Anamnesis Clipboard History Manager

What is?

Anamnesis is a clipboard history manager. It stores the clipboard history and offers an easy interface to do a full-text search on it.

Download

Anamnesis is available for download on the its sourceforge page.

Installing

The recommended installation have three steps:

1. copy the command-line to the system path
2. install the anamnesis daemon in the session start-up
3. create a keyboard shortcut to the graphic interface.

There is no automatic tool to do this yet.

1. To install anamnesis command line, create a symbolic link named 'anamnesis' in the system path, pointing to anamnesis.py, for example:

   sudo ln -s /path/to/anamnesis.py /usr/bin/anamnesis

2. Configure the following command to be executed on session start-up (System -> Preferences -> Session Apps):

   anamnesis --start

3. Configure a shortcut to the graphic interface (System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts):

   anamnesis --browse

Command Line

Usage: anamnesis [options]

Options:

  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --start               starts anamnesis daemon
  --stop                stops anamnesis daemon
  --restart             restarts anamnesis daemon
  -b, --browser         opens anamnesis browser with clipboard history
  --cleanup             optimize database and limit the number of elements
  -l N, --list=N        prints the clipboard history last N values
  --filter=KEYWORDS     use keywords to filter the clips to be listed
  -a CLIP, --add=CLIP   adds a value to the clipboard
  --remove=ID_TO_REMOVE removes the clipboard element with the given id
  --brief               print only a brief version of long clipboard elements

Examples:

• Starts the graphic user interface:
  

  anamnesis --browser

• Starts the anamnesis daemon:

  anamnesis --start

• Stops the anamnesis daemon:

  anamnesis --stop

• List the last 20 clipboard items:

  anamnesis --list=20

• List the last 5 items in the clipboard the has the keywords 'my' and 'search':

  anamnesis --list=5 --filter="my search"

• Adds a clipboard item (same as copying to the clipboard if the daemon is running):

  anamnesis --add="hello, clipboard!"

Dependencies

• gtk
• python
• pygtk
• sqlite

License

This software uses the GPLv3 license.

Author

Written by Fabio Guerra (fabiowguerra [at] users [dot] sourceforge [dot] net)

Bugs should be reported on the project page.