Automatically Back Up Clipboard Using AutoHotKey

I wrote a script to automatically back up & sort clipboard text with autohotkey, so I’d like to distribute it.

Overview

Automatically back up copied text to a file. Also, by copying while holding shift, you can write to a dedicated file. Convenient for saving strings and checking them later.

How to Use

Select any file for the variable “filename”. It will be automatically generated if it doesn’t exist.

Code

;[autohotkey] Script to automatically back up & sort clipboard text

;shift+ctrl+c 
~^+c::

filename = C:\Users\\Dropbox\ahkmemo.txt ;any path

send, ^c
ClipWait,1
sleep 20
FileAppend, 
(
%clipboard%

), %filename%

;Return ;also write to backup.txt when disabled

;Backup
~^c::

filename = C:\Users\\Dropbox\backup.txt ;any path

ClipWait,1
sleep 20
FileAppend, 
(
%clipboard%

), %filename%

Return

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