Strip formatting from clipboard text

[David]

Hi, this is probably the shortest and easiest workflow ever but i thought i'd post it anyway in case anyone finds it useful aswell. It simply removes the formatting from the text on the clipboard.

 

So, if you copy some text from Firefox and paste it in an E-mail, often the pasted text will have a different font/text size/bold,italic formatting than the alredy present text in your e-mail.

To solve this i use "Cmd + C" , "Alfred -> Strclip" , "Cmd + V", and the text will now be pasted with the correct formatting.

 

There's also a native OS X shortcut for this (Cmd + Alt + Shift + V), however it doesn't work in a lot of Applications (for example Pages) and also... pressing those 4 buttons is nearly impossible

 

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EDIT: added option to "strip and paste".

 

 

Download: https://github.com/notDavid/alfred-workflow-stripClipboardFormatting/raw/master/Alfred-Strip.clipboard.text.formatting.alfredworkflow

Github source: https://github.com/notDavid/alfred-workflow-stripClipboardFormatting

 

Edited January 12, 2016 by David

[samvlu]

Awesome work. Just what I was looking for.

Thanks for contributing. =)

[vitor]

You can make it even shorter and simpler. By adding a Copy to Clipboard node, you can relinquish pbcopy, and have the workflow automatically paste the text to the frontmost app. Something like this.

[David]

Something like this.

 

ah yes indeed sounds like fun, I'll have a look and adjust it link doesn't work btw.

[vitor]

link doesn't work btw.

Not sure what’s wrong, I just tried it again and it worked.

[mixterdee]

Excellent, thanks for this.

[Don Dahl]

Damn i friggin' love this forum! You guys make my life so easy, you have no idea =)

[paulw]

I'm wondering what folks are using this workflow vs using the built-in workflow template "Paste as plain text from hotkey"? (In Templates > Clipboard)

[Don Dahl]

Can you elaborate on this paulw? I can't seem to locate what you're talking about

[paulw]

If you go to Alfred Preferences, click on the Workflows icon, then at the bottom of the list of workflows, click the "+" sign, then choose Templates > Clipboard >  Paste as plain text from hotkey

[Peter VandeHaar]

The bitly links are currently broken.  Anyways, looks like https://github.com/notDavid/alfred-workflow-stripClipboardFormattingis the correct link for github.

[timzter]

Used to use an app called TextScrub but it was disabled in the UK. This was the perfect replacement for it, thank you so much!

[Vero]

@timzter It's worth pointing out that this is a very old thread, and pasting as plain text from Alfred's clipboard is a built-in feature.

 

Workflows > [+] at the bottom of the sidebar > Examples > Clipboard will give you a few built-in workflows. The top left one can be set to a hotkey to paste the clipboard content as plain text.

 

Cheers,
Vero

[Hans-Pe]

I do not use any workflow to paste plain text:

I configured Alfred's Clipboard History as follows:

• Vierwer Hotkey: ⌘ Double Tab
• Pasting: Auto-Paste on Return.

That's all I need to make me happy:

1. ⌘C to copy to clipboard
2. Go to Target
3. ⌘ double tab, choose from Clipboard history and hit emter