2h ago
Title: Plain text paste is being converted into phone/date links
When I paste plain text into NotePlan, some lines are automatically converted into clickable phone or date links, even though the source text contains no phone number.
Example source text:
25.6.2022 - 7.30 - 17.30 - cutting fence, cleaning garden, 2 location
NotePlan converts it into something like:
[[tel:+4925620227301730|25.6.2022 - 7.30 - 17.30]] - cutting fence, cleaning garden, 2 location
This also happens when using Paste as Plain Text.
I am migrating a large archive from Obsidian and I need plain text paste to mean exactly that: paste the original characters without automatic conversion into phone links, date links, or calendar links.
Ideally, there should be either:
a setting to disable automatic phone/date detection completely, or
a “Paste literally / Paste without auto-detection” option that never modifies the pasted text.
This is important for archival notes containing dates, working hours, payments, mileage, historical records, etc., where values like dates and times should remain ordinary text.
For archive migration, preserving the original text byte-for-byte is more important than smart link detection.
Pending
Here is another real-world example of the same issue. Ordinary time and temperature values such as: 16.30 - 39,5 are converted into multiple tel: links: [[tel:+491630|]][[tel:+49163039;ext=5|16.30]] [[tel:+49163039;ext=5|- 39,5]] This happens across many lines in archived notes and makes them very difficult to migrate and read. This is why I would really like either a global option to disable automatic phone/date detection, or a Remove Formatting / Convert to Plain Text command for selected text.