u/Moist_Tonight_3997

Hey r/macapps 👋

I’m the solo developer of Buffer, a free and open-source clipboard manager for macOS focused on speed, privacy, and keyboard-first workflows.

Just released a major update with a few highly requested features:

🏷️ Custom Tags & Smart Filtering

• Add tags with ⌘T
• Autocomplete existing tags
• Filter instantly using #tags

🔖 Bookmarks (⌘B)
Unlike pins, bookmarks stay in chronological order but are protected from auto-deletion.

🔄 Secure Auto Updates
Buffer now supports architecture-aware self-updating with code-signature verification before installation.

⏱️ Smarter Search Persistence
Search/filter state is briefly preserved when reopening the window so context isn’t lost while multitasking.

Also polished a lot of smaller UX details across selection, layouts, and settings.

Current stats:

• 1150+ downloads
• 240+ GitHub stars

Developer disclosure:

• I’m the sole developer
• Personal side project
• Fully local
• No tracking / telemetry
• Completely free & open source

GitHub:
https://github.com/samirpatil2000/Buffer

Website:
https://samirpatil2000.github.io/products/buffer/

Would genuinely love feedback/suggestions from macOS power users here 🙌

I recently learned something interesting about how Claude handles long conversations.

If you reply within a few minutes, Claude can often reuse the model’s KV cache instead of recomputing the entire conversation from scratch again.

So fast follow-up replies can actually mean:

• lower latency
• fewer tokens reprocessed
• lower inference cost

But once the cache expires (~5 min), those transformer attention states may need to be rebuilt again.

Most users never notice this happening, so I built a small Chrome extension called Claude Pulse that shows a live cache countdown directly above the chat box.

It’s surprisingly useful once you understand what’s happening under the hood with LLM inference.

Curious if anyone else here tracks prompt caching / token usage while using Claude?

Github - https://github.com/samirpatil2000/claude-pulse
Chrome Extension Link - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/claude-pulse/hhjihbpkopgacncfbkdakdolkmgkdfnf?authuser=0&hl=en

Honestly, I kept wasting time launching heavy editing suites just to speed up a few screen recordings or shrink product photos before scheduling them. Every time I just needed to tweak playback, match a specific aspect ratio, or strip metadata, I was waiting on bloated rendering queues or paying for subscriptions I barely used. It felt ridiculous to need professional software for three repetitive tasks.

I decided to fix it on my own and wrote Tempo, a small macOS app that handles exactly those micro-steps. You can adjust video speed, export to whatever resolution fits the platform you’re posting to, and run batch image compression with metadata removal without the overhead of a full NLE. I’m sharing it openly at https://github.com/samirpatil2000/Tempo in case anyone wants to grab it, poke at the code, or request tweaks. It’s still pretty basic and I’m tweaking the interface as I use it for my own posting schedule.

Download link - https://github.com/samirpatil2000/Tempo/releases/tag/v1.2.0

What’s the most annoying tiny step in your content prep workflow that always forces you to open overkill software to fix?

I built Buffer because most clipboard managers still feel… incomplete.

You either get:

• history
• or power features
• but not a smooth workflow

So I’ve been iterating on something faster + cleaner.

🚀 New in v1.8.0 — Multi Paste

You can now:

• select multiple clipboard items
• paste them together in one go

Sounds small, but if you:

• copy from multiple sources
• build prompts / docs / messages

this saves a lot of friction.

What Buffer does overall:

• Clean, minimal UI
• Fast clipboard history search
• Auto strip formatting (paste clean text)
• OCR (copy text from images)
• Keyboard-first workflow
• Free & open source

Why this matters (at least for me):

I constantly copy things like:

• code snippets
• links
• prompts + image reference

Earlier → paste one by one 😵
Now → select → paste once ✅

Still early, would love feedback — especially from heavy clipboard users.

👇 Link in comments

Was getting really frustrated with Claude.

You’re in the middle of a good flow…
and suddenly you hit a limit.

No visibility into:

• how much context you’ve used
• when you’re about to hit limits
• or how much time you have left

So I ended up building a small Chrome extension for myself.

It just sits inside Claude and shows:

• usage in real time
• time left before things reset
• simple progress bars for limits

One unexpected thing people liked:
→ exporting chats

Because when Claude hits a limit, most of us:
copy everything → switch account/tool → continue 😅

This just makes that one click.

It’s fully local + open source.

Would love feedback from people here who use Claude a lot.