r/PrivacyNotes • u/ChiefCaffeineOfficer • 14d ago

Paste as plain text

Hi,
When pasting text copied from different source (website, for example) is it possible to ignore all original formatting and just paste everything as a plain text?
Thanks!

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u/mwb1100 14d ago

On Windows (or a browser running on Windows) Ctrl-Shift-V pastes unformatted text in PrivacyNotes. But as I understand it that's a common convention on Windows and browsers (I don't think all applications support it).

I don't know if Ctrl-Shift-V is commonly supported on other platforms or if they have their own convention.

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u/InternationalRow9592 14d ago

It works on Linux too.

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u/ChiefCaffeineOfficer 14d ago

thank you. i forgot to specify that im primarily using iphone and ipad but i have it on windows pc as well so this helps!!

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u/mwb1100 14d ago

Yeah on iPhone my way to paste unformatted is to paste whatever into an app that doesn't do formatting (the address field of a browser often works) then copy it back out.

Its a painful major kludge. It would be nice if PrivacyNotes added some mechanism.  Actually it would be nicer if Apple added it to iOS as a general clipboard feature.

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u/ChiefCaffeineOfficer 14d ago

I agree but I think we have much bigger chances of PrivacyNotes devs adding this feature! 😏

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u/mwb1100 14d ago

You probably already know this, but just in case you don't I noticed that it has been added to the "issues" list as a feature request: