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Mar 11

Copy Note as Rich Text or HTML for Emails/Word/Other Rich text apps

So it's easier to send a note to someone or get the note into another app, like Google Docs. Current workarounds: Copying the text from NotePlan first into… - StackEdit - Notion … and then into Email or Google docs, etc.
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Mar 9, 2022

Will be available in the next update. Already available as beta on Discord!

Mar 10, 2022

Eduard Metzger: Fantastic, thanks Eduard. Can you assign this to Cmd-Shift-C please? I guess I can do this myself in the system Keyboard Shortcuts in the meantime. [Edit]: It looks like "Copy as RTF" is in the context menu for the note, but not in the main menus under Edit or Note, so I can't assign a shortcut from System Prefs -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts.

May 5, 2022

Daniel Terhorst-North: Good point, have added it.

Feb 4, 2022

Copy (and export) as RTF is added in the alpha version supporting tasks, bullets, etc and images. File attachments are still missing and testing.

Feb 4, 2022

Thanks for sharing, do you mean copy as RTF, or HTML? You have an idea how iA Writer is handling this? Copy as RTF is coming to v3.5.

Jan 26, 2022

I definitely would like to have this. I like creating document outlines in notes and then want to export to Google Docs formatted, so that I can edit a document to share with others.

Sep 12, 2021

Hi Todd — this is one of my biggest requests, too! I made a similar request here if you'd like to vote that up: https://noteplan.canny.io/plugins-scripting/p/export-options…

Sep 12, 2021

Stacey: Oh, wow -- nice! Upvoted. :)

Sep 7, 2021

For those of you who want this now, you can use the `copyToHtml` or `copyToRtf` command in codedungeon.Toolbox

Sep 1, 2021

Perhaps this should be a feature request somewhere else but I would be fine with a right-click option to open in default app. (I use Marked 2, which offers a lot more export options than you are likely to be able to integrate into NotePlan, and right now I have to right-click to show in Finder, then open the doc in Marked 2.)

Jul 16, 2021

Damian Roskill have merged your request with this one. Then you could copy as rich text and paste it in word. I think this would solve the problem?

Jul 16, 2021

Eduard Metzger: Yup - thanks!

Jul 19, 2021

Damian Roskill: Cool thanks

Jul 16, 2021

PDF is working, if you use the print function, but then say "Save as PDF". Word needs Rich text support, I think.

Apr 19, 2021

HTML with DataURI for images would be my preferred solution. One self-contained file. No external references. No additional formatting, just the Markup created with Markdown. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme - https://caniuse.com/datauri But I haven't tested it yet with Google Docs or MS Word or LibreOffice.

Apr 18, 2021

This is a minimum requirement for a note taking app. The export needs to be able to support Images also. Bear does this very well, has the ability to copy text as HTML/Markdown/Rich Text - which includes images.

Apr 19, 2021

User36843: How does Bear handle images in HTML?

Apr 19, 2021

Rhubarb: Bear handles images similarly - they show up in-line and not resizable, much like NP3. But it does have Copy As -> Rich Text option which does what it says, images and all formatting get copied as-expected. There's a Paste From option with similar options - this has been extremely useful for interoperability with other applications/formats. Edit: HTML copy has an img src tag pointing to 'images/unique-id.png'

Apr 19, 2021

User36843: I don't miss this functionality on my Mac, because I access Noteplan's files directly with my other favorite Markdown tools: Marked for quick rendering and export, iA Writer for complex editing, Obsidian for complex linking. iOS is a different story.

Apr 19, 2021

Rhubarb: This is interesting - are any of the tools able to render the inline images? I tried Marked 2 but it didn't render the images.

Apr 8, 2021

This seems closely related to the request to be able to copy/paste rich text.

Apr 6, 2021

Or a simple `export` option on each note which lets you choose from `html`, `rtf`, `docx`, etc as options. This is similar to what Bear Notes and others already do.

May 10, 2021

Naman Goel: Both export and copy are useful. Exporting and then attaching/copying is an extra step if you just want to copy "what you see" in NotePlan into an email or doc, say.