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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!

Nikkura's avatar
Nikkura
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Hi everybody,

I've pasted a list (column, one above another) of urls into a Paper file (my way of storing large about of bookmarks - with my comments, in order to quickly look through them) - but some of the links automatically have converted into strange "Preview" images - half of which dont even have a picture on it, but they hide the initial link and make the whole file like 5 times longer, making it very hard to scroll through. I've managed to remove the images but "cutting" the whole thing, then pasting in - and as it converts to image pressing "Cmd+Z" - one by one. But it takes forever. Is there a way to prevent those preview-images from appearing from links?

So it should look like this

  • WebsiteName1
  • website.url
  • WebsiteName2
  • website.url2

But now it looks like this:

  • WebsiteName1
  • HUGE IMAGE WITH BAD PREVIEW
  • WebsiteName2
  • HUGE IMAGE WITH BAD PREVIEW

Thank you!

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    6 years ago

    Hey there Nikkura - I just moved your post under this thread as they seem to be related in order to ping you with some suggestions. 

    Take a look above for some additional information and please let me know if you have any more questions. 

    • Nikkura's avatar
      Nikkura
      Helpful | Level 5
      6 years ago

      Thank you @Walter, I should have searched better

      • monka's avatar
        monka
        Helpful | Level 5
        6 years ago

        why not make like in slack 

        1. paste a link 

        1a. preview is made , link still paste

        1b. Preview is not made, link still paste

        2a. You can delete preview, link still paste

        2b. You can remove link, preview still paste

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