Extra space (leading space) on auto-paste at the start of every transcript

Every time Monologue pastes into Obsidian or Apple Notes after finalizing the transcription, it adds an extra space before pasting the text.

For example, instead of “[text from transcription]”, it does “ [text from transcription]”.

See below:

This extra space is not there when you copy and paste the transcript manually from Monologue’s app, so it has something to do with MacOS.

After (letting ChatGPT do) some research, this seems to be an issue related to the macOS’s Smart Insert/Delete (Smart Copy/Paste) feature, which users cannot disable themselves within MacOS (I tried this in the edit menu and keyboard settings, but turning it off there didn’t solve it).

Apparently this can be resolved if, instead of pasting of the transcript, with a “type out / simulate keystrokes” or “send text as keystrokes” mode in Monologue, like MacWhisper has, which bypasses Apple's built-in functionality that adds the extra space.

For me, this bug is specific to Apple Notes and Obsidian for me, but it does not occur in ChatGPT or apps like Notion. Since it happens with every transcript, it quickly becomes quite annoying to remove manually.

For people who need a solution for the time being, Obsidian has a Linter plugin that can remove leading and trailing spaces, so this is a temporary fix for the time being (or switch to Notion I guess?)