Settings, Rules, and Keyboard Shortcuts

🔧 General Settings

Startup & System Integration

  • Launch at Login – Start Quip automatically with macOS
  • Show in Menu Bar – Display Quip in the menu bar
  • Show Dock Icon – Control dock icon visibility
  • Theme – Choose System, Light, or Dark appearance

Capture Modes

  • Automatic – Capture all clipboard changes
  • Shortcut Only – Capture only via keyboard shortcut

History & Storage

  • Retention Period – Keep history from 1 month to forever
  • Max Items – Limit history size (50–200 items or unlimited)
  • Max File Size – Limit stored file size (1–25MB or unlimited)
  • Erase All History – Delete all clipboard history

Paste Behavior

  • Paste to Active App – Automatically paste to the frontmost app
  • Plain Text Mode – Remove formatting when pasting
  • Ignore Universal Clipboard – Exclude content from other Apple devices

iCloud Sync

  • Enable/Disable – Toggle cloud sync
  • Sync Status – View current sync state
  • File Size Limits – Limit synced items based on size
  • Conflict Resolution – Handle sync conflicts manually

🧠 Intelligence Settings

Quip Intelligence

  • Master Toggle – Turn all intelligence features on/off
  • Content Processing – Normalize text, clean URLs, detect emails
  • Duplicate Prevention – Update instead of duplicating similar items
  • Link Processing – Remove tracking, fix broken links

Super Intelligence

  • Smart Filtering – Auto-filter low-value content
  • Content Analysis – Detect passwords, auth codes, random strings
  • Context Learning – Learn from your usage to improve filtering
  • Custom Sensitivity – Adjust how aggressively filtering works

🔒 Privacy & Security

Confidential Content Protection

  • Password Detection – Auto-exclude detected passwords
  • Credit Card Filtering – Block saved credit card numbers
  • Confidential Content – Detect and remove personal info
  • Temporary Data – Ignore short-lived codes and tokens

App-Based Rules

  • Ignored Apps – Never capture from selected apps
  • App Categories – Exclude types of apps in bulk
  • Custom Rules – Define specific capture or filter rules

Keyword Filtering

  • Blocked Keywords – Filter based on custom keyword list
  • Action Options – Strip keywords or block items
  • Case Sensitivity – Choose case-sensitive matching

⌨️ Shortcuts

General Shortcuts

  • Show Quip⌘⌥C
  • Quick Paste⌘⌥V
  • Plain Text Paste⌘⌥⇧V
  • OCR Capture⌘⇧2
  • Capture to History⌘⇧C

Navigation Shortcuts

  • Next/Previous Collection – Cycle through collections
  • Show Super Shortcuts – Manage shortcut library
  • Toggle Sidebar – Show/hide sidebar

Super Shortcuts

  • Enable/Disable – Toggle Super Shortcuts
  • Open Manager – View all shortcuts
  • Create New – Add a new shortcut
  • Edit Last – Edit the last-used shortcut

Customization

  • Record New – Click to capture new key combo
  • Reset to Default – Restore default shortcuts
  • Conflict Detection – Warns of system-level shortcut conflicts

🗂️ Collections

Collection Management

  • Create New – Add regular or smart collections
  • Organization – Sort, reorder, or categorize collections
  • Bulk Actions – Export, import, or delete multiple

Smart Collection Rules

  • Content Type Filters – Filter by text, links, images, etc.
  • App-Based Filters – Match specific apps
  • Date Range Filters – Filter by time collected
  • Priority Filters – Filter for high-value content
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