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Paste Rich Text as Markdown

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Anton Sklyar

When rich text is pasted into NotePlan from the clipboard or shared from another app through the share screen, NotePlan could transform it into markdown to keep the formatting similar to the source.

Ideally, offer "Paste from... Rich Text / Plain Text"

March 8, 2021

Stacey

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Daniel Terhorst-North

Thanks for merging Eduard Metzger, I didn't see the duplicate.

Eduard Metzger

Merged in a post:

Paste rich text as Markdown

Daniel Terhorst-North

Pasting into NotePlan from e.g. MS Word, Evernote or an email just pastes the unformatted text.

Typora does a decent job of identifying H1, H2, H3, bullets, numbered lists, bold, italic, etc. I don't know if this is from a standard library but it is super useful!

My current workflow is:

Copy from source
Paste into Typora
"Copy as Markdown" (Cmd-Shift-C)
Paste into NotePlan

It's clunky but it works!

May 8, 2021

Eduard Metzger

Merged in a post:

Paste rich text into NotePlan as markdown

Jon Plummer

Just as it would be nice to get Rich Text out, it would be nice to safely out Rich Text in.

March 20, 2021

Jon Plummer

I like it too and accidentally posted the same thing elsewhere.

Eduard Metzger

Jon Plummer: Have merged it! Along with your vote.

Eduard Metzger

Anton Sklyar you mean when you copy Rich Text? Like bold rich text from say an Email or a website is copied, it should paste the markdown version?

Anton Sklyar

Eduard Metzger: Exactly! That would be very handy. It could be implemented in different ways: for example, Bear app just does that conversion automatically when you paste text from a website or email, whereas in Ulysses you have an option "Paste from" and can choose to paste from rich text or html.

Eduard Metzger

Anton Sklyar: Ok, got it. Have updated the title to clarify. I like this suggestion.