How to use clipboard history in Yoki
Yoki keeps a local history of everything you copy so you can paste something you grabbed five minutes or five hours ago. The history lives on your machine — it never syncs to a server. Here is how to open it, search through it, and pin items you want to keep.
Open the clipboard
There are two ways to open Yoki’s clipboard history, both of which open instantly without re-launching the search bar.
- Press the shortcutPress Ctrl+Shift+V from any app. Yoki opens straight into the clipboard panel, ready for you to scroll or search.
- Or type the commandPress Alt+Space to open Yoki, then type clip (or clipboard) and press Enter. Both commands jump to the same panel.
Ctrl + Shift + V — Alt + Space → clip
Search and filter
The clipboard panel has a search box at the top. Type any fragment — a word, a URL, a file name — and the list narrows instantly. Category chips along the top let you filter by type: text, links, or images. Recent entries stay at the top, and image entries show inline thumbnails so you can recognize a screenshot without pasting it first.
Pin entries you want to keep
Anything you pin stays in the list even after you copy hundreds of new items. Use pins for the addresses you paste every week, license keys, your commit-message template, or a canned reply. Unpin when you no longer need it and it will fall back into the normal history, aging out when the limit is reached.
Free vs. Pro limits
The free tier keeps your last 50 clipboard entries. Yoki Pro removes the cap entirely — store as many entries as you want, with no rotation. Pinned items remain at the top of the list.
Where the data lives
Clipboard history is stored only on your computer, under C:\Users\<username>\yoki. It never leaves your machine, not even for Pro users with settings sync enabled. You can clear the history at any time from Settings.