About

A narrow tool for plain text

PlainSift cleans and restructures lists with explicit operations that run inside a private browser workspace.

What it is

PlainSift is a static set of 16 list operations and a pipeline that can combine up to ten of them. It keeps transformations reviewable: you paste source text, choose steps, run them deliberately, and see the complete output before copying or downloading it.

The public guide is hosted separately from the workspace. That cross-origin boundary prevents the public page from reading pasted text. The workspace has no advertising, analytics, remote fonts, user accounts, storage, or network connection for processing.

What it is not

PlainSift is not an AI writing service, a CSV parser, a publishing platform, or a place to save and share documents. It does not infer intent, correct spelling, translate text, or send content to a model. Shuffle is the only intentionally nondeterministic operation.

Operation

The site is operated under the name PlainSift. Privacy, security, legal, and factual correction messages can be sent to [email protected].

How we check the guides

Our practical guides use small examples you can reproduce. Automated checks run each documented sequence through the same transformations used by the workspace and compare the result with the published output. The instructions explain where plain-text processing stops being suitable, including multiline spreadsheet cells and quoted CSV.

Found an example that does not match your result? Send a correctionwith the tool name and a non-sensitive sample that reproduces the issue.