# Paste plain text

**URL:** <https://community.folivora.ai/t/paste-plain-text/23865>\
**Category:** Configuration Help & General Discussion\
**Created:** [August 28, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/paste-plain-text/23865 "2021-08-28T23:01:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Hombianer](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@Hombianer](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Hombianer)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/paste-plain-text/23865/1 "2021-08-28T23:01:41Z")

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BTT is new for me:  
how can I define 'paste plain text'?  
The standard short cut (shift-cmd-V) from apple is not working in all applications ....

I defined trigger with two actions: 1. show clipboard / history, 2. cmd-P  
With that it pops up shortly the clipboard - what I don't like

Following is not working: just the action 'specific element from clipboard' with plaintext

What to do?

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**Author:** ![Dirk](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@Dirk](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Dirk)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/paste-plain-text/23865/2 "2021-08-31T19:26:57Z")

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This works for me:

 ![Ohne Titel](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/5/b/5bc4d43a2ebbf4c70559811cc803f8ffba9b2749.png)

```auto
do shell script "pbpaste | pbcopy"
```