Getting started
Copy Sessions: what you copied in one sitting
A coding sprint or a research dig, grouped for you without setting anything up.
What it does
Your history is one long chronological list, which is exactly wrong when the thing you want is “everything from that bug hunt on Tuesday”. Copy Sessions groups your clips into sittings and labels each one by the app you used most, so the shape of your day is visible.
Why it needs no setup
Sessions are derived from clips that are already in your history. ClipBuddy is not recording anything extra, and it is not watching your apps. It is grouping timestamps.
Saving a session
Most sessions are noise and should stay that way. Save the ones that are not, for example the research for a piece you are still writing. A saved session is a view onto your clips, so saving one does not duplicate or move anything, and deleting a clip still deletes it.
Tips
- Pair sessions with Show in timeline from search. Search finds the clip, the timeline shows the context around it.
- If a session looks wrong, remember the split is time based. A long lunch inside one task will split it in two.
Reopen a past working session
- 1 Open sessions
Open the picker with ⌘⇧V and switch to your sessions. ClipBuddy has already grouped your history for you.
- 2 Pick the sitting
Sessions are split whenever you step away for more than half an hour, and each is labelled by the app you used most, so a coding sprint looks different from a research dig.
- 3 Copy anything back
Open a session to see everything you copied during it and copy any of it back to the clipboard.
- 4 Keep the good ones
Save the sessions worth keeping. Saving never touches your history, so nothing is moved or deleted.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to start and stop a session?
No. Sessions are pure grouping of clips you already have. There is nothing to set up and nothing extra is captured.
What decides where one session ends?
A gap. Step away for more than half an hour and the next copy starts a new session.
Can I get from a search result to its session?
Yes. Choose Show in timeline on any result to jump to the moment you copied it and see what came before and after.
