TIL Clean Pasting

POSTED ON: Mar 12, 2021

TAGS: html

This is more in the 'How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, Old Man?' area.

When you copy text from the internet, a bunch of formatting and HTML gets copied, too. Copy a link’s text and paste it into Mac Notes, and there’s some of the text formatting of the website, plus the link.

I almost never want this extra stuff, so I use an alternate paste dubbed the ‘Clean Paste.’
On MacOS, instead of CMD + V, try CMD + OPTION + SHIFT + V. You’ll get just the text, minus all the extras.

ADDED THIS: On Windows, it's CTRL + SHIFT + V.

Another option is to:

1. Paste without formatting, if that exists.
2. Paste in a notepad file (Windows only?). (Mac's Notepad does save styles, so I dunno. I guess you can paste it in a .md file or in Nano/VIM but if you know what that means, you probably already know about this pitfall.)

Also via that post:

Note: I learned this via the newsletter Recomendo, which I (pause for effect) recommend. It’s so helpful me and I’ve looked it up so many times, that I’m re-sharing it here.

REFERNCE:
https://til.hashrocket.com/posts/fazma1l5nu-clean-paste-

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