Does exactly what it says on the package. So that's awesome. I also quite like that it's unobtrusive and doesn't take up space in dock and/or menubar.

I set up a shortcut (Command/Shift-C) with Spark (that was installed on my system prior to PlainClip anyway) which I can use right after Command-C so my workflow to get rid of formatting of copied text basically consists of two shortcuts. But wait...

The moment I hit the assigned shortcut for Plain Text (Command/Shift-C) however, the preference pane of Plain Text shows up which needs to be confirmed. Since I don't need to change preferences concerning the format of the clipboard content in 99 out of 100 times I could easily do without the preference pane showing up whenever I need to get rid of formatting. In fact that would make this little app even more unobtrusive and a joy to use.

Please consider incorporating a means of setting up global preferences (i.e. via system preference pane like Growl or FinderPop).

And thanks for making this free!

If you want to make it quick, use Freeware Spark (Shortcut app) and this AppleScript:

try
set the clipboard to string of (the clipboard as record)
on error errMsg
display dialog errMsg
end try

Version 2.0 launches then quits a second later (observed in Activity Monitor, 10.4.11 PPC).

Works just as it says. Very useful. Saves me a lot of time!