Clipboard for plain text

[Wassercrats]

Anyone know of a clipboard utility that can automatically convert formatted text into plain text? Because NoteTab is the latest editor I've tried that's too buggy so I'm going back to Wordpad but I want all pasted text to be formatted the same way. I'd use Notepad, but that's buggy too. I have Open Office Writer but the unformatted text pasting feature requires too many clicks.

Or I'll buy a good commercial text editor IF it's sold in stores.

[frankc]

Anyone know of a clipboard utility that can automatically convert formatted text into plain text? Because NoteTab is the latest editor I've tried that's too buggy so I'm going back to Wordpad but I want all pasted text to be formatted the same way. I'd use Notepad, but that's buggy too. I have Open Office Writer but the unformatted text pasting feature requires too many clicks.

Or I'll buy a good commercial text editor IF it's sold in stores.
I'm a long-time user of ClipMate (http://www.clipmate.com/) and one of the options is to strip off formatting, either automatically or when you view the item in Clipmate before pasting. Maybe that'd fit your needs.

[Wassercrats]

That sounds perfect. According to my browsing history, I looked at ClipMagic and Clipboard Genie, but they didn't have what I want (as far as I could tell). So I guess my new text editor will be Open Office Writer or Wordpad after I get ClipMate.

[Wassercrats]

It's slightly less useful than would make it worth while. If it let you capture a complete webpage (including scrolled-to sections) like Snag It, or if you were able to use CTRL-Fx to paste various clips instead of a menu, or maybe even if it was just a filter for CTRL-V when turned on, I might have bought it. I'm still thinking about it though. I don't know what I'll do in the meantime. I guess either paste into Notepad to get rid of the formatting or deal with the extra clicks needed in Open Office Writer (and the bugs).

[hobbes]

Something I would be interested in is a copy-paste functionality that would change all non-regular quotes to regular quotes, and all n/m-dashes to regular -

[Wassercrats]

Yeah, me too. And optionally changes line breaks to spaces, which I've needed to do when copying from PDF documents.

Yankee clipper (http://www.intelexual.com/products/YCX/)'s ActivePaste meets my requirement to "assign an individual hotkey to a specific clipping" but I don't see any of the text filtering that I want.

[frankc]

It's slightly less useful than would make it worth while. If it let you capture a complete webpage (including scrolled-to sections) like Snag It, or if you were able to use CTRL-Fx to paste various clips instead of a menu, or maybe even if it was just a filter for CTRL-V when turned on, I might have bought it.
I've not seen anything that captures a whole web page as you describe (that'd be nice), but it does full screencaps, object caps, and "draw the rectangle" caps quite nicely.

I'm not sure what you mean by CTRL-Fx.

CTRL-V pastes the last CTRL-C, and you can move up/down through the list of clips with CTRL-N (next) and -P (previous). In the ClipMate interface you can highlight individual, random clips you want added together and paste them together as one.

I've created many folders and use Clipmate to hold web page code, passwords, personal stuff, work stuff, humorous thoughts, subscription info, hardware and software tips, ebay descriptions and code I use from time to time, recipes, you name it.

Hobbes and Wassercrats, you're looking for Text Cleanup (the icon is like an upside down hat), it does have a find/replace to take care of the quotes. Don't know what a n/m-dash is.

[Wassercrats]

CTRL-Fx means holding down the ctrl key and pressing one of the function keys (F1-F12 on my computer). I'd like the clips to be pasted that way or with some other key combination instead of a menu. Otherwise I might prefer to just paste clips in a text editor and copy from there when I need one.

Choosing a text editor is another problem. The creator of Notetab told me that the bug I found is caused by a bug in Windows rich-edit control, which the light and standard versions use. It causes major problems and makes those versions unusable to me. In my opinion, nobody else should use them either. I can't confirm that it's really a rich-edit control problem, but if it is, that eliminates several other editors too. Maybe I'll get the pro version.