TieTieThis is the TieTie dog.
A corgi, lying on your menu bar. It watches while you copy things, and fetches them when you go looking. Quiet most of the time, around when it matters.
Why a dog? Because this app guards things and fetches things. That was already the job description.
Six places it turns up.
It isn't decoration stuck on for cuteness. Each spot is somewhere that would otherwise be empty, or somewhere people get stuck.
Top left of the panel
Paws on the edge of the TieTie window, peeking in. If you'd rather not have it, the setting turns it off and the space it occupied gets reclaimed, so the panel gets a little shorter.
The first-run walkthrough
Four pages. Which permission is needed and why, explained with the dog standing there. Skip it whenever you want and it won't nag.
When history is empty
Fresh install, or you just cleared everything. Instead of showing you a blank rectangle, the dog settles in and waits for you to copy something.
When a search finds nothing
Magnifying glass in hand, nothing to show for it. There's a clear-search button next to it so you don't have to delete the text one character at a time.
Anything about privacy
When the topic is "your data doesn't leave this Mac," the dog delivers it. Guard duty seemed like the right assignment.
The setup-complete page
One celebration at the end of the walkthrough. Once, and then never again.
A day in its life.
Clipboard management sounds dull. To this dog it's the best job in the world.
Its favorite thing is waiting for you to hit ⌘C
It lies on that narrow strip at the top of your screen all day doing nothing, just waiting for you to copy something. The moment you do, it's up and carrying that card inside, finding it a spot — text with the text, images with the images, picking out a color on the way.
Then back down it goes, waiting for the next one.
And when you finally think of "that thing from last week," ⇧⌘V and it spreads the whole wall out in front of you, tail going, like it's saying see, I kept them all. Better memory than yours, and it has never once found the job boring.
Why a corgi
Short legs, low to the ground, back end wobbling when it runs. The menu bar is one narrow strip, and that happens to be exactly the height a corgi settles into. A bigger dog wouldn't fit.
It doesn't make noise
No tips popping up, no notifications, no asking you for five stars. Staying quiet is the thing it's best at, tied with waiting for ⌘C.
It likes you seeing it on duty
Poking its head over the edge is how it tells you it hasn't been slacking off — not one thing you copied got missed. If you're busy and would rather not be watched, settings lets it hide. It won't take offense, and the shift gets covered either way.
Loyal as any guard dog, and it never needs feeding.The TieTie dog · lives in your menu bar, consumes zero treats