X Clipboard Cleaner

Ever copy/paste from a web page and have the web page's style mess up the document you are pasting into?

That's pretty common for me.

Chrome/Firefox both preserve HTML style when copying text to the clipboard, and the following are common targets:

• email
• HTML-enabled editor widget
• word processor document

My old process was:

1. copy text/link from web page
2. open up a text editor
3. paste inside the text editor
4. copy the same text again, this time without the style
5. paste into the target location

I finally got sick of doing this manually all the time, so I wrote a script and put it in my app launcher bar.

Here is a gist with a script you can download: