Forcing Named Clipboard to only accept plain text?

[JMichaelTX]

@derekvan

I would like to create a macro that copies a URL from an app's menu command (Agenda) and grabs the UUID from that URL. When I select the menu command in the app and paste it into a text field, I get the following:

agenda://note/D1BC0274-50D9-45B4-9222-D5EE79D42782

However, in Keyboard Maestro, what ends up on the clipboard is the title of the note as a hyperlink.

Is there some special reason you are using a KM Named Clipboard?
If the data you want is plain text, then it is almost always better to save it to a KM Variable. If you save it as a Global Variable then it will be available to all macros, and even across Mac restarts (just like files).

So, instead of this:

use this:

That should set the KM Variable "Agenda_URL" to the URL:
agenda://note/D1BC0274-50D9-45B4-9222-D5EE79D42782

You will need to adjust your Macro to use this KM Variable, rather than the Named Clipboard.

BTW, just to be clear on terms, what you want is the "URL", not the "UUID".

What you are seeing on the clipboard is usually referred to as a "hyperlink", like this:
Agenda - Date-focused Note Taking

Questions?