PureText is a simple little tool that could save me hours of my life. I searched for it today before I began to write such a tool for the third time. Here's a summary by the author (the guy who writes DependencyWalker):
PureText is basically equivalent to opening Notepad, doing a PASTE, followed by a SELECT-ALL, and then a COPY. The benefit of PureText is performing all these actions with a single Hot-Key and having the result pasted into the current window automatically.
Basically, this describes what I do about 5-30 times a day. I grab something formatted and want to paste it into another document or email, but I rarely want to keep the formatting. Before this tool, I copied the text to the clipboard, then I hit this arcane sequence of keys: WindowsKey-N (my Notepad hotkey), Ctrl-V, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Alt-F, x. Now that I've bound this tool to WindowsKey-Q, I've shortened 6 keystrokes (with slight delays) to 1 immediate keystroke.
It may seem silly, but it's worth it for me.
January 6th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
Did I ever mention ClipX to you?
It is a simple tool tray utility that keeps a history of all the things you copy to the clipboard. If you press one of its modifier keys instead of the normal paste key, it pops up a history list and you can select the item you wish to paste. I have it set up to default to the next to the last item which makes it very easy for me to copy two things and then paste them both.
The reason I thought to mention the utility is that if you paste text from its history (even the #1 history entry which is the current clipboard item), it pastes as plain text.
Granted, it would be two keystrokes to plain text paste (Ctrl Shift V, 1 [or enter if 1 is the default]), and ClipX can't use the windows key as its hotkey modifier, but it is still fantastically useful to me for the history feature.
Anyway.. maybe you'll find it useful.
Daniel