Raycast 2.0 clipboard formatting change derails daily work

Raycast 2.0 made clipboard history preserve and restore the original formatting when you paste. For long-time users who relied on plain-text pasting, that switch has turned routine copy-and-paste into a daily cleanup task—though plain-text workarounds exist.

Raycast has long been the kind of productivity app people install and then forget about—until an update lands and suddenly your workflow feels slightly… off.

That’s what happened to one long-time user after updating to Raycast 2.0. In the minutes after the update, they loved the new interface changes and most of the added features. Then they hit one specific change, and it hasn’t let go since.

The update centers on the clipboard history feature. In Raycast 2.0, the clipboard now saves the original format you copied and restores it when you paste. On paper, that sounds sensible: if you copy something from a website or a document with formatting, you get it back the way it was.

But the user says that—at least for their routine—the result has been a nightmare.

Before Raycast 2.0. copying text from a website or a document and pasting it somewhere would strip the formatting and deliver clean. plain text. That behavior made it easy to drop content into notes or documents without worrying about broken fonts. mismatched styles. or messy formatting “bleeding” into where they were writing.

After the update, Raycast reversed that default behavior. Now every paste comes with whatever formatting the source had. The user describes spending more time cleaning up pasted text than ever before, saying the new behavior has seriously hampered their workflow.

There’s a way around it. and it’s built into Raycast: when you bring up the clipboard manager and want to paste without formatting. you use a keyboard shortcut. Instead of the regular Enter, use Command + Control + Enter. The user says this pastes copied content as plain text and skips formatting entirely.

The problem is that the shortcut isn’t the default—and it hasn’t stuck yet. They’ve had days to practice, but they say they still haven’t built the muscle memory for it. What they want is simple: the ability to switch default pasting to plain text. while using the other shortcut when they specifically want formatting retained.

They also point to a separate option: a free Raycast extension called Clipboard Formatter, built by Josh Temple. That extension removes formatting from whatever text is currently in your clipboard and returns it as clean, plain text.

But the trade-off is workflow friction. The user says it doesn’t automatically strip formatting—you have to manually trigger it—so it adds another step on top of the clipboard behavior they now get by default.

Taken together, both solutions require user input. Their frustration is rooted in the small daily cost: they don’t just want a fix that works once—they want the default behavior to match the way they’ve been working for years.

The clipboard complaint sits inside a broader picture, though. The user says Raycast 2.0 is otherwise a genuinely great update.

AI Chat has been overhauled and now includes a Memory feature that picks up context over time. so conversations should start feeling more personal. File search now works inside root search, with results appearing faster and described as more accurate. Snippets and Quicklinks gained tagging support, which matters for anyone who has built a large collection over the years.

There’s also a brand-new dictation feature. It transcribes speech and pastes it directly into whatever app the user is working in, and it’s part of Raycast Pro.

So the advice is blunt but practical: yes, update to Raycast 2.0—but sort out the clipboard situation first.

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