URLs recently started pasting as full markdown with the url cloned in the title area too

It used to just paste
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/blah

Now it pastes
[https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/blah](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/blah)

Itā€™s super annoying when youā€™re typing markdown and paste the url part just to end up with
[That one email]([https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/blah](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/blah))

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True. It is really annoying. I have to delete the first URL manually every time.

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Yup. I also have noticed this same issue. Thanks!

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Same here.

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Same here. Could you please fix this, Dynalist?

In the meantime Iā€™ll use Command āŒ˜ + Shift ā‡§ + V to paste all my URLā€™s. Problem solved.

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Thanks for the tip of pasting without formatting. Ctrl-Shift-V works perfectly in Windows.

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Yes this is really frustrating - especially for raw URLs. Any update on when itā€™ll be fixed?

Until itā€™s fixed - learn to use the hotkey on your computer for ā€œunformatted pasteā€. Itā€™s useful to know anyway. Ever since this bug appeared Iā€™ve gotten more used to doing it, itā€™s useful in Google Docs too.

Iā€™d also like to note that I find this bug super annoying and hope it gets fixed soon. The workaround the George3 mentioned does work, but itā€™s really hard to retrain yourself to do a standard operation like pasting differently than youā€™ve been doing it for 15 years just for one app.

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I agree with all the other commenters, itā€™s very annoying. Multiple times everyday I find myself doing cmd+v, realizing it pasted in markdown so hitting cmd+z, then pasting unformatted with cmd+shift+vā€¦

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Happens to me too.

Another version of this bug was closed by a mod because they said the issue only happens if we copy a ā€˜clickableā€™ link ā€“ if we copied a clean link it would paste a clean link.

For me, this happens when I copy links from the Chrome address bar, which I expect to be clean (maybe Chrome makes them unclean ā€“ but I think Dynalist should treat them as clean regardless).

It might help this bug get fixed if people share the places where theyā€™re copying links from which cause them to see markdown links. Is it mostly with Chrome that other people are having issues too?

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This behavior is extremely annoying, and I came to the forum today to report it if no else had. Steps to repro (itā€™s a ā€œcleanā€ URL, @Erica)

  1. Microsoft Edge 77.0.223.0, macOS 10.14.6
  2. Cmd-L to jump to address bar, Cmd-C to copy URL
  3. Paste into Dynalist

Product needlessly creates a formatted MD URL instead of a clean one:

[https://talk.dynalist.io/t/urls-recently-started-pasting-as-full-markdown-with-the-url-cloned-in-the-title-area-too/4582](https://talk.dynalist.io/t/urls-recently-started-pasting-as-full-markdown-with-the-url-cloned-in-the-title-area-too/4582)

Please fix this so that only the URL gets pasted, which is what Iā€™m pretty sure it did before. URLs a thing Iā€™m putting into DL all day long.

Waitā€¦

ā€¦is this actually a new bug feature in Chrome? Did dynalist not even change anything? https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/2848304?hl=en

Maybe weā€™re blaming the wrong company haha

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We didnā€™t change anything, it looks like Chrome (and maybe other browsers) want the URLs to be pasted with a title now :frowning:

Iā€™ve been personally using Ctrl+Shift+V as well.

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@Erica would it be possible to check if the text and URL are the same when pasting the hyperlink, and if so only paste the URL in plaintext?

I got tired of using the plain paste workaround, so fixed the problem with the indispensable Keyboard Maestro. I hope those of you on macOS will find this useful.

This macro monitors clipboard for when thereā€™s only a URL in it, and then converts the clipboard from HTML to plain text. I have it in a group thatā€™s active in browsers only. It wonā€™t let me attach it to this post, so in my Dropbox public folder instead.

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Update: fixed on our end, going out in a few days on web app, a little later for other platforms.

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I can confirm this is fixed for Chrome on Mac and Windows!

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Thank you Jayden!