Hello, I would like to prepare texts in Obsidian for work and then copy/paste them into emails. I cannot find a solution to the following problem:
If I start a line with a date, this number is changed to a numbered list. For example, I write “24. Nov” (German format) and Obsidian changes it to “1. Nov”.
If I use a backslash, my document is full of backslashes. If I copy the text and paste it into my mail program with SHIFT+CMD+V, the exact same formatting appears in the mail. With [[[links]] and #Headings and \Date.
How can I paste unformatted text, or at least WITHOUT backslash, into my mail?
Indeed, I see no such thing in native commands. We need a Copy as Plain Text command similar to Typora (which I always open when I need copy-and-paste to various apps like browser embedded HTML editors with Copy as HTML).
I could not find a plugin that does this either (only Copy document as HTML and even stripping HTML headers it’s still too much, adding <div><p> and other formattings you don’t want). So the fastest for me is to copy-paste to Typora then from there, Copy as Plain Text…
I think we should open a Feature request.
My use case: writing game scripts in .md, I have to escape characters such as * on line start to avoid showing the line in italics while editing - but not keep the backslash when pasting script into actual game script used by the engine.