PureText Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Always paste without formatting on macOS

  Right, it’s in Powertoys, and alternatively this works well: https://stevemiller.net/puretext/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts

  For the record, it's also available without AutoHotKey, using Powertoys [1] or PureText [2]. Very useful. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/ [2] https://stevemiller.net/puretext/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Is there a person who doesn't agree with this?

  I use https://stevemiller.net/puretext/ It's also on the windows store if your IT has you somewhat locked down but still able to access the store. Source: 12 months ago

• Is there a person who doesn't agree with this?

  You can have it everywhere with either Powertoys or https://stevemiller.net/puretext/. Source: 12 months ago

• PowerToys Release v0.68.0 with Paste as plain text (Win+Ctrl+V) and Mouse Jump

  I've been using PureText for years to paste as plain text, but it's good to see this functionality is part of PowerToys now. Source: about 1 year ago

• turn off pasting with format?

  What I finally ended up doing is downloading a tiny app that solves the problem for everything. It's called puretext - https://stevemiller.net/puretext/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Using Windows after 15 years on Linux

  I like to use that: https://stevemiller.net/puretext/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• My new laptop has rich text copy and pasting, and it is absolutely infuriating. It is crippling my progress on basic tasks like programming. I need this to die on my computer in every imaginable way, I never want anything to ever be rich text copy and pasting on this machine it must die

  Take a look at PureText (https://stevemiller.net/puretext/). I don't think there is a specific "OS-level setting" for disabling rich text in the clipboard, but the goal of PureText is to do exactly that. Source: over 2 years ago

• Microsoft Teams 2.0 will use half the memory, drop Electron

  I know there's Ctrl-Shift-V, but I use "PureText" on Windows. https://stevemiller.net/puretext/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux?

  PureText[0] is a Windows application I use regularly. It adds a keyboard shortcut for pasting as plain text. [0] https://stevemiller.net/puretext/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago