Clean pasted text of junk symbols, duplicates, and links
Strip decorative characters, repeated lines, leftover markup, and URLs from copied text while keeping every meaningful word.
The prompt
Clean up the text below so only the meaningful content remains.
Text: [PASTE TEXT]
Where it came from: [e.g. "AI chat output", "PDF copy-paste", "web page", "exported notes"]
Remove URLs? [yes - delete them / yes - keep the link text only / no]
Keep formatting for: [plain text / Markdown / email]
Remove:
- Decorative characters and box-drawing symbols (e.g. ░ ═ │ ■ >>> ###) and divider lines.
- Leftover markup or placeholders that carry no meaning (e.g. "null", "{...}", stray HTML tags, "### start ###").
- Exact or near-exact repeated lines, headings, and paragraphs (keep the first, most complete version).
- Broken line breaks in the middle of sentences, extra blank lines, and double spaces.
- URLs, if I asked for that, in any form (http, https, www, bare domains).
Keep:
- Every sentence that carries meaning, word for word. Do not summarize, shorten, reword, or fix grammar.
- Headings, paragraphs, numbered steps, and bullet lists that show the real structure.
- Numbers, names, code snippets, and quotes exactly as written.
Return:
1. The cleaned text only, ready to paste.
2. A short list of what you removed (e.g. "14 divider lines, 3 duplicated paragraphs, 6 URLs") and anything you were unsure about, so I can check it.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- PASTE TEXT
- yes - delete them / yes - keep the link text only / no
- plain text / Markdown / email
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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