Erin Mikail StaplesAnyone have a good way of converting markdown to google docs efficiently?
I use obsidian to draft things, and when I paste drafts into google docs for team review, GDocs doesn’t automatically detect the markdown….
Joshua J. Drake@erinmikail maybe try import instead of copy paste? I can't be sure since I don't use Google docs much. Another idea is to render to html and then copy paste that
Max 🏳️⚧️ 🍉 🪬 🔯 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻@erinmikail Does Obsidian have a preview mode where the Markdown is rendered to rich text? Could try copying from there and pasting, instead of copying the raw Markdown source text
D. Moonfire@erinmikail I don't know if if you can it, but sometimes copying the preview and then pasting that into Google Docs can work around the formatting issues.
Steve Atkins@erinmikail
Google docs alleged markdown support doesn’t seem to exist (just some basic macro support as you type). Allegedly you can do the conversion via Google drive, but even that’s not great.
Instead I’ve been using pandoc to convert markdown to docx, then loading that into Google docs. Simple to do, and the end result is OK.
mathew@erinmikail It's not efficient from a workflow point of view, but I've found that Markdown → pandoc → docx → Google Docs gives excellent results.