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As a point of validation, I would use this even though I have know about AHK for years. I don’t have any interest in developing an AHK hobby and I value the specific single feature “strip non-bold/italic/underline/hyperlink formatting”. Thanks for making it :)

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Thanks!

That exact feature, keeping the structure (bold/italic...) but stripping the junk was actually the hardest part to build. It requires parsing the full object tree recursively to make it compatible with any app, instead of just doing simple text replacements.

I saw so many people looking for that "middle ground" that I basically built the whole app around it. Glad it resonates!

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