Description

Anamnesis is a clipboard manager. It stores all clipboard history and offers an easy interface to do a full-text search of the items of its history.

Usage

I use xbindkeys to create a keyboard shortcut.

"anamnesis-browser"
Mod4 + c

That won't work on wayland, so use your distro's configuration options.

Installing on Linux

Easily

# First install system dependencies (see Dependencies section below)
# Then:
pipx install --system-site-packages git+https://github.com/oneyb/anamnesis

Manually

The recommended manual installation has three steps:

1. copy the command-line to the system path
2. install the anamnesis daemon in the session start-up
3. create a keyboard shortcut to the graphic interface

Specifically:

1. Create a symbolic link named 'anamnesis' in the system path, pointing to anamnesis.py, for example:

   sudo ln -s /path/to/anamnesis.py /usr/bin/anamnesis

2. Configure the following command to be executed on session start-up (System -> Preferences -> Session Apps):

   anamnesis --start

3. Configure a shortcut to the graphic interface (System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts):

   anamnesis --browse

Command line

Usage: anamnesis [options]

Options:
  --version            show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --start              starts anamnesis daemon
  --stop               stops anamnesis daemon
  --restart            restarts anamnesis daemon
  -b, --browser        opens anamnesis browser with clipboard history
  --cleanup            optimize database and limit the number of elements
  -l N, --list=N       prints the clipboard history last N values
  --filter=KEYWORDS    use keywords to filter the clips to be listed
  -a CLIP, --add=CLIP  adds a value to the clipboard
  --remove=ID          removes the clipboard element with the given id
  --brief              print only a brief version of long clipboard elements

Examples:

Starts the graphical user interface:

anamnesis --browser
# alternatively, if using easy installation
anamnesis-browser

Starts the anamnesis daemon:

anamnesis --start
# alternatively, if using easy installation
anamnesis-daemon

Stops the anamnesis daemon:

anamnesis --stop

List the last 20 clipboard items:

anamnesis --list=20

List the last 5 items in the clipboard the has the keywords 'my' and 'search':

anamnesis --list=5 --filter="my search"

Adds a clipboard item (same as copying to the clipboard if the daemon is running):

anamnesis --add="hello, clipboard!"

Dependencies

• python3 (>3.5)
• sqlite3
• python3-gi
• gobject-introspection
• libgirepository-2.0-dev

# Debian 13 (maybe Ubuntu)
sudo apt install libgirepository-2.0-dev gobject-introspection

# Fedora/RHEL
sudo dnf install python3-gobject-devel gobject-introspection-devel gtk3-devel

# Arch
sudo pacman -S python-gobject gobject-introspection gtk3

Configuration

Anamnesis will search for configuration files in the $XDG_DATADIRS and $XDG_CONFIGHOME directories. It defaults to:

• /usr/share/anamnesis/anamnesis.cfg

• ~/.config/anamnesis/anamnesis.cfg

Authors

Written by Fabio Guerra <fabiowguerra@users.sourceforge.net>

Ported to Python 3 by Brian Oney

TODO Issues

• Configure GUI window to be pretty again
  • file:anamnesis/browser.py::#%20def%20apply_treeview_configuration(treeview):