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Filter Library & Paste Modes

Build local, reusable text recipes, preview the exact result, then copy or paste it from any Levelory workflow.

Always Paste Plain Text

Turn on Always Paste Plain Text in Settings when you want Levelory to remove styling by default. This is useful in terminals, editors, issue trackers, and forms where rich text is more noise than help.

Explore the three-column Library

Open Filter Library from the app menu or its global shortcut. The workspace keeps organization, selection, and editing separate:

  • The sidebar switches between All Filters, Built-ins, My Filters, and your groups.
  • The middle column searches and selects a built-in preset or saved recipe.
  • The detail column shows ordered operations and the live Before/After result.

Build and organize recipes

Built-in presets are read-only. Choose Duplicate to Edit when you want your own version. A saved filter can contain up to 32 ordered operations and can be moved into a user-created group.

  • Use New Filter to name a recipe, choose a group, and add operations.
  • Move operations up or down; they always run from top to bottom.
  • Assign an optional global shortcut to a saved filter.
  • Reorder groups and saved filters by dragging or with Move Up/Move Down.
  • Use Import Filter…, Finder, or Export… for a local .leveloryfilter backup or transfer. Imports open as an editable draft and are not saved until you confirm.

12 native operation types

  • Plain Text and Trim Whitespace
  • Change Case: uppercase, lowercase, or title case
  • Line Endings: LF, CR, or CRLF
  • Wrap / Unwrap Lines
  • Add Prefix & Suffix: whole text or every line
  • Find & Replace: literal, boundary, or regular expression matching
  • Smart / Straight Punctuation
  • Base64, Hex, HTML Entities, and URL Percent Encoding: encode or decode

Preview before you apply

When the Library is opened for a clipping, Levelory resolves its complete text payload instead of transforming the shortened history-row preview. Before starts with that text and remains editable for testing; After updates as you change the sample, operation order, or parameters. Previewing never changes the stored clipping.

Apply a filter anywhere

  • Filter Library: choose Copy Result or Paste Result.
  • Main Window: use a clipping's context menu to apply a filter, repeat the Last Filter, or open the clipping in Filter Library.
  • Quick Paste: use the row's filter action or context menu. Press Command-Return to open the filter picker for the selected row.
  • Last Filter: Main Window and Quick Paste repeat the recipe on the selected clipping; the global shortcut applies it to the current system clipboard item captured at invocation.
  • Saved-filter shortcut: invoke one recipe directly against the current filterable clipboard text.

If direct paste cannot complete, Levelory keeps the transformed result available and reports the paste failure instead of claiming success.

Local and predictable by design

Filter recipes are local SQLite configuration. Clear Clipboard Data removes captured content, derived state, the paste queue, and Last Filter usage, but preserves your groups, saved filters, and filter shortcuts.

To remove reusable recipes, choose Delete All User Filters… in Filter Library and confirm. This removes user groups, recipes, their shortcuts, and saved Last Filter references while keeping built-in presets available.

Levelory filters do not execute Shell Scripts or arbitrary processes, and Filter iCloud Sync is not included. Move recipes explicitly with .leveloryfilter import and export.