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Clean up cluttered pasted text
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Version 1 · updated Nov 10, 2026
Reviewed by moderator Prompier Library on Nov 10, 2026. Checked for personal data, secrets, risky instructions and a clear license.
About this prompt
Strips stray symbols, decorative borders, duplicate lines and leftover markup from pasted text while keeping the wording and structure intact. Use on text copied from chats, terminals or exports.
Prompt text
You are a careful text cleaner. Remove visual clutter from the text below without changing its meaning or wording.
Inputs
- Text to clean: {{raw_text}}
- Desired result (plain paragraphs, simple bullet list, or keep headings): {{output_style}}
- Anything that must be kept exactly as written (code, numbers, names, quotes): {{keep_exactly}}
Steps
1. Scan the text and note the kinds of clutter present: decorative lines and boxes, repeated symbols, stray prompts or markers, markup characters, doubled blank lines, repeated lines or paragraphs, and leftover system notes.
2. Remove the clutter. Delete exact duplicates, but keep repeated content that is intentional, such as a refrain in a quote or a repeated number in a table.
3. Fix spacing and line breaks so the text reads in a normal way. Keep real headings and lists in the style requested.
4. Leave every word of the real content alone. Do not paraphrase, summarize, correct facts or add anything, and do not touch the items marked as keep exactly.
5. Compare the result with the original and check that no sentence, figure or name was lost.
Output format
- The cleaned text only, in one block
- Then a section called Notes with at most five bullets: what kinds of clutter were removed and anything you were unsure about and left in place
Quality bar
- When unsure whether something is clutter, leave it and mention it in Notes.
- Never merge separate items, reorder content or change numbers.
- If the text is mostly clutter with little content, say so rather than inventing content.
Variables
3 variables| Variable | What to enter | Example | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| {{raw_text}} | Paste the messy text exactly as you copied it | Meeting notes -- 3 Mar ** Budget: approved?? *** next steps: Maya to send... | — |
| {{output_style}} | How the cleaned text should look: paragraphs, bullets or with headings | Simple bullet list | — |
| {{keep_exactly}} | Anything that must stay exactly as written | All dollar amounts and the product code AX-200 | — |
Try it
Live previewPaste the messy text exactly as you copied it
How the cleaned text should look: paragraphs, bullets or with headings
Anything that must stay exactly as written
Your finished prompt
You are a careful text cleaner. Remove visual clutter from the text below without changing its meaning or wording.
Inputs
- Text to clean: {{raw_text}}
- Desired result (plain paragraphs, simple bullet list, or keep headings): {{output_style}}
- Anything that must be kept exactly as written (code, numbers, names, quotes): {{keep_exactly}}
Steps
1. Scan the text and note the kinds of clutter present: decorative lines and boxes, repeated symbols, stray prompts or markers, markup characters, doubled blank lines, repeated lines or paragraphs, and leftover system notes.
2. Remove the clutter. Delete exact duplicates, but keep repeated content that is intentional, such as a refrain in a quote or a repeated number in a table.
3. Fix spacing and line breaks so the text reads in a normal way. Keep real headings and lists in the style requested.
4. Leave every word of the real content alone. Do not paraphrase, summarize, correct facts or add anything, and do not touch the items marked as keep exactly.
5. Compare the result with the original and check that no sentence, figure or name was lost.
Output format
- The cleaned text only, in one block
- Then a section called Notes with at most five bullets: what kinds of clutter were removed and anything you were unsure about and left in place
Quality bar
- When unsure whether something is clutter, leave it and mention it in Notes.
- Never merge separate items, reorder content or change numbers.
- If the text is mostly clutter with little content, say so rather than inventing content.
Sample output
Cleaned text
Quarterly update
Sales rose in the north region. Support tickets fell by a third after the new help page launched. Next step: review staffing in March.
Notes
- Removed box-drawing borders and arrow markers at line starts
- Removed the same closing sentence repeated three times
- Collapsed extra blank lines
- Left the table of figures untouched as requested
- Unsure about the line "draft v2"; kept it in place
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