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> 1. visual undo/redo. I don’t want to be surprised when I perform either command. Show me.

I'm having a hard time imagining an implementation of this feature that would be faster than "undo, check what happened, redo if undesired". I can see a need to explore the whole history (JetBrains IDEs have the local history), but what benefit do you see from previewing a single step?

> 2. visual clipboard with history. I don’t want to be surprised when I paste something. Show me. Also let me have more than one item in the clipboard.

CopyQ is a great tool that does just this, available on Linux and Windows. I'm sure there's an equivalent for Mac.

EDIT: also, not to plug JetBrains again, but their IDEs have clipboard history built in within the editor. I have CopyQ for system-wide clipboard history, so I don't bother with it, but it's there.



For browsable clipboard history on macOS, I recommend LaunchBar (https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/; docs at https://www.obdev.at/resources/launchbar/help/ClipboardHisto...). I used to use the Clipboard Plugin of the free and open source app Quicksilver (https://qsapp.com/), which worked fine but was slightly less streamlined. Some people prefer Alfred (https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/).




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