1.3 Bring it in

Planned

Turn clipboard and drag/drop content into clean local documents.

After 1.0. Version numbers mark the intended order, not dates or paid upgrades; scope is provisional and may change with evidence and demand. Checked against the development repository on 15 October 2026.

In short

Getting content into a Markdown file is often the messy part. 1.3 turns what’s on the clipboard, or dragged in, into clean local documents.

Start a new document from the clipboard, with Markdown detected. Pasted and dropped images become local files whose names never clash. HTML and rich text convert to Markdown that you review before it lands, and it works the other way too: copy as rich text or HTML.

In practice

Drag a screenshot into a note: it’s saved as a local file next to your work, and a link to it goes in where you dropped it.

Why it isn’t simple

  • The clipboard holds several versions at once. Apps put plain text, rich text, HTML, images and file references on the clipboard, and they disagree about which. Choosing the right one, and guessing whether plain text is already Markdown, has to be easy to override.
  • Copied HTML is messy. Web pages and word processors bring nested styling, layout tables, inline styles and tracking markup. Turning that into tidy Markdown without losing meaning is why the result is shown for review first.
  • Pasted images become real files. Each one needs a name that can’t overwrite anything, a location that still works if the folder moves, and a link that is right even when the document hasn’t been saved yet and so has no folder.

What it won’t do

  • Conversions are shown for review before they change anything.
  • Plain text can always be pasted as plain text.

What it covers

1.3Bring it in

Planned

  • New from Clipboard with Markdown detection and plain-text escape
  • Paste/drag images into collision-safe local assets
  • Reviewable HTML/rich-text to Markdown
  • Copy As Rich Text/HTML

Depends on Shape the structure.

Product direction, October 2026Plan reference 1.3

Builds on

Leads to

Nothing else on the roadmap.

What the labels mean

Planned
an accepted direction; the detailed scope isn’t committed.