Yesterday, I ran across This Post by Michael Swanson, where he pointed out the sweet little utility, PureText from Steve Miller. The idea behind PureText is that it will strip all of the formatting code out of anything in your clipboard, so you can avoid having to paste into Notepad and re-copy, to get rid of the formatting.
Inspired by the idea, I decided to take a crack at my own little version of the application, and while it's not nearly as robust, I've managed to come up with a little VB.NET program that I call “CopyCleaner”. It functions in a similar manner - you press “win-v” and it cleans out the clipboard, then automatically pastes the resulting plain text into whatever application currently has focus on your system.
As soon as I get it packaged up into an MSI file, I'll post a link to it on my blog and let the world have at it. I'll probably have a download for the sourcecode, under the BSD License as well.
Update: I've released my CopyCleaner applications, which does the same basic thing. It was a fun one to write.