Privacy mode

A launcher knows an uncomfortable amount about you: what you copied, what your folders are called, what your notes are about. Privacy mode hides the revealing half of that while leaving the half you need to work.

Turn it on from the palette, from Settings › Extras, or with cleat://privacy.

What changes

Where	Normally	In privacy mode
Clipboard history	The copied text as the row title	Dots, sized to the original
File results	The full folder path	The word “File”
Bookmarks	Folder and host	The browser name only
Copied files	The full path	The file name alone

Titles of apps, commands and settings are untouched, because a list of dots you cannot read is not a launcher.

Reporting an issue

Report an Issue… never attaches a picture of a window or a log, whether privacy mode is on or off, so nothing on this list goes with a report. See Privacy and data.

What it is not

This is a presentation aid, not a security control. Anyone who can use your Mac can turn it off, and it does not encrypt anything. For that, the answer is what Cleat stores and where, which is a short list of files you can delete.