Feature proposal: Reorder snippets

[kschmid]

Thanks for wonderful jumpcut!
One thing, I could imagine improves user experience further is driven by the experience that a select few of pastes I do repeatedly. (e.g., login information).
Unfortunately, this tends to migrate then towards the end of the list. A simple, but effective approach would be that, if s.th. is used as a paste, it simply goes to the front of the list again.

What do you think?

Klaus

[Sputnik1947]

Hello Klaus!

I am not the dev here so I cannot speak as to whether he would like to incorporate a feature to handle this issue you are having, but I do have a solution for your issue. There are other apps available that add a feature called snippet expansion that would allow you to always have these logins on hand instead of having to dig through your clipboard history to paste the logins in to sign-in. For example, I use TextExpander to write a snippet that has my login information and whenever I press a keyboard combination, it will fill in that login information for me. For example, to login to my email account, I get to the login screen and then type ;em and it will fill in my email address in the username field and then it presses the Tab key for me to move to the password field then it fills in my password for me. After typing ;em, I just have to click login or press my enter key and I am logged in.

This feature is much more likely to help you with keeping track of your login passwords than your clipboard is.
I recommend using TextExpander but it is not free. There is this website that lists alternative software that does the same feature as TextExpander and some of them are free. I recommend you take a look at the options and try out this different way to help you easily handle login information.
https://alternativeto.net/software/textexpander/?platform=mac

Although another solution could be a password manager like 1Password that can store your login information in a secure location and allow you to autofill it from the password manager. Or you could use it as a library to look up your login information. This can also fix your issue and improve your security by using a password manager to store login information.
I quite like 1Password but there are other options as well if you want to look at alternatives.
https://alternativeto.net/software/1password/?platform=mac

[kschmid]

Dear Sputnik,
thanks for the proposal. I use KeePassXC with jumpcut. I have hundreds of passwords (why keyboard combinations don't help), but when I pasted s.th. I tend to repaste the same information often multiple times within a day or so. This often also holds for non-passwords. But doing other pastes in between. Hence, this reordering would help as then snippets would be in the order of last use. However, it is just a small nuisance which would be easy with a minor feature and installing each time new keyboards shortcuts would not help me.

Cheers
Klaus