Pure Paste goals to repair the ache of formatted textual content for good

One of my greatest laptop pet peeves is copying and pasting textual content. Not the precise mechanism of getting phrases from one doc to a different, however the way in which that trendy computer systems insist on making an attempt to be overly useful and copying not simply the textual content I need, however all of the formatting that comes with it, mucking up my emails and my paperwork.

Pure Paste is a neat new menubar app for macOS that goals to repair that: when it’s open, it routinely strips out any formatting on textual content you copy, permitting you to stick clear, unformatted textual content each time. There’s additionally an choice to solely clear formatting while you ask Pure Paste to (both by clicking on the menubar icon or by a keyboard shortcut).

For these anxious about safety issues, the developer notes that whereas the app does entry your clipboard, it doesn’t retailer any information — or is even able to connecting to the web in any respect.

Technically, there’s already a technique to do one thing related on a Mac: in the event you paste with the convoluted four-key shortcut of Command-Shift-Option-V, as an alternative of the same old Command-V, it’s going to paste and match the fashion of no matter doc you’re in. (Enterprising customers may delve deeper into the macOS settings and remap “paste and match style” to be Command-V, too, however that additionally requires extra effort.)

To that finish, I’m not totally certain that Pure Paste shall be overly useful to somebody like me, who has grown so totally used to mashing Command-Shift-Option-V each time I paste one thing that it’s turn into ingrained into my muscle reminiscence. (I’ve additionally grown used to pasting textual content into Alfred after which copying out from there, which additionally clears any formatting).

Still, Pure Paste is a free, easy utility that does what it says on the can, and may simply make your day-to-day workflow a tiny bit much less aggravating.