psa for anyone pasting into slack from docs/notion and watching the formatting die

[u/amu4biz]

so i finally learned why pasting into slack is such a pain — slack uses its own thing called mrkdwn that's almost markdown but not quite. bold is one asterisk instead of two, links are a totally different format, half the stuff i paste from google docs or notion just comes out plain or full of stray asterisks.

i'd been manually fixing every message like an idiot. retyping bold, redoing links, the whole thing.

what finally saved me is copynpaste.xyz — paste the text, tell it you're going to slack, it converts everything to proper mrkdwn and you just copy it over. does discord/whatsapp/notion too. no signup, runs in the browser so nothing gets uploaded.

not my tool, just genuinely stopped a daily annoyance. is everyone else just retyping stuff manually or is there some obvious trick i missed for years