Paste Wrapped

Paste Wrapped is an Obsidian plugin that pastes clipboard text as a single line.

It is intended for text copied from PDFs, web pages, or other sources that hard-wrap paragraphs across multiple lines. The plugin reads the clipboard, collapses line breaks and surrounding whitespace into spaces, and inserts the result at the current editor selection.

Command

• Paste wrapped: Insert clipboard text into the active editor with embedded line breaks removed.

Usage

1. Copy text from another app.
2. In Obsidian, open the command palette.
3. Run Paste wrapped.

If the clipboard is empty or Obsidian cannot read it, the plugin shows a notice instead of changing the note.

Keyboard shortcut

You can assign a hotkey to the command from Obsidian's hotkeys settings:

1. Open Settings -> Hotkeys.
2. Search for Paste wrapped.
3. Select the plus button next to the command.
4. Press the keyboard shortcut you want to use.

After that, you can run Paste wrapped directly from the keyboard without opening the command palette.

Development

This plugin uses TypeScript and esbuild.

npm install
npm run dev

Create a production build with:

npm run build

Run lint checks with:

npm run lint

Install from GitHub

To install this plugin directly from the GitHub repository:

1. Clone this repository, or download and extract it from GitHub.
2. Run npm install in the project folder.
3. Run npm run build to generate the plugin files.
4. Copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css into your vault at .obsidian/plugins/paste-wrapped/.
5. Reload Obsidian and enable Paste Wrapped in Settings -> Community plugins.

Manual installation

Copy these files into your vault at .obsidian/plugins/paste-wrapped/:

• main.js
• manifest.json
• styles.css

Then reload Obsidian and enable Paste Wrapped in Settings -> Community plugins.