[Feature] Timed Clear of oldest item

[technobly]

As a user, for security purposes I would love to have oldest copied items automatically remove themselves from the list after a Set Time.

This fits in line with a lot of password tools that remove the item from the clipboard after a period of time.

I realize this could be annoying for non-sensitive text and passwords mixed if you want to set an aggressive time limit for sensitive info's sake. We can be smarter about not saving passwords from known apps or from password fields as well, however it also might be a good add-on to have another hotkey sequence for copy that tells Flycut to apply the Timed Clear properties to this item. CMD + SHIFT/ALT + C (user definable). Then you can have a preference option to apply Timed Clear to every item, or just those used with the hotkey.

[coreyti]

Until this is built in...

• Save the following as /usr/local/bin/clear-pasteboard and make it executable:

  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  set -euo pipefail
  
  FLYCUT_PATH="/Applications/Flycut.app"
  FLYCUT_CONF="${HOME}/Library/Application Support/Flycut/com.generalarcade.flycut.plist"
  
  if [ -d "$FLYCUT_PATH" ] ; then
    set +o pipefail
    pid=$(ps aux | grep Flycut.app | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}')
    set -o pipefail
  
    # if Flycut is running, kill it. else it will keep and persist current history...
    if [ "${pid}" != "" ] ; then
      kill ${pid}
      sleep 10
    fi
  
    # empty the Flycut history "store"...
    plutil -replace 'store.jcList' -json '[]' "${FLYCUT_CONF}"
  
    # if Flycut *was* running, restart it...
    if [ "${pid}" != "" ] ; then
      open "${FLYCUT_PATH}"
    fi
  fi
  

• Save the following as $HOME/Library/LaunchAgents/io.pivotal.clear-pasteboard.plist

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
    "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
  
  <plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
      <key>Label</key>
      <string>io.pivotal.clear-pasteboard</string>
      <key>ProgramArguments</key>
      <array>
          <string>/usr/local/bin/clear-pasteboard</string>
      </array>
      <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
      <dict>
          <key>Hour</key>
          <integer>00</integer>
      </dict>
  </dict>
  </plist>
  

• Execute: launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/io.pivotal.clear-pasteboard.plist

This will clear the Flycut history every day at midnight. Adjust the StartCalendarInterval, if you'd like a different schedule.