![]() ![]() They are: (1) Akkurat Mono by Lineto (Monospaced) (2) Graphik by Commercial Type (Sans Serif) and (3) Valkyrie by MB Type (Serif). Simpletext comes with three professional fonts for you to choose from, handpicked to provide the finest writing experience. There’s no visual clutter - the intent is to create a quiet space that helps you connect with your voice and get into the flow. Simpletext provides a blank canvas to write with absolutely nothing to distract you from writing. In order to achieve this, Simpletext is designed around four cornerstone principles: 1. The idea is to create a dumbed-down writing app that inspires you to do nothing else but write. In fact, Simpletext began the opposite way - by listing down everything I didn’t want in a writing app. Most people would say Simpletext is lacking in features, and they’re right. So I built Simpletext based on a simple premise - what if there’s an app that refuses to do more, choosing instead to do just one thing, and do it well? For Simpletext, that one thing is writing. Most apps were trying to do too much and ended up bloated with features I don’t need. Simpletext started as a passion project because I couldn’t find what I was looking for. It’s single-minded commitment to simplicity means you’ll get a no-frills writing app that works well and looks great, forever. This will force all outbound emails to be normal looking, even if you’re responding to a comic sans disaster.There are many writing apps for you to choose from today, so why bother with yet another one? Because Simpletext is different. If you’re constantly stripping formatting funkiness out of emails and you use the OS X Mail app, consider toggling the preference switch to always send emails as plain text rather than rich formatted text. I have to do this with every email, is there a better way? You can also just open documents in TextEdit and resave them as plain text to convert that way, or you can do batch file conversions easily with the textutil command line tool that comes in all versions of Mac OS X. The end result of either approach will look like this, just simple plain text without the styling, formatting, fonts, colors, or whatever else has made it look unprofessional: This removes all formatting but will retain line simple line breaks that are respected by plain text documents. Select all and copy again to have the unstyled version in the clipboard.Hit Command+Shift+T to convert the document to plain text and remove all formatting.Open a new TextEdit file and paste in the styled/formatted text.TextEdit the simple text editing app that is included in all versions of Mac OS X, and you can use it’s built-in rich text conversion abilities to strip formatting very quickly. 3: Strip Text Styling & Formatting with TextEdit The downside is that not all apps support their usage, so you may want to use the next trick instead, which is universal since it relies on a separate application. ![]() Because the clipboards are different, you must be consistent with the command usage, and you can’t cross from one to the other without pasting the text elsewhere and then recopying it again. Paste in the desired location with Control+Y (rather than command+v)Īgain, these alternate cut & paste commands remove all formatting and styling, and they also use an alternative clipboard so you will not rewrite anything in the primary clipboard.Highlight the text and hit Control+K to ‘cut’ without formatting (rather than command+c).2: Remove Formatting with the Alternate Cut & Paste CommandsĪlternate what now? Many don’t know this, but other than Command+C and Command+V there are an alternate set of cut and paste commands available in Mac OS X that also use an alternate clipboard, but also have the added benefit of stripping formatting from copied text. Thanks to and others for pointing out this modifier sequence on twitter and in the comments, and thanks to Rob for clarifying the function. Notice the difference from the normal Command+V paste trick, which would include the formatting. Paste the copied text and match current style by using Command+Option+Shift+V.It’s just a variation of the normal copy & paste trick: There’s a modifier command to change how paste works so that it “matches style”, which if you’re pasting into a plain text document or a new email composition, will removes all font styles and formatting in that pasting process, regardless of what is stored in the clipboard. 1: Strip Styling & Formatting with a Special Paste & Match Style Command ![]()
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