Maccy pinned items and favorites

How to pin an item

Open your history with ⌘ ⇧ C, highlight the item, and press ⌥ P (the pin shortcut, rebindable in Settings). Press it again to unpin. That is all there is to it.

Why pinning matters

• Always accessible: pinned items sit at the top, so frequently used snippets are one keystroke away rather than buried.
• Never auto-purged: Maccy trims old history to respect your size limit, but pinned items are exempt — they will not disappear no matter how much you copy. See retention and size limits.
• Survive clears: a normal Clear removes unpinned history but keeps your pins (how clearing works).

Great things to pin

• Your email signature, address, or phone number.
• Boilerplate replies and canned responses.
• Frequently used code snippets, commands, or config blocks.
• A current project link, ticket ID, or reference you paste all day.

Pins as a mini snippet store

Because pinned items persist, many people use them as a lightweight snippet library — not a full text-expander, but enough to keep your dozen most-used pastes permanently on hand. Combined with search, you rarely scroll: pin it once, then recall it instantly.

Pins across Macs

If you enable iCloud sync, your pinned items follow you to your other Macs automatically, while full history stays per-device. See iCloud sync vs local storage.

Pinning is one of the highest-value habits in Maccy — spend a minute pinning your top snippets and you will feel the difference immediately.

How to pin items in Maccy

Pinning is one of Maccy’s most useful features. A pinned item stays at the top of your history list permanently — it is never automatically deleted when the history limit is reached, and it survives restarts and iCloud syncs.

Pin an item

1. Open Maccy with ⌘⇧C
2. Use the keyboard or mouse to highlight the item you want to pin
3. Press ⌘P
4. A pin icon (📌) appears next to the item confirming it is pinned

Unpin an item

1. Open Maccy and highlight the pinned item
2. Press ⌘P again to toggle pinning off

What gets pinned to the top

Pinned items always appear at the very top of the Maccy history list, above all regular (unpinned) items. This means your most important clips are always reachable in 2–3 keystrokes: open Maccy, press the number (1, 2, 3...) for your pinned item, done.

If you have multiple pinned items, they are ordered by when they were pinned (most recently pinned appears first). You can’t drag-reorder pinned items directly, but you can unpin and re-pin them to change order.

Best things to pin in Maccy

Pinning is most valuable for items you paste repeatedly — things you would otherwise keep in a notes app or type from memory:

• Home / work address — paste into any form in seconds
• Email signature — for email clients that don’t support templates
• Standard code snippet — a boilerplate you use in every project
• Phone number / personal details — for filling forms
• SSH public key — for quickly adding to servers
• API key (non-sensitive) — staging/dev keys you use frequently
• Meeting link — your recurring Zoom/Meet/Teams URL
• Frequently used emoji or unicode — ✓ ✓ → — etc.

Pinned items and iCloud sync

When iCloud sync is enabled, pinned items sync across all your Macs. A snippet you pin on your MacBook at home appears on your iMac at work. Pinned status syncs alongside the item content.

If iCloud sync is not enabled, pinned items are local to the Mac where you pinned them.

Pinned items and history size limit

Pinned items are exempt from the history size limit. If your history is set to 200 items and you have 5 pinned items, you effectively have 205 items — the 5 pinned items are never counted toward the 200-item limit and are never automatically deleted.

This makes pinning the right solution for “things I want forever” while using the regular history for “things I might need soon.”

Using pinned items as a snippet library

Power users use Maccy’s pinned items as a lightweight text snippet library. Unlike dedicated snippet managers (TextExpander, Alfred Snippets), Maccy’s pinned items require no separate app — they live in your clipboard history and are always accessible via the same shortcut.

For a small number of frequently-used snippets (under ~20), pinned items in Maccy is an efficient, zero-cost alternative to a full snippet manager. For larger snippet libraries or abbreviation-based expansion, a dedicated snippet tool may still be worth it.