Improving history capacity
- Set capacity for gigabytes like 5gb/10gb/15gb, not only week/month/year
- Set history capacity for file extensions (for instance, remove all images and videos for week, zip files for 1 day, other for default set)
I would love to see that
Yes, please make it possible to purge files easily. Like Alfred does for example; you can choose for how long files are kept.
Copying videos/images would quickly use a lot of iCloud space.
Love this idea. What would be extra amazing is the ability to cull similar items or versions of the same thing. Or to automatically group them the clipboard history 🤩 I usually don’t need every version of an image I’m tweaking, sharing, tweaking, sharing, rinsing, repeating, etc. The extras take up a lot of space. Meanwhile, there have been many times when I wish I could find that random message I copied 8 months ago but didn’t think I’d need to pin. Every day, so many people tragically fall prey to the “I’ll totally remember where that came from if I ever need it” phenomenon. I have pretty serious working memory problems, so my loooong Paste history has saved my butt more times than I can remember (for what that’s worth 😂). It would be nice if I didn’t have to be so careful about how big it gets.
ETA: Being able to save filtered views would work in a pinch. I do that with Readwise Reader, where I set up “quick delete” filters for certain feed items. it calms down the barrage of information from the highly prolific feeds, like newspapers. They get sorted out, and I go through and delete right when I open the app. For example, I’m in Philly and don’t like sports, so I have a “quick delete” filter for the Inauirer that catches all the sports terminology and team/player names, letting through only the ones where the title contains “Gritty” and “Phanatic.” It’s a little clunky, but it works in lieu of a typical multi-select feature.
This is exactly why I came here. I love Paste but something is taking up 5GB of space in Paste, which then hogs up that much space on my phone. So I’d like to be able to purge files of a certain size.