- PureText

I get recipes (among many other things) in a daily RSS feed. My recipe folder was getting a bit large and I finally got around to printing recipe cards... the way I do it is by copying the recipe information into my own format in Microsoft Publisher. To do that, you have to remove all formatting or it pastes as a really messed up table. It's really irritating to have to paste into Notepad, then re-copy and paste into Publisher. If you use Firefox and Thunderbird, there's a nice extension that adds a right-click option for copying plain text, but IE of course isn't that advanced. I went on a search and found a really nifty (tiny) program called PureText. It sits in your systray and when you copy text, just click that before pasting - or use the keyboard shortcut. It saved me a huge amount of time doing these recipe cards.