Ask HN: Useful Keylogger for Recall

3 points by atmanactive ↗ HN
Greetings fellow humans.

I'm looking for a way to quickly recall text snippets I typed few minutes earlier that I DIDN'T add to clipboard.

Clipboard recall tools are abundant, and they are all, more or less, working great.

But now, I am looking for the same thing on a keystroke level. In other words, I am looking for a non-malicious keylogger that could auto-split the stream of keystrokes on ENTER keycode, and/or user-adjustable timeout, and would present a list of snippets by pressing a special shortcut. From there, a simple double-click on the item would copy it to clipboard.

So, a typed text history tool of sorts.

A keyboard recall tool.

A hybrid between clipboard recall and a keylogger.

Was searching on Github, couldn't find any.

Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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I suspect any such thing would be a bit messy unless it comprehended mouse actions as well.

One might type into a box, click another, and continue typing.

Even harder is to deal with “typing replaces selection” scenarios.