Clipwell Changelog

Both pickers dropped their stock look for one shared design language: a zinc neutral ramp with a single violet accent (the product gradient), Lucide icons everywhere emoji used to be, accent-tinted selection with an edge indicator instead of a solid fill, and a deliberate type scale. The native Avalonia picker gets a real token layer (theme dictionaries over Fluent); the web UI gets the same palette as Tailwind theme tokens. Same icons, same anatomy, same accent in both.

Before After

The redesign carries a batch of features ported from the original Windows app:

• Search highlighting — every match is marked in the previews, and the filter pills and kind dropdown show live counts that follow the search (new GET /api/clipboard/counts endpoint, scoped to the query).
• Edit content (Ctrl+E) — a non-destructive override stored in the metadata overlay: the original capture is kept, the row shows an edited tag, empty text restores it, and edited text re-classifies its kind.
• Paste as plain text (Alt+Shift+Enter) — and the default paste now restores captured HTML on Windows, so rich-text targets keep formatting.
• Offline banner — when the daemon is unreachable the pickers keep the last loaded history, show a Retry banner, and resync automatically on reconnect.
• Richer metadata — character counts, image dimensions (new imageWidth/imageHeight on the API), color swatches on color items, and monospace previews for code, colors, and paths.
• Sensitive toggling moved to Ctrl+Shift+L to make room for edit — the same chords the original app used.

Decisions are written up in ADR-0008 (design tokens and Lucide iconography) and ADR-0009 (edit overlay and counts endpoints) on the engineering site.

Clipwell gained a second face.

• Web UI — a second front-end (Solid + Vite + Tailwind v4, Bun + TypeScript), full feature-parity with the native picker, served by the daemon at 127.0.0.1:8787/app over loopback CORS.
• Tauri 2 desktop shell — the web UI as a frameless desktop app: global hotkey, tray icon, hide-on-blur, and enigo paste-back. Starts hidden and hides on blur so it never sits over your work. Verified on Windows (both themes).

The picker grew up in one milestone.

Action palette (Ctrl+K) — content-aware actions for the selected item (open in browser, copy domain, and more) via IClipAction.

Quick Look (Ctrl+Y) — a fast, full-content preview without leaving the list.

Compact / Detail view modes — Detail adds a live preview pane beside the list.

Group by date or source — inline headers above each day’s / app’s items.

Richer settings — appearance, default view & grouping, row metadata toggles, retention, and picker position — and a diagnostics window with daemon health and real picker show-cycle latencies.

Also in this milestone: a rebindable global hotkey chord, pagination / infinite scroll, source-app capture (records the foreground app at copy time, shown per row), a plugin host for external detectors and actions via PluginLoader, and MCP over HTTP/SSE — the same four clipboard tools as the stdio server, now served in-process by the daemon.

Picker filtering is now live as you type — narrowing the history without leaving the box.

The Clipwell architecture landed in one piece.

• Clipboard daemon — ASP.NET minimal API (REST + WebSocket/SSE + MCP) over a SQLite history store; one public API for every client.
• Cross-platform capture — Windows (Win32 clipboard listener, text/HTML/image), macOS/Linux (polling pbpaste/wl-paste/xclip), with a null fallback.
• Native picker (Avalonia) — pre-warmed window shown on a global hotkey (~16 ms warm show-cycle), tray icon, single-instance, paste-into-source app, image thumbnails, typed items + detectors (url / github-pr / email / jira / color / path / code / image).
• Pin / sensitive / alias metadata and picker type filters.
• Documentation sites — user-facing feature docs and an engineering / ADR site (Fumadocs static export), both light/dark with the OS preference as default.