Multi-Format Clipboard

Blue Synergy captures all clipboard formats when you copy — not just plain text.

When you copy something from a browser or rich-text editor, the clipboard often contains multiple formats at once: plain text, HTML, RTF, and more. Blue Synergy stores all of them, so no data is lost.

What this means for you

This feature works automatically in the background — no action needed.

Format count: Each clip shows how many formats were captured. A clip copied from a browser might have 7 formats (HTML, plain text, locale data, etc.).

Richest format: The highest-priority format is tracked — so *format=HTML in the search bar finds clips where HTML was the richest available format.

Paste behavior: When you paste a clip, the content goes to the clipboard and your app receives it in the most appropriate format it supports.

Search by format

Use star-filters to find clips by their captured formats:

Filter What it finds
*format=HTML Clips with HTML as the richest format
*format=RTF Clips with Rich Text as richest format
*formats>=2 Clips with 2 or more captured formats
*formats=1 Plain-text-only clips

Tips & gotchas

  • Format data is stored silently — you don’t need to do anything to capture it.
  • Individual format blobs larger than 10 MB are skipped (rare edge case).
  • Duplicate detection still uses plain text comparison — rich-format content doesn’t affect deduplication.

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