How it works
- Choose what counts: anything, text, a web link, an image, or files, and optionally a text pattern.
- Content that a password manager marks as private never sets it off.
- Copies made by KeyRoutines' own Set clipboard steps are ignored unless you ask for them, so routines can't loop on themselves.
- The routine is told what kind of thing was copied but not the text itself; read it with Get clipboard when you need it.
- Nothing runs in the background while no routine with this trigger is turned on.
Routines that use it
Auto-open video links
When a YouTube link is copied, Open URLs opens it in a separate browser window.
Save every screenshot
When an image is copied, Get clipboard saves it as a PNG in a screenshots folder.
Clean pasted text
When text is copied, Get clipboard reads it, Replace text strips tracking parameters and Set clipboard puts the clean version back.
Settings
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Content | Only when this is copied: anything, text, a web link, an image, or files. |
| Pattern | Only when the copied text matches this (leave empty for any text). |
| Match byadvanced | How the text is compared with the pattern. |
| Case sensitiveadvanced | Upper and lower case must match. |
| Include routinesadvanced | Also when a routine's Set clipboard step changes it. |
Questions
- Will it react when I copy a password?
- Not from password managers that mark their copies as private, which most do. Those copies are skipped entirely.
- How do I only react to copied links?
- Set the trigger's content to web link. It then fires only when a single http or https address is copied.