Buffer 2.0: The Tags, Bookmarks & Auto-Update Release

🏷️ Custom Tags & Filter Autocomplete

Organize your clipboard history with a new color-coded tagging system.

• Add Tags on the Fly: Highlight any history item and press ⌘T to add a tag.
• Tab-Completion: Suggests existing tags as you type, allowing you to hit Tab to auto-complete.
• Smart Filter Autocomplete: Type # in the search bar to view existing tags and autocomplete them.
• Quick Filter Controls: Tap a tag chip to instantly filter by it, and clear it easily with backspace or by clicking the close button on the filter bar.

🔖 Bookmarks & Eviction Protection (⌘B)

Keep important items safe from deletion without altering your history order.

• Protected Status: Pressing ⌘B flags an item as a Bookmark. Bookmarked items are marked with a gold badge and are protected from eviction when the clipboard limit is reached.
• Chronological Alignment: Unlike Pins (which stay anchored at the top of the list), Bookmarks remain in chronological order but cannot be auto-deleted.

🔄 Secure Auto-Updates & Post-Update HUD

Buffer now keeps itself up to date securely and seamlessly.

• Launch Checks: Buffer automatically checks for updates on startup.
• Architecture-Aware Updates: Resolves and downloads zips matching your Mac's architecture (Apple Silicon vs. Intel).
• Strict Security: Verifies the cryptographic code signature (codesign) of downloaded versions before installation.
• Smooth Relaunch: Uses a detached script (nohup) to safely replace the app bundle in /Applications and relaunch it.
• "What's New" HUD: On first launch after updating, a native HUD toast confirms the successful update and provides a What's New → button linking directly to release details.

⏱️ Smarter Search & Filter Persistence

Avoid losing your place in history.

• 2-Minute Window: If you close the Buffer window and reopen it within 2 minutes, your search query and active tag filters are preserved.
• If the window is closed for longer than 2 minutes, the search query is automatically cleared.
• Transient UI states (like active tag input popovers or autocomplete menus) always reset on open, and the selection correctly snaps to the first visible item matching your search.

🎨 UI Polish & Settings About View

• About Section: Refined the Settings panel to include design credits to @samirpatil2000, links to ⭐ Star on GitHub, and quick access to report issues.
• Layout Polish: Optimized the alignment and size of the paste button and tag chip displays.

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⌨️ Updated Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
⇧⌘V	Open clipboard history (Global)
↑ / ↓	Navigate history items
⇧↑ / ⇧↓	Expand selection (Multi-select)
↵ Enter	Paste selected item(s)
⌘C	Copy selected item text to system clipboard
⌘P	Pin / unpin selected item
⌘B	Bookmark / unbookmark selected item
⌘T	Add tag to selected item
Tab	Autocomplete tag suggestion
⌘S	Save image to disk (for image items)
⌘⌫	Delete selected item
⎋ Esc	Close history window

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What's Changed

• [FEATURE] Tags by @samirpatil2000 in #26
• [FEAT] Feature Ux Revamp by @samirpatil2000 in #28

Full Changelog: buffer-v1.8.0...buffer-v2.0.0