Quickstart — Klippster docs

Open a Finder window on a folder you do not mind cluttering. These docs use ~/Projects/launch-notes.

#1. Paste the clipboard as a file

Copy something

Anything with structure works best for a first try — a few lines of Markdown from a text editor, with a heading and a bullet list in them.

Click the Finder window, then press `⌘⇧V`

A short menu appears listing only the formats that make sense for what you copied. Markdown text offers Markdown, PDF, Plain Text, Rich Text and HTML. An image offers PNG. A URL offers Web Location and Plain Text.

Choose PDF

The file appears in the open folder. Not raw # and * characters on a page — real headings, real lists, real bold, typeset.

That is the whole loop. No save panel, no untitled window to close afterwards, and the file is already where you wanted it.

#2. Copy a file out in another format

Now the other direction. Right-click release-notes.md in Finder and choose Copy to Clipboard as → Plain Text, or select it and press ⌘⇧C.

The converted content is now on your clipboard, ready to paste into a mail or a chat window. The file on disk is untouched — this reads it, it does not rewrite it.

#3. Convert a file to a sibling

Right-click the same file and choose Convert to → PDF. You get release-notes.pdf next to release-notes.md.

Same conversion as step 1, written straight to disk instead of going through the clipboard. The original stays exactly as it was.

#4. Turn on Clipboard History, if you want it

This one is deliberately not on by default. Open Klippster from the menu bar, go to Settings → Clipboard History and switch recording on.

Then press ⌘⌥V anywhere — this one is global, not Finder-only — and the last things you copied come back, searchable. Because Klippster stores the clipboard's real content rather than a picture of it, any clip in that list can do everything a fresh copy can: paste it, save it as a file in any format, convert it, or open it in the image editor.

Before you switch it on

History is stored unencrypted in ~/Library/Application Support/Klippster/history. It skips password managers and anything an app marks concealed, but treat the folder the way you would any other local file. Clipboard History covers the exclusions and the retention controls.

#What to read next

Paste, copy, convert — the rules behind which formats you are offered, and why.
Keyboard shortcuts — including why ⌘⇧V does not break Paste and Match Style in your other apps.
Formats — all eight, and which conversions run in which direction.