AltF Flow reference

Every step you can add to a text workflow

AltF Flow has 41 step types covering 64 operations, grouped below by what they do. Each step takes the text from the step above it, so the order matters: clean first, then sort or dedupe, then build the final format. Every step runs in your browser.

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Every step you can add (41)

Clean up

Trim whitespace
Remove spaces and blank lines from the start and end of the whole text.
Trim every line
Remove leading and trailing spaces from each line.
Remove empty lines
Delete blank lines, or squeeze runs of blank lines down to one so paragraphs stay apart.
Options: Mode (Remove all, Keep one between paragraphs)
Collapse repeated spaces
Turn runs of spaces and tabs into a single space.
Remove line breaks
Join everything into one line, replacing each line break with a space.
Strip HTML tags
Remove tags, scripts and styles, keeping the readable text.
Straighten smart quotes
Replace curly quotes, dashes and ellipses pasted from Word or Docs with plain ASCII.
Remove accents
Turn é into e, ñ into n and so on.
Remove punctuation
Delete punctuation and symbols, keeping letters, numbers and spaces.
Remove emoji
Delete emoji and pictographs.
Remove non-ASCII characters
Keep only plain ASCII characters, for systems that reject anything else.

Change case

Change case
UPPER, lower, Title, Sentence, camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, kebab-case or CONSTANT_CASE.
Options: Case (UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, Sentence case, camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, kebab-case, CONSTANT_CASE, iNVERT cASE)
Make URL slugs
Turn each line into a lowercase, hyphenated URL slug.

Lines

Sort lines
Sort A to Z, Z to A, naturally (2 before 10), by number or by length.
Options: Sort by (Alphabetical, Natural (2 before 10), Case-sensitive, Number value, Line length); Order (Ascending, Descending)
Remove duplicate lines
Keep the first copy of each line and drop repeats.
Options: Ignore case and edge spaces
Keep only duplicated lines
Show each line that appears more than once, one copy each.
Compare with another list
Paste a second list and keep the lines only in yours, only in the other, or in both.
Options: Other list (one item per line); Keep (Only in my input, Only in the other list, In both lists, Combined, no repeats); Ignore case and edge spaces
Count repeated lines
List each distinct line with how many times it appears, most frequent first.
Options: Format (3 apple, apple: 3, apple,3 (CSV))
Reverse line order
Put the last line first.
Shuffle lines
Randomise the order. The same seed always gives the same order, so a saved recipe is repeatable.
Options: Seed
Keep a range of lines
Keep the first N lines, the last N lines, or skip a header.
Options: Keep (First N lines, Last N lines, All but the first N); N
Truncate long lines
Cut every line to a maximum length, optionally adding an ellipsis.
Options: Max characters; Add …
Wrap at a width
Hard-wrap long lines at word boundaries, e.g. 280 for posts or 72 for commit messages.
Options: Width
Split into lines
Break text on a separator (comma by default) so each item gets its own line.
Options: Separator; Trim items
Join lines
Combine all lines into one, with a separator such as ", " or " | ".
Options: Separator

Find and filter

Find and replace
Replace text everywhere. Supports regular expressions with $1 back-references.
Options: Find; Replace with; Regular expression; Ignore case
Filter lines
Keep or remove lines that contain a word or match a pattern.
Options: Lines that match (Keep, Remove); Contains; Regular expression; Ignore case
Remove words or characters
Delete every occurrence of the listed words or characters (comma-separated).
Options: Remove; Ignore case

Extract

Extract
Pull out URLs, emails, domains, numbers, hashtags, @mentions, IPv4 addresses or phone numbers, one per line.
Options: What (URLs, Email addresses, Domains (from URLs), Numbers, Hashtags, @mentions, IPv4 addresses, Phone numbers)

Data and formats

Format JSON
Pretty-print JSON with indentation, optionally sorting keys.
Options: Indent (2 spaces, 4 spaces, Tab); Sort keys A-Z
Minify JSON
Remove all whitespace from JSON.
CSV to JSON
Turn CSV (with a header row) into a JSON array of objects.
Options: Delimiter (Comma, Semicolon, Tab, Pipe); First row is a header
JSON to CSV
Turn a JSON array of objects into CSV with a header row.
Options: Delimiter (Comma, Semicolon, Tab, Pipe)
Lines to JSON array
Turn each line into a string in a JSON array.
JSON array to lines
Turn a JSON array into one item per line (objects are written as compact JSON).

Encode and decode

Encode or decode
URL, Base64, HTML entity and JSON string encoding, both directions.
Options: Mode (URL encode, URL decode, Base64 encode, Base64 decode, HTML escape, HTML unescape, JSON string escape, JSON string unescape)

Build output

Add prefix / suffix
Add text before and after every line, or around the whole result.
Options: Prefix; Suffix; Apply to (Each line, Whole text)
Quote each line
Wrap each line in quotes and escape quotes inside - ready for SQL IN lists, arrays or CSV.
Options: Quote ('single', "double", `backtick`)
Number lines
Put 1., 2., 3. (or any separator) in front of each line.
Options: Start at; After number; Skip empty lines
Apply a line template
Rewrite each line with a template. {line} is the line, {n} its number, {upper}, {lower} and {slug} are variants.
Options: Template
Add timestamp
Put the current date and time (ISO 8601, UTC) at the top or bottom.
Options: Position (Top, Bottom)

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22 ready-made text workflows

Each recipe opens with the steps already in place and sample text loaded, so you can see the result before pasting your own.

Marketing and email lists

Turn messy contact exports and campaign links into clean, deduplicated lists ready to import.

Clean an email listPaste a messy contact export and get one lowercase email per line with duplicates removed and sorted A-Z. Runs in your browser, nothing uploaded.
  1. Extract
  2. Change case
  3. Remove duplicate lines
  4. Sort lines
Add UTM tags to URLsStrip old query strings, remove blank lines and duplicates, then append the same UTM tags to every URL in a pasted list. Free and private.
  1. Trim every line
  2. Remove empty lines
  3. Find and replace
  4. Remove duplicate lines
  5. +1 more
Split a comma list into linesTurn comma separated tags or contacts from several rows into one item per line, trimmed, with blanks and case-insensitive duplicates removed.
  1. Find and replace
  2. Split into lines
  3. Remove empty lines
  4. Remove duplicate lines
  5. +1 more

SEO and keywords

Tidy keyword exports, pull domains from backlink lists and make slugs from titles.

Keyword list cleanerClean keyword research exports: trim spaces, collapse gaps, lowercase, drop blanks, remove duplicates and sort A-Z in one reusable workflow.
  1. Trim every line
  2. Collapse repeated spaces
  3. Change case
  4. Remove empty lines
  5. +2 more
Unique domains from URLsPull the domain out of every URL in pasted text, drop www, remove duplicates and sort A-Z. Useful for backlink lists, referrers and outreach.
  1. Extract
  2. Remove duplicate lines
  3. Sort lines
Titles to URL slugsTurn many page or post titles into lowercase, hyphenated URL slugs at once, with accents removed, & turned into and, and duplicates dropped.
  1. Trim every line
  2. Remove empty lines
  3. Make URL slugs
  4. Remove duplicate lines
Extract links from HTMLPaste HTML source and list every http and https link, with CSS, JS and image files filtered out, duplicates removed and the list sorted.
  1. Extract
  2. Filter lines
  3. Remove duplicate lines
  4. Sort lines

Developers and data

Build SQL lists, convert CSV and JSON, decode payloads and cut logs down to the errors.

List to SQL IN clauseTurn a pasted column of IDs or codes into a SQL IN (...) list: trimmed, deduped, single-quoted with apostrophes escaped and joined with commas.
  1. Trim every line
  2. Remove empty lines
  3. Remove duplicate lines
  4. Quote each line
  5. +2 more
CSV to JSON with cleanupTrim stray spaces around CSV values and drop blank rows before converting to a JSON array of objects keyed by the header row. Runs locally.
  1. Trim whitespace
  2. Remove empty lines
  3. Trim every line
  4. Find and replace
  5. +1 more
JSON to CSV, sorted columnsConvert a JSON array of objects to CSV with a header row, sorting keys first so columns come out in a predictable A-Z order. Free, no upload.
  1. Format JSON
  2. JSON to CSV
Base64 to pretty JSONPaste a Base64 or Base64url string, including wrapped lines, and get readable, indented JSON. Useful for webhook payloads and encoded configs.
  1. Encode or decode
  2. Format JSON
Filter errors from a logKeep only ERROR and FATAL log lines, strip timestamps, mask numbers and dedupe, so a long log shrinks to the distinct errors that happened.
  1. Filter lines
  2. Find and replace
  3. Find and replace
  4. Remove duplicate lines
Wrap text at 72 charactersTrim a commit message or plain-text email, squeeze extra blank lines to one and hard wrap every paragraph at 72 characters on word boundaries.
  1. Trim whitespace
  2. Remove empty lines
  3. Wrap at a width

Writers and editors

Fix text pasted from PDFs, Word and web pages, and turn plain lists into formatted ones.

Clean text copied from a PDFRejoin hyphenated words, merge broken lines into paragraphs, straighten quotes and collapse spaces in text copied from a PDF. Paragraphs are kept.
  1. Trim every line
  2. Straighten smart quotes
  3. Find and replace
  4. Find and replace
  5. +1 more
Clean text pasted from WordStraighten smart quotes, dashes and ellipses, delete zero-width characters and soft hyphens, collapse spaces and tidy blank lines in pasted text.
  1. Straighten smart quotes
  2. Find and replace
  3. Collapse repeated spaces
  4. Trim every line
  5. +1 more
Strip HTML to plain textRemove tags, scripts and styles from pasted HTML, decode entities like & and  , trim lines and keep paragraph breaks as blank lines.
  1. Strip HTML tags
  2. Encode or decode
  3. Trim every line
  4. Remove empty lines
  5. +1 more
Markdown checklist from a listPaste a plain, bulleted or numbered list and get a Markdown task list with - [ ] checkboxes, ready for GitHub, Obsidian, Notion or a README.
  1. Trim every line
  2. Remove empty lines
  3. Find and replace
  4. Add prefix / suffix
HTML list from linesTurn plain lines into a ready-to-paste HTML <ul> list: blanks removed, special characters escaped and each line wrapped in an <li> tag.
  1. Trim every line
  2. Remove empty lines
  3. Encode or decode
  4. Apply a line template
  5. +1 more
Number or renumber a listStrip old or broken numbers from each line, drop blank lines and number the list again from 1. Works for steps, agendas and ranked lists.
  1. Trim every line
  2. Remove empty lines
  3. Find and replace
  4. Number lines

Social media

Collect hashtags, turn keywords into tags and split long text into post-sized pieces.

Extract hashtags from textPull every hashtag out of pasted posts, captions or comments, lowercase them, remove duplicates and join them into one space-separated line.
  1. Extract
  2. Change case
  3. Remove duplicate lines
  4. Join lines
Turn keywords into hashtagsConvert keywords or phrases into readable CamelCase hashtags: spaces and punctuation removed, duplicates dropped, # added and joined on one line.
  1. Remove empty lines
  2. Change case
  3. Remove punctuation
  4. Remove duplicate lines
  5. +2 more
Split text into numbered postsJoin a long draft into one paragraph, wrap it at word boundaries into pieces of about 270 characters and number each piece for a thread.
  1. Remove line breaks
  2. Collapse repeated spaces
  3. Wrap at a width
  4. Number lines

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Text cleanup

Single-purpose tools for spaces, line breaks and hidden characters.

Lists and lines

Sort, dedupe, number and slice line-based lists.

Data formats

Convert and format CSV, JSON, XML and YAML.

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