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Pipit can keep your past dictations and the things you copy, so you can find them again from the menu bar.

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Choose what Pipit saves

Open the Enhance tab and scroll to History. Clipboard history skips passwords and other items that apps mark as private. While Save transcription history is off, the menu bar’s Transcriptions tab says History is off. Below the switches you’ll find:
  • Transcriptions: how many are saved on this Mac. Export… saves a CSV file of Transcriptions Only, Clipboard Only, or Both. Clear… permanently deletes your saved transcriptions.
  • Paste last dictation: ⌃⌘V pastes your latest transcription again, in any app.
  • Clipboard items: how many are saved. Clear… permanently deletes them.
Pipit keeps your recent history and removes older items over time. Pinned items are kept. Clear… and Clear All remove everything, pinned items included.

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Use the menu bar

Click the Pipit icon in the menu bar to open its popover.
  • Search finds text in the list.
  • Switch between the Clipboard and Transcriptions tabs.
  • Click an item to copy it. You’ll see “Copied”, then the popover closes so you can paste.
  • Right-click an item and choose Pin to Top to keep it at the top of the list. Choose Unpin from Top to undo that.
At the bottom of the popover: The popover may show a banner: The menu bar icon turns orange when Accessibility is missing.

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Open Pipit when the menu bar icon is hidden

If Save clipboard history is off, Pipit has no menu bar icon, and it shows its Dock icon instead. Pipit still runs and your shortcuts still work. To open the main window, open Pipit again from your Applications folder or Spotlight. If Pipit is already running, this brings up its window rather than starting a second copy.