Greetings eveyone! I'm Siddhant Sehgal from India and this summer I'll be working with Joplin on the Paste Special plugin! This proposal draws from this forum thread . Big thanks! Summary This will be a Paste Special Plugin for pasting formatted text and provide sub-menu options inside it as discu…

Analyzing different file formats and extracting patterns for conversion into Markdown on Desktop Client of Jopline I feel this could take time, maybe it will take only 2 weeks, or it could be 3 or more, and that would delay the rest of the project. However, while this part is important, it's not …

[image] laurent: I feel this could take time, maybe it will take only 2 weeks, or it could be 3 or more, and that would delay the rest of the project. However, while this part is important, it's not crucial for the project. You could for example start by supporting CSV import only, and write the…

Indeed, and if you get the plugin architecture right, you'll be able to support more formats easily, as you mentioned in your proposal: This plugin would be created in the most modular way possible, so as to increase its future scope such as paste PDF

@coderrsid , once that initial version with CSV support is done, what format do you plan to look at? Perhaps you could already check this and make a list of formats that could potentially be supported? That might depend on what JS library is available, etc. so you might want to check this too.

Sure laurent, i will try to find different possible formats. But although i was thinking of pdf as my next target.

Another thing to consider is that when you copy some data from an application, the clipboard might contain multiple formats. For example if you copy from Word, you'll have HTML, plain text and Word native format in the clipboard. In Joplin, when pasting text from Word into the Rich Text editor, we a…

Oh, i'll just read more about it that how the clipboard works for different file formats and try to implement it in most unified and modular way possible

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coderrsid 23 May 2021 00:01 9

Yes, that's exactly what i'm aiming for.

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A way to paste text from Word and keep formating?

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