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monerap's avatar
monerap
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

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
    6 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!

Bradloff's avatar
Bradloff
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

Is there a way to disable this feature permanently, or to click a link/preview and turn it into the other? These thumbnails appear randomly and it's a tad frustrating. 

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    6 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!

    • Ben O.'s avatar
      Ben O.
      Helpful | Level 6
      6 years ago
      Please ask the team to make this optional. Being forced to see the previews without using the hack is enough to make me use something else.
      • Walter's avatar
        Walter
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
        6 years ago

        Thanks for the additional feedback on this one Ben O. - I'll pass this on to our team as a feature request.

        Please let me know if you have any more feedback or questions!

    • nicksoper's avatar
      nicksoper
      New member | Level 2
      5 years ago

      Hi Walter.
      In addition to the code block ``` you can also add the links inside a table. You can delete all the rows and columns and just leave one cell.

       

      I hope this extra option is of value to Paper users.

    • nalb's avatar
      nalb
      New member | Level 2
      5 years ago

      Want a solution that doesn't force you to have to use code block when not doing code. Please just turn link preview off by default. We don't want distracting graphics and text when we just want a link. Terrible feature.

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