Do Markdown properly | Voters

Do Markdown properly

Jean J

Markdown is not sugar over a mystery backend format. All text needs to be all genuinely markdown all the way. If I paste markdown from Github or wherever it should work (to the extent the markdown flavor matches). If I select text in ClickUp and paste in Github or Slack it should show up as markdown, not flat text with formatting stripped.

May 21, 2019

Oskari Gronroos

Very surprised that pasting Markdown in or out of ClickUp doesn't work - probably the old tool in our stack that doesn't do this properly. Please prioritise. Thank you.

Lex

With AI automation becoming more and more ubiquitous, this feature is becoming more and more important to ClickUp customers. Please prioritize this work.

Mohankumar M

OMG.. I am a free user.. I can't think how paid users are feeling now..

Ron Stinson II

I'm shocked this isn't a feature from the get-go, especially after so many years the request has been on this board.
I need add a 200+ row markdown table to an existing Clickup wiki page. As a workaround, I pasted the 200+ rows into an existing table and the text pasted into a single cell.
Example format:
| Title
 | | | | Title
 | | |
| ---| ---| ---| ---| ---| ---| --- |
| Header
 | Header
 | Header
 | | Header
 | Header
 | Header
 |
| | | | | | Y | Field | String | 16 |

Karan

This would help our workflow and would make a real difference

This is essential for our team and we have to migrate if not implemented

Vera Lake

When using ClickUp brain and other AI tools when inserting or copy and pasting Markdown formatted text into tasks or docs I expect it to paste as Markdown or at least have an option when I right click to paste as Markdown.

Kerry C

I'm importing several test cases from TestRail into ClickUp via API and came across this issue. I've written a python script to fetch the test suites and cases from TestRail and respect the current markdown in the TR test cases, but when I look at the tasks created in ClickUp after they're created via the API, they render as plain text with the proper markdown in place and there is no workaround for this. Real bummer. Not sure why you'd want users to have to use a slash command so task descriptions in click up recognize markdown... It would be great if ClickUp fixes this.

Matt Jefferson

Trying to move some documentation into Clickup and we use markdown everywhere. Clickup needs to support proper markdown that is compatible with all the other tools we use (Github, etc.), this import or using AI to try to reformat is a big headache.

Dallen Baldwin

After trying out GitHub Projects (ClickUp still better for our needs for now), my entire team commented on how much better it is to write and edit tasks in GitHub compared to ClickUp. We really appreciate the Write/Preview tabs as it allows us to write markdown without having to spend extra time waiting for a slash command to come up in our editor and fight with spacing and cursor behavior with inline code. Better yet... we can see _exactly_ what's going to be rendered when we click save using the Preview. If we are clamoring for writing markdown properly... I'd argue this could be a solution. Let power users enable a raw markdown + preview mode for text areas

Eric Polin

I'm glad I purchased the AI options, as I constantly write prompts like, "Rewrite this markdown text in a format clickup understands." Unfortunately, like other solutions, tables are not formatted properly using this method.

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