# Exporting & sharing

Copy as rich text, Markdown, or HTML

Last updated June 2026

Select text in Unmarked and choose Edit ▸ Copy as Rich Text (⌥⌘C) to paste clean formatted text into Mail, Slack, Google Docs, or Notion, with bold, headings, and lists intact and no Markdown symbols. The Edit menu also has Copy as Markdown for the raw source and Copy as HTML for a snippet.

You don't always want the whole file. You want one section in an email or a Slack message, and you want it to look right instead of arriving full of asterisks and pound signs. Three commands cover that.

Copy as Rich Text

The one you'll reach for most. It copies your selection as formatted text, so it pastes into any rich-text field looking the way it does in Unmarked.

  1. Select the text you want. Read mode or Write mode both work.
  2. Choose Edit ▸ Copy as Rich Text, or press ⌥⌘C.
  3. Paste into Mail, Slack, Google Docs, Notion, or anywhere that accepts formatted text.

Headings stay headings, bold stays bold, lists stay lists. The ** and # characters don't come along. The paste picks up the destination's own fonts and styling, so it reads like you typed it there.

Copy as Markdown

Choose Edit ▸ Copy as Markdown to copy the raw source, symbols and all. Use it when the place you're pasting into speaks Markdown: a GitHub comment, a pull request, another Markdown editor, a chat tool that renders it. You get exactly what's in the file, untouched.

Copy as HTML

Choose Edit ▸ Copy as HTML to copy your selection as an HTML snippet. This is for web editors and CMS fields that take HTML directly. Paste it into the HTML view of your page and the markup is ready.

Rich-text paste depends on where it lands. A field that only accepts plain text (a terminal, a code box, some search bars) strips the formatting and drops in plain characters. That's the destination's rule, not Unmarked's. If formatting disappears on paste, the field you pasted into doesn't support it.

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