Another year on, I’d like to resuscitate this feature request, and tack on a list of other posts about the same desire.
- Copying from Obsidian Preview also copies the background color
- Could the copy command copy plain text only?
- Copy text with formatting or give options
- Issues exporting copying formatted notes to email
When I want to take text from Obsidian to a HTML/rich-text editor (say, writing an email or in a Google Docs), my current workflow is to open the markdown file in Typora, and use Typora’s Copy without Theme Styling feature. It would be nice to not have to open another app.
Another workaround is to use a command line approach like this, where you copy the markdown, and then run the clipboard through pandoc when you paste it. (Making this a service on macOS would be convenient, but Obsidian, and really Electron, doesn’t allow the use of Services. The conversion, then, would either need to take place when you paste it, given the app you’re pasting into has services enabled, or you would have to open Terminal between copying and pasting.)