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I don't know if such a feature would help with other issues or other apps. I noticed aText's method is quite a lot faster for short snippets. Of course it would be a total overkill just to get this one stupid app working. There's no possibility to override the snippets functionality via workflows or so, right? Not exactly. I just noticed it took them years to even add the possibility to choose between rich text and plain text. I'll definitely try my luck, though! Thanks for your help @deanishe!

You're right — after enabling the clipboard checkbox I once again get Helvetica, 12pt. Seems like simulating keystrokes is the only solution then — apart from detecting Sketch. Is this something Alfred could do? After some more research on Sketch boards/subreddits, I doubt Bohemian will ever change the paste behaviour.

I totally agree. Bohemian's decision to flip the paste shortcuts is super frustrating. Nevertheless, it's not the case with every snippet expansion app. I just installed aText to test this: Somehow, aText seems to paste "cleaner" snippets without formatting. Similar to my aforementioned fix: I expand the snippet in the Alfred input, copy it and then paste it into Sketch.

Sorry for the monologue… I noticed that changing the "Paste" shortcut (obviously) has some disadvantages. For example inserting images etc. will be changed to ⌥⇧⌘V too. Could Alfred detect Sketch and use the normal paste shortcut instead of the ⌥⇧⌘V one?

Ah, I think I know why this happens: Sketch changes up the Paste / Paste as Rich Text shortcuts. I fixed that by adding the reverse shortcuts to the Keyboard → Shortcuts settings:

I'm a frequent user of the snippets feature. Sadly I can't really use it in https://www.sketch.com/ as it always pastes plain text as Helvetica, 12pt. Is there anything Alfred (or I) can do to fix this? Does something similar happen in other apps? Copying the text, pressing CMD + Z and pasting it again will paste it as plain text. I also often type the snippet in Alfred, copy the text and paste it into Sketch. That works too, but it's not quite as clean and productive as directly using snippets in the app. macOS Mojave 10.14.5 / Alfred 4.02 / Sketch 53.2