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Keyloggers are malware and malicious by default, even for your own use.
Look into clipboard managers, and you can save/paste history more easily. Do not pursue keyloggers, they will leak all your secure passwords.
I made one in AutoHotkey for Windows (or, rather, edited an existing script that was out there on the AHK forums). As long as you understand how it works and that it's totally offline, you're fine. It's saved my hide numerous times and one for Android would be tremendously helpful.
I'm inquiring in an open-source community for a reason...
you question looks like Hilary's aid asking "How do i permanently delete emails from a hard drive", so is sus on it's own and i have 0% trust that you have a valid use case for this
literally every use case you have or could mention is solved in a better way. Pursuing the avenue you are currently on is a security vulnerability. It's like asking a lockmaking group "Hey, how can i have my keys copied automatically so i don't ever forget them again? And have them printed to a shelf right next to the front door"
So even if you are being genuine, any sense of a duty of care to an internet stranger compels me to tell you to not do this
Why don't you share them, then? Until you actually share a possible solution, you may as well just answer, "It's not possible." I haven't heard or found anything that is 100% passive.
The whole point of it is for it to have your back when you're not expecting any issues, such as in comments like this. Imagine if you typed everything in that massive response just now, but lost it one sentence short of submission, somehow, in one way or another. That is exactly the situation I'm looking to defeat. I can do it on Windows already through an AutoHotkey script that I have for myself, but nothing exists for Android that functions in this same way. The thing can be under a password/lock when trying to view the logged keystrokes; that'd be fine and welcome. It could even delete everything after a single wrong entry. So why is everyone coming down so hard on me? It's been genuinely helpful every now and then on PC.
How about obsidian and you paste in messages after you've drafted them out?
with this to recover anything missed in a copy?
That autohotkey script could lose you your job, your retirement funds, your savings... it's just not worth it when there are secured solutions around if you could manage a little change in behavior