Flow Fetch: Automatically track and retrieve copied links

Flow Fetch tracks URLs you copy and keeps them in a dropdown on the Flow Bar. Click any link to copy it again — no digging through browser history or switching apps.

What it is

Flow Fetch is a clipboard link tracker built into the Flow Bar. When you copy a URL, Flow Fetch checks it against privacy filters and stores it locally if it passes. A link icon to the right of the bubble on the Flow Bar gives you instant access to your recent links without switching apps or retracing your steps.

Links are displayed with smart labels — for example, a Notion URL shows the page title parsed from the slug, and known services like Claude or Loom show a friendly app name. Source icons help you tell documents, spreadsheets, and videos apart at a glance. Links are sorted by copy frequency, so the URLs you use most appear near the top.

When to use it

Use Flow Fetch when you want to:

• Paste a link you copied earlier without switching back to your browser or another app

• Quickly reuse a Notion page, Loom video, or other resource you visit repeatedly

• Find a link by name when you remember what it was but not where you put it

How it works in Flow

Overview

Click the link icon on the Flow Bar (to the right of the bubble) to open the Flow Fetch dropdown. Your recently copied URLs appear in a list — click any link to copy it back to your clipboard, then paste it wherever you need it.

Key behaviors

• Smart labels: Notion pages display the page title parsed from the URL slug (e.g., my-project-brief becomes "My Project Brief"), and recognized apps like Claude and Loom show a friendly app name instead of the full URL. Recognized services include Notion, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Drive, Loom, Linear, Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub, Figma, Slack, Vercel, PostHog, Sentry, and Speakeasy. Links from other services show the domain name.

• Source icons: Links from Notion, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Drive show a document icon; Google Sheets shows a spreadsheet icon; Loom shows a video icon. All other services show a generic link icon.

• Ordering: Links are sorted by copy frequency (most-copied first), then alphabetically by app name, then by most recently copied. Links copied more than once show a copy count in their label (e.g., "Notion - My Page (3x)").

• Local storage with 14-day retention: Links are stored locally on your device and automatically removed after 14 days. Nothing is sent to external servers. Re-copying a link resets the timer, so frequently-used links stay in the list as long as you keep using them.

• Privacy filtering: Localhost URLs, password manager URLs (1Password, Bitwarden, and LastPass), and URLs containing authentication tokens are automatically skipped and never stored. URLs with sensitive tokens in query strings (token, key, secret, password, api_key, apikey, access_token) are rejected entirely. The same tokens in URL fragments are stripped before storage, but the URL is still saved.

Examples

FAQs

Limitations and notes

• Flow Fetch is available on Mac only and is currently behind a feature flag.

• Links are stored locally on your device and do not sync across multiple devices.

• The 14-day rolling retention window is fixed — there is no option to extend or shorten it.

• Smart labels depend on recognizable URL patterns. Links from unsupported services display the domain name rather than a friendly label.

• Privacy filtering is automatic and cannot be overridden — filtered URLs never appear in the dropdown.

• The dropdown does not include a search or filter function — all tracked links are shown in a flat list.

• There may be up to a 1.5-second delay before a copied URL appears in the dropdown.