Shortcuts
Summon with ⌘⇧V; press it again to dismiss from anywhere. The overlay never takes focus from the app you copied in, so paste-back always has a target.
Keys belong to whichever of the two zones holds focus — the strip or the search box — and the accent ring shows which. Bare keys act in the focused zone; ⌘-chords act on the whole overlay.
Keys by zone
KeyIn the stripIn the search box
any letter/digit
Focuses the box, lands that character in the query
Types
← / →
Move selection (retargets an open Case)
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↑
Focus the search box, caret at the end
—
↓ / ⏎
⏎ pastes the selected clip
Leave the box, keeping the query
Space
Open/close the Case on the selected clip
Types a space
Tab / ⇧Tab
Next / previous board
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Home / End
Jump to the first / last clip
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⌫
Edit the query's last character (never deletes a clip)
Deletes
esc
Peel back one layer (discard prompt → edit mode → Case → query)
Same
⌘1–⌘9
Paste the Nth visible clip — badges appear while ⌘ is held
Same
⌘C
Copy the selected clip without pasting
Copies text
⌘⌫
Delete the selected clip
Delete to line start
⌘N
Open the Edit window with the note focused
Same
With the mouse
Single clickSelects
Double clickPastes
Right clickOpens the full menu of the same verbs, including File to Board ▸
Click on bare glassActs as ⏎
The menu bar
The menu-bar item holds Show clipppics, the Show Slips and Play Drip toggles, Settings…, Manage Boards…, Clear History, and Quit.
Not yet
Sync across devices, a configurable hotkey (⌘⇧V is fixed in code), launch at login, and user-facing retention settings. Retention runs on its defaults: text and file clips kept indefinitely, unfiled images evicted after 30 days.