The dark theme currently paints navy panels on a near-black window, and the mismatch is most of why it feels dated. Surfaces move to neutral grey so the blue only appears where it means something: selection, focus, accents.

A clip records the app it came from and then shows you its name as text. A row of real icons reads at a glance where a row of names has to be read.

Pin, copy and more, revealed on hover in the corner of a card. Right-click is currently the only route to most per-clip actions, and nothing tells you that.

Clypy already reads text out of screenshots and searches it. The extracted text itself is never shown. It becomes a section on the image, with your search term highlighted when you arrived from a search.

The tray already lists recent clips. Numbering them 1 to 9 and binding the keys turns it into a paste menu you never touch the mouse for.

Clypy can already group clips by the app they came from. Add a one-action clear for that whole view, with undo, plus an option to stop capturing from that app entirely.

Every shortcut, grouped, on one overlay, read from the same registry the command palette uses so it cannot drift out of date.

Global hotkeys are already rebindable with conflict checking. The same treatment extends to shortcuts inside the window.

The docked side panel becomes an overlay that grows out of the card you clicked. The panel stays available as a density preference, because it is genuinely better for triaging a lot of clips quickly.

Ten view kinds, plus types, labels and collections, can realistically render forty rows. The sidebar keeps five destinations and everything else becomes a filter chip above the list, reachable from the command palette.

A small overlay that appears for a moment on copy, showing what was saved and offering pin, conceal, and add to a collection. It answers the most common moment of doubt in the product: did that actually get saved?

The Paste Strip gains straightforward placement presets, top, bottom, left, right, or following the pointer, alongside the display and multi-monitor rules it already follows.

An edge swipe that pulls navigation in from the left while the current screen slides and scales behind it, tracking your thumb and settling on a spring. Collections keep their emoji and colour in the list.

The main mobile screen stacks five rails above the first clip and offers search in two separate places. It becomes a title, a search field, and your clips. Filters appear as scopes when search takes focus.

Press states, swipe actions on rows, a shared transition from clip to detail, and haptics on every committed action. One set of spring values shared by both apps, and reduced motion respected throughout.

Typing an abbreviation expands the snippet in place. Clypy already has the difficult half: templates, placeholders, fill-in forms and per-app rules. What is missing is a keystroke trigger, which is the most privacy-sensitive thing Clypy could ship, so it would be opt-in, scoped per app, and never active in a password field.

The strip appears at the text caret instead of at a fixed position. This needs the caret rectangle from accessibility APIs, which macOS and Windows can provide and Wayland cannot, so it would be offered as a choice rather than a replacement for the strip.

A small window that does one thing, find a clip and paste it, as an alternative to opening the full library.

Detecting what kind of field you are focused on and ranking clips to match, so an email field offers your addresses first. A ranking signal over data Clypy already stores, without needing to know where the caret is.

Time-based, or triggered when you return to a particular app. Suggested on clips whose content justifies it, a tracking number or a magic link, and always confirmed by you rather than set automatically.

Dates with a real calendar preview, JSON with a raw and formatted toggle over the same bytes, numbers with unit conversion, and video files with a poster frame. A type only ships with an action attached, otherwise it is a differently coloured label.

The stack menu shows progress; the icon only shows it on hover. Drawing the number into the icon means compositing it into the image on every change, and on macOS into a template mask.