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Using clipboarder

clipboarder is intentionally keyboard-first. You shouldn't have to take your hands off the keyboard to find and paste a piece of history.

The overlay

The clipboarder overlay is a single 880×520 window with five regions:

┌─ Search ──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 🔍  Search clipboard…              ↑↓ ↵       │
├─ Filter chips ────────────────────────────────┤
│ All  Pinned  Text  Links  Repos  Code  …      │
├─ List ──────────────────┬─ Preview ───────────┤
│ ⌘1  📄  hello world     │ TEXT · 11 chars     │
│ ⌘2  🔗  github.com/…   │                     │
│ ⌘3  🎨  #7c8cff        │ hello world         │
│ ⌘4  📁  ~/Downloads/…  │                     │
├─ Footer ──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ● clipboarder   ⌘1-9 ⌘K esc        24 items ⚙ │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
  • Search — type to filter; clear with ⌘K
  • Filter chips — narrow by content kind, plus All and Pinned
  • List — most-recently-used at the top (pinned always above non-pinned)
  • Preview — rich, kind-aware: color swatch, image thumbnail, PDF embed, music/repo cards
  • Footer — keyboard hints, item count, and the Settings gear

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