Smart Pasting: Copy And Paste Anywhere Without Formatting Headaches

Copy From Alter, Paste Anywhere – No More Formatting Nightmares

Author

Samuel ROY
March 14, 2025

Hey everyone,

🔥 JUST RELEASED: Smart Pasting is here to save you from the daily frustration of broken formatting when copying and pasting content.

It's a game changer for anyone who uses Alter and needs to share content across different apps.

What This Means For Your Productivity:

  • Automatic Format Detection - Alter now understands where you're pasting and adapts the format instantly

  • Zero Configuration Required - No settings to tweak, no keyboard shortcuts to learn

  • Time Saver - What used to take minutes of reformatting now happens instantly

The Problem We Solved

We've all been there. You copy a perfectly formatted reply from Alter, paste it into an email, and... markdown chaos. Headers turn into hashtags, formatting disappears, and you waste precious minutes fixing it all.

Last week alone, I spent 25 minutes reformatting meeting reports across 5 different emails. That's when we decided: "We need to fix this."

See It In Action:

When you copy content from Alter and paste it:

  • Markdown app (Obsidian, Bear, Notion etc...) → Clean markdown

  • Rich Text (Apple Mail, Microsoft Word, Pages, Apple Notes) → Perfect formatting

  • Google (Gmail, Docs, etc...) —> Just as good, no markdown symbols

We've tested this across dozens of apps, and it just works. Copy, paste, done.

This is one of those features that seems small but saves you time every single day – the kind you don't notice until it's gone.

Update Alter today to try Smart Pasting!

Something goes wrong with one of your app, make your request here ! → https://discord.gg/gvCMmfBRWZ

Best,
Sam

Other changes

Voice & Dictation

  1. Better support for spelled-out punctuations

  2. Support for quick commands like “Create a todo list in markdown with the 3 following entries…”

  3. Fix a bug where the model would hallucinate its result when using a quick command

Conversation & Visual Experience

  1. New shortcuts to change the font-size of the conversation window (cmd+plus, cmd+minus)

  2. Replaced pins with stars to favorite a conversation

  3. Conversations can be renamed both in the chat window and in the notch

  4. Saving a reply will save in a Markdown file

System

  1. Workspaces: performance improvements + fix crash with large code repositories (4K+ files)

  2. Onboarding check for connection issues

  3. Fix crashes around fetching browser tabs context

  4. Fix race condition in context management

Videos on Alter 2