TaxClip

A modern clipboard manager for Windows — capture text, images, files, and more, with smart cards, privacy controls, encryption, and a system-tray workflow.

Built with Python 3.10+ and PySide6. Developed by Miyotu.

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Features

• Clipboard history — automatically saves text, HTML, and images to a local SQLite database
• File & folder clips — captures Explorer copy paths (CF_HDROP); open, reveal in folder, or copy the path
• Smart cards — detects URLs, JSON, hex colors, emails, phone numbers, code, Markdown, Base64, and file paths with context actions
• Compact panel — Win+V-style keyboard-first panel positioned above the taskbar
• Secret mode — pause capture for 5/15/30 minutes (or until restart), exclude apps, auto-clear sensitive clipboard content
• Pins, tags & collections — organize clips; save items as snippets
• Snippets, todos, drawings & reminders — productivity tools beyond plain clipboard history
• OCR & screen tools — extract text from images; snipping / capture helpers
• Security — optional encryption, sensitive-data masking, Windows Hello / TOTP gates, DPAPI-protected secrets, update SHA-256 verification
• Sync — optional Google Drive sync
• Themes & tray — system tray app, launch at Windows startup, multiple themes

Requirements

• Windows 10 or later
• Python 3.10+

Install & run

pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

On first launch, “Start with Windows” is enabled (you can turn it off from the tray menu).

Hotkeys

• TaxClip tries to register Win+V first. If Windows reserves that shortcut, it falls back to Ctrl+Shift+V and shows a tray notice.
• Change the hotkey in %AppData%/TaxClip/settings.json ("hotkey"), then restart. Examples: windows+v, ctrl+shift+v, alt+space.
• Running as administrator can help on some systems where global hooks are restricted.

Useful panel shortcuts (when the history UI is open): ↑/↓ select, Enter copy, Ctrl+Enter paste, Delete, Ctrl+P pin, Ctrl+F search, Alt+1–9, Tab, Esc.

Usage

• TaxClip runs in the background and shows a tray icon.
• Press the global hotkey to open history (full window or compact panel).
• Hover a card for copy, enlarge, favorite, and delete; click a card to copy (window hide behavior is controlled by "hide_after_copy" in settings).
• Use the search bar to filter text/HTML content.

Data locations

Data	Path
Database	%AppData%/TaxClip/taxclip.db
Settings	%AppData%/TaxClip/settings.json

Startup registration: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run → TaxClip.

Build (EXE)

pip install pyinstaller
build_with_runtime_dir.bat

• Uses --noconsole to hide the console window.
• App icon is generated from assets/icons/logo.png → assets/icons/logo.ico.

License

See LICENSE.md. Personal and educational use only; commercial use is not permitted. Attribution to Miyotu is required.

Links

• Website: https://miyotu.com
• Releases: GitHub Releases