Turning a draft into clean plain text usually means fixing spacing and invisible characters without losing the punctuation style you chose on purpose.
Plain Text Formatter tidies spacing and strips invisible characters while leaving your quotes and dashes as they are.
How to use Plain Text Formatter
- Paste the draft you want formatted as plain text.
- Plain Text Formatter tidies spacing, removes invisible characters, and collapses blank lines.
- Leave quotes as they are or enable straightening, then copy the result.
Use cases
- Formatting notes into tidy plain text for a wiki.
- Cleaning spacing in a draft without altering its punctuation.
- Preparing prose as plain text while keeping curly quotes.
Good to know
Plain Text Formatter keeps spacing cleanup, invisible-character removal, and blank-line collapsing on, while quote straightening and HTML stripping start off. That preserves the punctuation style of prose while still tidying the layout. Enable the other steps only when you want them.
Frequently asked questions
Does it keep my curly quotes and long dashes?
Yes. Quote straightening is off by default, so your punctuation style is preserved unless you turn it on.
What spacing problems does it fix?
It collapses repeated spaces and tabs, trims line edges, and reduces runs of blank lines to a single gap.
Is HTML removed?
Not by default. HTML stripping is off here; enable it if your text actually contains tags.