You copy a useful paragraph, then copy a link and lose the paragraph. OGAD (Off Grid AI Desktop) gives your Mac a local clipboard history so you can bring the earlier text back. With capture active, supported copies are saved automatically while the app runs, ready to search and reuse.
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It is useful for collecting research, moving text between apps, or assembling a draft from several sources. Clipboard is a Pro feature, and its local history does not need a cloud service or an AI model.
Find the paragraph without reopening its source
Open Clipboard, type a word you remember into Search content or tags, and select the matching entry. That puts the saved content back on the system clipboard. You can then paste it into the app you are using.
For a quicker route, press Command+Shift+C from the destination app. The popup lets you search and choose an earlier copy. It attempts to paste that item into the app that was focused before the popup opened.
This workflow is in OGAD 0.0.51. It recovers entries the app already captured; it cannot reconstruct text overwritten before capture was running.
Keep useful fragments from a writing session
Imagine you are making a personal reading guide. You copy a source link, a short passage, and a heading from different windows. Clipboard history lets you return to those separate items when you assemble the document.
Check each entry’s preview before reusing it. The text may need attribution or editing for your destination even when it was copied correctly.
Tags can help group a set of clips you want to find again. Add a short label such as “reading-guide”, then search by that label. Use the Tagged filter when you want to narrow the history to items you labelled.
The app stores and retrieves the copy; it does not decide that every copied passage is suitable for publication.
Text, images, and files have different uses
OGAD’s clipboard view supports more than plain text. Capture images lets you retain supported copied images, and file-type entries can keep file references and previews where available.
| Copied item | What to check before reuse |
|---|---|
| Text or a link | The wording and destination |
| An image | That it is the intended picture and resolution |
| A file item | That the source file is still available when required |
Use the type filters and preview to find the right kind of item. Searchable content and tags do not mean the app can identify every object inside an image or read every file format.
Clipboard history is also not a file backup. Keep the actual file in a suitable storage location when you need it later.
Choose your capture and retention settings
Open Clipboard → Settings and check Capture clipboard before using the feature. The release defaults to capture on. You can switch it off to stop saving new copies, and switch it on when you want the history again.
Choose Keep history for and Maximum items to match the task. You can keep entries for 7, 30, or 90 days, or use Forever with an item cap. A short research session may not need months of retained copies.
Turn Capture images off if text is enough. This can reduce the amount of image data kept on disk.
These controls are separate from the Mac’s screen-history capture. Pausing one does not automatically pause the other.
Getting started
Use harmless text for a first check so you can verify the automatic capture and retrieval path.
- Open Clipboard → Settings and confirm capture is on.
- Copy a sentence such as “Draft idea: a quiet reading corner”.
- Copy a second, different sentence.
- Open Clipboard and search for “reading corner”.
- Select the first sentence and paste it into a blank TextEdit document.
Then try Command+Shift+C from TextEdit, search for the same phrase, and use Enter to select it. If macOS permissions or the destination app prevent automatic paste, restore the item from the main Clipboard screen and paste it yourself.
Keep the correct field focused before trying the quick popup. It is easy to paste a valid clip into the wrong place if you changed windows first.
Keep secrets out of ordinary history
Before copying a password or API key, check your capture settings. Turn Capture clipboard off if you do not want that new copy retained, and review other clipboard tools too.
Clipboard history is not the encrypted Vault. A secret copied from a vault enters the normal system clipboard and can be recorded by tools that watch it. If you also use device sync, check copied-content sharing before handling sensitive material.
Delete an individual unwanted entry or use Clear all for the history. That does not remove copies already pasted into other apps, and it is not a secure-erasure guarantee for every backup.
Recover the next overwritten copy
Download OGAD for Mac and try the two-sentence check. Once the history works, use a short tag for the next small project. You can retrieve the text you already found instead of returning to every source again.