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monerap
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago
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How to turn off link previews on Paper?

Hello everyone, I created a doc called "links". When I copy my links to doc, I want to see only URLs, not thumbnails. Is this possible?
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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    7 years ago

    Not at the moment Bradloff - I'll be passing this on to our team though for their consideration. Thanks so much for your valuable feedback and helping us improve Paper!

    In the meantime, you can use a code block [by entering three backticks (```) to start, and then paste your URL into the block]  to paste your links into a Paper doc as text only. 

    I know it's not optimal yet I sure hope it helps to some extent. 

    Let me know if you have any more questions or feedback and happy new Year too!

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Walter
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7 years ago

Thanks for the extensive feedback on this one aaronbieber - I'll make sure to pass your additional comments to the dev team.

Should you have anything to add in the meantime, do let me know please.

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fffoooxxx
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

This feature is extremely disruptive. Every time I write/paste, these obnoxious previews hijack the document.

Our company often does R&D and we'll paste a list of links/references, and these previews make our documents completely unreadable and unusable.

There needs to be an easy way to remove the previews, or turn them off completely by default. In Paper, I don't want previews more often than I do.

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    Walter
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    7 years ago

    Thanks for your input on this fffoooxxx - I'm logging this is a feature request for an option to be able to disable/enable link previews on Paper docs.

    I'll also let the team know about your usecase as this will help better understand our users' needs and pain points - thanks for your constructive feedback. 

    If there's anything else you'd like to add, or ask, in the meantime; please let me know. 

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    Walter
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    7 years ago

    Following up on this one...

    You can also use the 'Undo' command (ctrl+Z for Windows and Command+Z for Macs) when you paste the link(s) on a Paper doc to prevent them from previewing. 

    I was just able to do it even when pasting multiple links - only I had to press the command as many times as the listed links. 

    Hope this helps!

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