Paste Vault – Snippets, One Shortcut Away

Stop retyping the same text. Save it once, then Alt+Shift+V, a few letters and Enter put it at your cursor. No account, no server.

Stop retyping the same text. Save your replies, signatures, addresses and code once - then, in the field you are typing in, press Alt+Shift+V, type a few letters and press Enter. The snippet is typed right where your cursor was: no copy, no click back, no paste. No account. No server of ours. No tracking. Your clips stay on your device; only the snippets you name can sync between your computers, through your own Chrome Sync, end-to-end encrypted if you set a passphrase. Alt+Shift+V opens a search box over the page, and your clips filter as you type. Give a clip a short alias like "sig", and ;sig brings it up first. Where a page will not let Paste Vault type, the clip lands on your clipboard and Paste Vault says so. Shift+Enter only copies. It is not a clipboard logger. Paste Vault never reads your clipboard in the background and never asks for clipboard-read permission. You decide what gets saved: a shortcut, the right-click menu, an Add-clip button, or opt-in capture on sites you choose. FAST, AND MEASURABLY SO Search runs against an in-memory index, so results appear as you type with no spinner and no delay. On a vault of 2000 clips, a full search round trip measures 6 ms at worst in Chrome. There is no debounce, because there is nothing to wait for. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE - UNLESS YOU SYNC YOUR SNIPPETS No account. No server of ours. No analytics. Paste Vault makes no network requests at all - not for your clips, not for your searches, not for usage statistics. Nothing is collected because nothing is sent to us. YOUR SNIPPETS ON EVERY COMPUTER Turn on snippet sync and the clips you gave an alias follow you to every computer where you use Chrome, through Chrome Sync in your own Google account. Set a passphrase and they are end-to-end encrypted: Google stores only ciphertext it cannot read. A few preferences (theme, privacy choices) travel too. What never syncs: your clip history, images, anything flagged as possibly sensitive, your retention settings, and the sites you allowed for capture. Sync is off until you turn it on, and Chrome allows it about 100 kB - room for hundreds of snippets. A snippet deleted on one computer goes to the trash on the others, so a mistake is recoverable everywhere. A fresh install asks for no access to any website. Chrome shows no "read your data on all sites" warning, because Paste Vault does not ask for it. SAVE WHAT YOU MEAN TO SAVE - Select text, right-click, "Copy & save to Paste Vault" - Or press Alt+Shift+S to save the current selection - Save a link or an image from the right-click menu - Optional: turn on capture mode and allow specific sites, and copies you make on those sites are saved automatically Capture mode is off by default and works only on sites you explicitly allow, one at a time. You can withdraw a site at any moment. SNIPPETS YOU SUMMON BY NAME Give a clip a short alias - "sig", "addr", "iban" - and it becomes a snippet. Type ;sig in the palette, press Enter, and your signature is in the email. A snippet can fill itself in: {{date}}, {{time}} and {{weekday}} become today's values, {{cursor}} decides where your cursor lands afterwards, and any other {{name}} is a blank the palette asks you to fill before it types the snippet. Czech spellings work too: {{datum}}, {{čas}}, {{den}}, {{kurzor}}. Aliases work inside the palette. Paste Vault does not watch what you type on websites, so typing ;sig into a page on its own does nothing. SEE IT BEFORE YOU USE IT The palette shows the whole clip beside the list, not a one-line excerpt: JSON formatted and coloured, code coloured, tables as tables, links with their site icon and a count of the tracking parameters they carry, colours as a swatch, images as a picture. Clips that look like secrets stay hidden until you reveal them. CLEAN UP TEXT WITHOUT LEAVING THE KEYBOARD Press Tab in the palette and apply one of 20 transformations; Enter then types the cleaned-up result, and the preview shows it first: - Fix the ragged line breaks you get when copying from a PDF - Strip utm_, gclid, fbclid and other tracking parameters from links - Collapse spaces, trim lines, join into one line - lower case, UPPER CASE, Title Case, Sentence case - Remove diacritics - Format or minify JSON - Convert a table to CSV or TSV - Escape for Markdown or HTML Every transformation is exact and reversible by re-copying the original. There is no AI, nothing is rewritten, and nothing guesses what you meant. FIND ANYTHING - Type to search across your clips - Filter with type:code, tag:work, site:github.com, is:pinned, after:7d - Accents are ignored, so "prilis" finds "příliš" - Pin what you use constantly, star what matters, tag the rest CAREFUL WITH SECRETS Paste Vault never stores anything from a password field - not even when the field sits inside a larger selection. It also checks each clip locally for things that look like card numbers, API keys, tokens or private keys, and hides those behind a "Reveal" action instead of showing them in the list. This check runs on your device and is a hint, not a guarantee: it will miss things and it will flag ordinary text. If you handle credentials often, set it to never store flagged clips at all. The paste palette opens over the page you are on, but runs in its own isolated frame: the page cannot read your clips in it or see what you type into it. YOUR DATA, YOUR RULES - Keep clips for 7, 30 or 90 days, or until you delete them - Set a maximum number of clips - Export everything to a local, verified .zip backup you keep and can restore - Import it back - Delete one clip, a selection, or all of it, whenever you want - Deleted clips wait 30 days in a trash, so a mistake is not the end of it Deleting is undoable. A deleted clip leaves the list, the search and the paste palette immediately, but sits in the trash for 30 days in case you want it back. "Delete forever" and "Empty trash" remove it at once. Uninstalling removes everything on that computer. If you turned sync on, "Delete the synced copy" in the settings removes your snippets from your Google account too. WHAT PASTE VAULT CANNOT DO Chrome does not let an extension watch the system clipboard in the background, and Paste Vault does not pretend otherwise. It cannot see what you copy in other applications, in other browsers, or in Chrome's own address bar. Clips come from what you deliberately save, or from copies on sites you allowed. It bundles a single third-party library, fflate (MIT), to build the backup file.