By
@Adammm
A terminal-style scratchpad and text-cleanup workbench. One HTML file, zero dependencies, runs anywhere, opensource HTML file. If you need help, there is a how to use txt file in the github linked below.
The problem:
You paste text from somewhere, a doc, a chat, a website ansd it comes with curly quotes, tracking URLs, awkward bullet characters, double blank lines, and non-breaking spaces that make your terminal or editor look like garbage. You also frequently need to do quick JSON formatting, CSV Markdown conversion, and case changes, but you don't want to open five different tools. And you always need a calculator sitting right there for quick unit math.
Clipbench solves all three of those annoyances in one file.
The 3 QoL improvements
Instant text cleanup Paste anything in. Curly quotes become straight quotes. Smart dashes, ellipses, and bullet characters get normalized. Whitespace collapses. URL tracking parameters (utm_*, fbclid, gclid, etc.) get stripped while keeping the actual URL intact. It runs live as you type, so the output is always ready.
Quick format converters --json toggles between pretty-print and minified JSON. --table converts CSV/TSV to Markdown tables and back. --case converts between Title Case, snake_case, camelCase, and kebab-case. All over the same input/output panes — no context switching.
Persistent scratch calculator Always-visible bar at the top for quick math (48*3.5), unit conversions (12in to cm, 5 miles to km), and timezone shifts (3pm PST to EST). Everything persists across page refreshes via localStorage.
(name was made from AI, so like sorry abt that)
Created the clean function using javascript to find and fix quotes, em dashes, whitespaces, and many other more cleaning functions on text. This was done by finding certain parts of a sentence and clearing it out by clearing the “unclean space” and then replacing it with whatever fix is needed to make the sentence more clean. An example is pasted into the image below. I also made all the buttons work using some JavaScript and HTML. I only needed to make two button since I can just copy and paste the original code to make extra buttons, the 2 different buttons are split between the left and right side on the image. The last thing I made was the scratchpad which can work as a conversion chart or a simple calculator for basic math like addition or multiplication.
Created basic UI and theme using simple html and CSS. Had some issues with the layering and had Gemini AI debug it for me. I decided to give the site a simple terminal theme since the vibe the functions like smart printing or pretty-print gave me a terminal feeling. The name came from AI since I couldnt really think of a good name for the project. Anyways I plan on working on the buttons and actual functions soon.
