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Back in August, I introduced you to Plain Clip ( ; www.bluem.net/downloads/plain-clip_en ), a one-trick pony whose one trick happens to be incredibly useful to many people: It strips text of all formatting so you can copy formatted text and then paste it as plain text. I received a lot of good feedback on that recommendation, leading me to the conclusion that some people spend a lot of time “cleaning up” text.
Unfortunately, styled text is often the least of your concerns; a bigger issue is messy text—text copied from an email, website, or PDF that’s littered with odd characters, hard returns, quote marks (>), unnecessary spaces, and who knows what else. If this sounds familiar, you need to check out Unmarked Software’s $25 textSOAP ( ; www.unmarked.com; family and business licenses also available).
As its name implies, textSOAP cleans your text, but much faster than you could ever do using your mouse, arrow keys, and delete key. Simply paste your text into the textSOAP text window and then select your favorite cleaner —a set of rules that tells textSOAP exactly what you want done with your text—and your text is clean as a whistle, ready to be pasted wherever you like. The available cleaners range from the simple to the comprehensive. For example, Spaces replaces multiple contiguous spaces with a single space, Forwarding removes those pesky forwarding characters (>) from email text, and cleaners like Uppercase , Capitalize Words , and Straighten Quotes let you manipulate case and formatting. More complex cleaners include SCRUB , which strips spaces, forwarding characters, line feeds, and paragraphs all at once, as well as converting Hex designations (such as the %20 or =20 gunk you often see in email) to their ASCII equivalents (in this case, a space). It’s quite pleasing to see a mess of forwarded text instantly transform into a nice, neat paragraph.
All of these cleaners are very useful, but what won me over is the ability to create custom cleaners. You can create your own cleaners that include any number of combinations of the following actions, in any order:
I’ve started using a custom cleaner for writing Mac Gems and it’s a major time saver. For example, after writing an article, I need to replace all quote marks (‘,”) and dashes (–) with the HTML code for their fancy equivalents (’,“, —), as well as convert a few other text items to special characters or graphical equivalents. I’ve set up a custom cleaner to do all this dirty work for me with a single click.
If having to paste your text into the textSOAP window sounds like a hassle, textSOAP offers at least four other ways to clean text without such a step. In applications that support contextual menus, you simply highlight your text, right/control-click to bring up the contextual menu, and then choose the desired cleaner from the textSOAP item. In applications that support Mac OS X’s Services, you can instead select the desired cleaner from the Services submenu. In supported applications—including BBEdit, MailSmith, and Eudora—textSOAP actually provides a palette listing all your cleaners; just select some text and click a button. Finally, textSOAP is AppleScriptable, so if you frequently work with text in an AppleScript-aware application, you can call textSOAP cleaners from within your scripts—a killer feature for streamlining your workflow.
If you frequently spend time working with messy text, a little textSOAP makes the cleaning easier. (If you don’t spend any time cleaning up text, trust me: The recipients of your emails and documents will appreciate textSOAP more than you do.)
If you’ve ever looked at a piece of writing and thought, “I wish there was a spell check for everything,” TextSoap has been waiting for you. Built to save the sanity of sleep-deprived students and overloaded paralegals alike, it’s a comprehensive text cleaner for grammar and punctuation that gives depositions and dissertations alike a much-needed scrubbing.
The whole text cleanup process is as simple as copying the text into TextSoap’s built-in word processor and choosing the transformation you’d like to make. The app comes complete with dozens of common grammar and punctuation fixes, and supports custom scripting with regular expressions, so you can be sure to catch your most common mistakes. Or wait, is it “you’re”? Here’s how to put TextSoap to use.
Employ text cleanup first
To clean up or alter a piece of text, copy and paste it into the app window using keyboard shortcuts or the Paste Over button. Once the text appears, click any operation from the list on the right-hand side of the screen to apply it.
If you can’t locate the specific cleaner you’re looking for, use the search bar at the top to find it with ease. To find and replace specific words or phrases, click the Magnifying Glass icon and fill out the fields.
Use text cleaner groups
The app conveniently sorts its cleaners into easy-to-navigate groups according to function. The drop-down menu at the top of the sidebar gives you quick access to the palette of cleaners that fits the task at hand.
For instance, if you’re getting ready to publish a piece of writing online, the Markdown or HTML groups can streamline the task of formatting.
Customize text cleaners too
There’s a lot you can accomplish with the pre-loaded cleaners, but you also have the option to create your own. Click the Custom Cleaners & Groups tab and press + to bring up the customization menu. Drag and drop individual components from the list at left to create new and useful combinations!
Use batch cleaning
Sometimes you have to scale up — TextSoap has you covered. Open the File menu and click Batch File Cleaning, then add as many files as you’d like to clean to the table at right. Then, use the drop-down Cleaner menu to choose a transformation to apply to all of them at once. To start scrubbing, click Process Files.
Tiny formatting adjustments don’t have to eat up your whole working life. Sit back and let TextSoap, available on Setapp, take care of the grunt work.
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