What's new in Library 1.6.0

Library 1.6.0 keeps your clipboard history when you quit, if you turn that on, and adds smart actions, notes, and a Reading List.

Released October 15, 2026. Last reviewed October 15, 2026.

New

Keep clipboard history across restarts. Turn it on in Settings > Clipboard. It is off by default, and turning it off deletes the saved history.
Smart actions for detected text. Text with an address, a phone number, or a date gets Open in Maps, Copy Phone Number, or Add to Calendar in Quick Open, under Tab.
Smart Punctuation in Copy as. It turns straight quotes and dashes into curly quotes, em dashes, and ellipses.
Notes on any item. Write a note in Get Info. Quick Open shows it under the item's name.
A Reading List. Add a bookmark from its right-click menu, or press Tab in Quick Open.
Check links periodically, off by default. Library checks each bookmark's page once a day.
Name new bookmarks from their pages, off by default. A new bookmark takes its page's title.
Sort by Most Used or Recently Opened in Edit Library.

Saving an edit to a folder keeps the folder's current contents.
Links with a scheme such as mailto: or obsidian:// keep that scheme.
Merging duplicates keeps apps with different arguments, and links for other browsers, apart.
A locked pinned item shows no title in rows or the Actions header.

Download Library 1.6.0 from the GitHub release page, or install it with the command on the install page.