![]() Settings for Siri Phrase, Widgets & Share Sheet Three-step Shortcut There are three simple steps to my Shortcut: The idea is to use Siri Shortcuts to perform the task. I did some of the Googles and found a solution that didn’t work very well, but after a bit of tweaking, I was able to improve on it. With many people, I assume they just didn’t try the obvious things, like a long hold with a finger to change what pasting options are there, but Steve is a reasonably bright fellow and of course, none of my obvious solution attempts panned out. I love Steve’s description of his notes looking like a ransom note with all the changes in formatting that really explains what a problem this can be. Is there a way to do this very obvious thing? I suspect a lot of people have this same question, which makes it a good candidate for Dumb Question Corner. But I have yet to find a means of pasting just plain text into the target app on iOS. On the Mac, you can always paste without (or match) style - or paste as plain text - by using the CMD-Option-Shift-V key combination (or select it from the Edit menu). ![]() And there are reasons (e.g., sharing and collaboration) for using Notes or OneNote - you can’t use Notability for everything. There are a few tools that strip away formatting when pasting in content (Notability, for example) - but it is hit-or-miss with most applications. I find this happens using Apple’s Notes, Microsoft OneNote, Pages, etc. More often than not, unless I jump through hoops, the end product looks a lot like a ransom note - with different font sizes, line spacing, fragments of a table, etc. Using my iPad, I frequently find myself putting together a document by drawing information from multiple sources (e.g., planning a vacation by copying and pasting information from various Web sites). I define great as “Clearly explained without an obvious answer, and yet I eventually figure it out.” Here’s Steve’s question: ![]() Steve Davidson sent in a great dumb question. ![]()
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