Smart boards: boards that fill themselves
A board holds the clips you put on it. Turn on Smart and it also collects clips by itself: every clip in your history that matches its rules shows up, without being moved. Clips you added by hand stay, and you can turn Smart off again at any time.
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Make a smart board
- Open the dashboard. Next to Boards in the sidebar, click + and choose New Smart Board. To convert a board you already have, right-click it and choose Make Smart….
- Pick an icon and colour: any SF Symbol or emoji, and any colour.
- Under How clips get here, choose Smart: rules add them.
- Add rules, or start from a template like Contact Details or Work Hours. The preview shows what matches as you go.
- Click Create Board.
What a rule can check
| Rule | Example |
|---|---|
| Search or text | Contains “invoice”, starts with “INV-”, or matches a pattern |
| Kind, language, file type | Kind is Links, Code language is Shell, File type is pdf |
| Contains | An email address, phone number, street address, date or hex colour |
| Copied from app, website, page | Copied from Figma, Website contains github |
| Added to board, tag, pinned | Tag includes #work |
| Copied, on, between | In the last 7 days, on a weekday, between 9 AM and 5 PM |
| Times pasted, last pasted | Pasted at least 3 times |
| Length, lines, sensitive, formatting | More than 800 characters |
Show clips that match all or any of the rules, add exceptions to leave some out (sensitive clips, for example), choose the order, and cap how many it shows.
Save a search as a smart board
MaclipSearch the dashboard, with filters like app:Mail if you want, then click the ✦ button next to the search field. Every filter becomes a rule.
Open it from any app
Turn on Show in the Cursor Popup for any board and it becomes a tab in the ⇧⌘V panel. Press ⌃Tab to move between tabs.