Just b/c of a submit on HN 1 year ago, 2000+ people use this tool every month.

Re:Just b/c of a submit on HN 1 year ago, 2000+ people use t... by codfrantic on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @09:43AM (#6367071)

I know one: When I have some text from a website or a document with markup, I always paste it to Notepad++ and copy it again before I put it in a document. This way Word or Powerpoint or something isn't messing with existing formatting or anything(I know there are many options to paste without markup and so on but to me, this is just easiest :-) )

It keeping track of number of words / characters is not bad either ^_^.

I'll remember this if I'm ever on a machine without the option to install Notepad++ or something :)

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Re:Just b/c of a submit on HN 1 year ago, 2000+ people use t... by ominous on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @09:51AM (#6367118)

Personally, I just paste it either to the URL bar or with ctrl+shift+v (Chrome, Chromium) into a text field (thinking browser, writing an email)

ctrl+shift+v doesn't work with Google Hangouts, thought.

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Re:Just b/c of a submit on HN 1 year ago, 2000+ people use t... by antrix on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @10:08AM (#6367218)

I use a neat little utility called Puretext for this.

http://stevemiller.net/puretext/

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