDA Tools menu for easier access.
Implemented a new setting "Move the item to the top of the list when pasting". When enabled, pasting an item from the history will move it to the top of the list. This setting can be found in NVDA settings, under "Clipboard History Settings".
Added a new setting "Move duplicate items to the top when copying". If activated, copying a text that is already present in the history will move the existing item to the top of the history list.
Fixed a bug to prevent adding empty entries to the history, Such as when copying a file to the clipboard: There were empty entries.

Version 0.4

This version focuses on finding something in your clipboard. Thus: There is a new find feature that allows you to find anything in your clipboard, And supports regular expressions.

To open the find dialog: As usual in most applications, It's the same shortcuts used in many applications: Control + f.
Navigating between results using f3 for the next result, And shift + f3 for the previous result.
Also: Added russian translation. Thanks to "cyrmax" for contribution.

Version 0.3

This version brings new major features, Focusing on preventing users from losing their history as possible. Thus: There are 2 new features that allow you to backup or restore your clipboard history at any time, As well as also preventing accedent deletion of items. Here are the details.

There is a new menu in the context menu: "Backup" That allows you to import and export your clipboard history to any location you choose. Open the add-on's interface, Press the context menu and you should see the new menu, Follow the instructions to import or export your history.
A new checkbox setting in NVDA's settings, > clipboard history settings that allows you to show a warning before deleting an item from clipboard. It is enabled by default, You may disable this option if you don't like it by going into NVDA's settings.
From now on: You will not lose your history again when you update the add-on. There is a new directory outside the addons folder named "clipManager" Which holds the history file. Previously when you update the add-on: It overwrites the history file because the intire directory is being deleted and recreated, This will never happen again.
Updated compatibility with NVDA 2025.

Version 0.2:

Added a new feature to edit the focused item, Accessing it by pressing the context menu key on your keyboard, Or use the shortcut key F2.
Added an option to manually add items to the history for easy access later, Control + n, Or thrugh the context menu.
You can now rearrange the items in the list by moving them up or down. Use the shortcuts shift + up arrow, And shift + down arrow.
Implemented the translation feature for translating the add-on into different languages. Please contact me if you want your language to be added.
Fixed some bugs related to unicode characters not being handled correctly, Especially for none latin text.