Ok, so I just realized that you can’t save files from Safari into plain text format. So, I fired up script editor and this is what I came up with. Just copy the text you want to the clipboard and then run this. It will launch textedit, paste in the text, convert it to plain text, and give you a save dialog. This is my first script so let me know what you think and maybe how I could have made it more efficient. Thanks and enjoy!
OS version: OS X
on do_menu(app_name, menu_name, menu_item)
try
-- bring the target application to the front
tell application app_name
activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell process app_name
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item menu_name
tell menu menu_name
click menu item menu_item
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
return true
on error error_message
return false
end try
end do_menu
do_menu("Textedit", "Edit", "Paste")
do_menu("Textedit", "Format", "Make Plain Text")
tell application "System Events"
tell process "textedit"
tell window "untitled"
if exists sheet 1 then
tell sheet 1
click button "ok"
end tell
end if
end tell
end tell
end tell
do_menu("Textedit", "File", "Save")