Paste Clipboard Content as Plain Text
Easily convert Clipboard content with a Clipboard Manager
If you have LaunchBar and Keyboard Maestro there are a couple of tricks on how to paste the contents of your clipboard as plain text.
I have clipboard management is enabled for both applications. I use LaunchBar for my primary clipboard management. I have found LaunchBar interface to be simple to navigate and easy to paste the content I want.
Keyboard Maestro is great, it just a little more powerful than what I need for everyday use. LaunchBar clipboard window is easier to manage.
Paste As Plain Text
When I want to paste clipboard content as plain text, I use Keyboard Maestro. The thing to remember is that when pasting from Keyboard Maestro to hold down the SHIFT key to make the content plain text.
Prior to using Keyboard Maestro, I would paste the content into BBEdit then copy it to make it plain text.
LaunchBar
You can make LaunchBar paste content plain text by enabling "As Plain Text" in preferences. The only downside is that it always paste as plain text. If you want to over-ride that settings, you hold down the OPTION key to paste as Rich Text.
Over the years, I have found that I usually want to keep the RichText formatting as the default. Using plain text, I lose the hyperlink links, which is useful when pasting content in an email or DayOne Journal.
Keyboard Shortcuts
To make it easy to navigate between the two Clipboard management tools, I have a similar shortcut:
- For LaunchBar I use the default Command
- For Keyboard Maestro I set up Shift Command (This you have to set in Keyboard Maestro.)