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SCHM: Smart Clipboard History Manager

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SCHM is a modern desktop application built with Tauri (Rust) and React that intelligently manages and organizes clipboard content with AI-powered features.

Overview

SCHM enhances your productivity by automatically capturing, categorizing, and managing clipboard contents. It provides quick access to your clipboard history through an intuitive interface and smart search capabilities.

Features

Core Functionality

  • Real-time Clipboard Monitoring: Automatically captures and stores clipboard content
  • Multi-format Support: Handles text, URLs, code snippets, and images
  • Intelligent Content Classification: Automatically detects and categorizes content types
  • Customizable Retention: Configure how long clipboard history is preserved

User Experience

  • Global Shortcuts: Access your clipboard history from anywhere with customizable shortcuts (default: Ctrl+Shift+V / Cmd+Shift+V)
  • Quick Search: Rapidly find past clipboard items with powerful search capabilities
  • Compact & Full Modes: Choose between a minimal interface for quick access or a comprehensive view for detailed management
  • System Tray Integration: Always accessible while staying out of your way
  • Dark/Light Themes: Adapt to your preferred visual style

Security & Privacy

  • Local Storage: All clipboard data remains on your device
  • No Cloud Synchronization: Your data never leaves your computer
  • Minimal Permissions: Only accesses what's necessary to function

Usage Guide

SCHM integrates into your workflow with intuitive controls and keyboard shortcuts.

Global Shortcuts

Shortcut Action
Ctrl+Shift+V (Windows/Linux)
Cmd+Shift+V (macOS)
Open SCHM clipboard manager
Esc Close SCHM window

Navigation

When the clipboard manager is open:

Shortcut Action
(Up Arrow) Navigate to previous clipboard item
(Down Arrow) Navigate to next clipboard item
Enter Copy selected item to clipboard and close window
Click on item Copy item to clipboard and close window

Interface Modes

Compact Mode

  • Triggered by the global shortcut
  • Streamlined interface for quick copy operations
  • Features search bar and content tabs
  • Shows keyboard shortcut hints at the bottom

Main Mode

  • Full application window with comprehensive features
  • Access through system tray icon
  • Provides detailed view of clipboard items
  • Includes advanced filtering and management options

Content Filtering

SCHM automatically categorizes your clipboard content into:

  • Text: Regular text snippets
  • Link: URLs and web links
  • Code: Programming code and syntax

Use the tabs at the top of the interface to filter by content type, or use the search bar to find specific items by keyword.

System Tray

The application runs in the background with a system tray icon that provides quick access to:

  • Show main window
  • Hide to tray
  • Quit application

Technical Architecture

Frontend

  • React 18 with TypeScript
  • TailwindCSS for styling
  • Zustand for state management

Backend

  • Rust with Tauri framework
  • SQLite for local storage
  • Tokio for asynchronous runtime

Development Status

SCHM is currently in active development. The core clipboard monitoring and storage functionality are operational, with AI capabilities and additional features planned for future releases.

Current Progress

  • Core clipboard monitoring engine
  • Basic UI with dark/light theme support
  • Content type detection & classification
  • System tray integration
  • Local SQLite database storage
  • Global shortcut support
  • AI-powered content analysis
  • Advanced search capabilities
  • Cross-device synchronization (optional)

Building & Running

Prerequisites

  • Node.js (v16+)
  • Rust (1.65+)
  • npm or yarn

Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/schm.git
cd schm

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run in development mode
npm run tauri dev

# Build for production
npm run tauri build

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to contribute to this project.

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