Import from Google Docs/Rich Text formats
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Import from Google Docs/Rich Text formats
Content Addition · Api · Created by Typh
declined
google-docs importing
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Keeping this brief. World Anvil provides a service that is very useful, but it's hamstrung by it's limited text editor. World Anvil uses BBCode, a text format introduced in 1998, on a website that has a lot of features, doodads, and other things that wouldn't work on a machine that old. There are other text editors, other ways of implementing and aggravating data in this modern age. Most of these that are easy to use also use aformat handled innately by html, leading to easy format copy and pasting. This also exists in file formats like .rtf. One would think that World Anvil, a website that relies entirely on text and formatting, would have such in a easy to implement and/or import format. That is not the case, at the moment.How does this feature request address the current situation?
People can still use World Anvil, and can create articles and pages that are easy to change over from one format to another. At the moment, most have to struggle with automatic converters or, worse, reformatting everything by hand, because World Anvil's innate text editor has a few issues of it's own that is beyond the scope of this request.What are other uses for this feature request?
It would offset the need to use World Anvil on the website exclusively, saving server bandwidth, phone ram for those of us that edit articles on their smaller devices, and people from stress headaches.Follow up
Please just straight up add a way to import Rich Text. Fixing the text editor would be nice, but a proprietary text editor will always pale in comparison to the tools a community can cook up.
The Team's Response
Thank you for this suggestion! To clarify, we use BBCODE because of its flexibility and ease, not because the technology is outdated (it isn't). We want people to have resources to do what they want with ease. All the same, We know the editor has issues, we'll fix this rather than creating an importer. If you have technical knowledge, you can create an app for that using our API! We look forward to your message.
Current score
47/300 Votes · +10109 points
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by snakekeeper7
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by A Fluffy Dimensional Horror
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by GrayWarden
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by TheSpudDespot
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by Dawnfire82
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by MKHETH II
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by Shirokami17
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by Beowulf68
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by Jordan89
on 2023-04-09 20:40 -
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by Aramec
on 2023-04-09 04:16I absolutely agree. I am particularly surprised that WorldAnvil seems to use a bizarre carriage return format that doesn't seem to match anything else. It drives me insane.
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by larkemonster
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by BCGR_Wurth
on 2023-04-08 02:36 -
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by gallahermike
on 2023-04-07 15:02 -
+300
by Garath42
on 2023-04-07 08:42 -
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by Lizzard15
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by yatenari
on 2023-04-05 19:22 -
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by Damien Cross
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by SanctifiedSavage
on 2023-04-05 02:22 -
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by donpedicinijr
on 2023-04-04 02:49 -
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by A Frightened Goblin
on 2023-04-03 12:16 -
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by Kat Chiron
on 2023-04-03 11:49 -
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by zpires
on 2023-04-02 18:09 -
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by CedricJ
on 2023-04-02 14:03 -
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by A Fierce Kobold
on 2023-04-02 05:13 -
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by Cursedvapors
on 2023-04-02 02:26 -
+300
by A Revolutionary Orc
on 2023-04-01 10:53 -
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by morganarcher
on 2023-03-31 22:56I would LOVE this, for articles and for Manuscripts. I have so many things I want to import in, but no way to do it beyond painstaking copy/paste.
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+100
by Nebby18
on 2023-03-31 06:56 -
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by hhhhhaaaa
on 2023-03-31 00:21 -
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by Sehanbrel
on 2023-03-29 15:31 -
+100
by Mp3
on 2023-03-29 15:05I like the idea. Most of my writing actually gets done on google docs then i import it on to here.
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by KK Gore
on 2023-03-29 03:13 -
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by Gam1ngSk1ttle
on 2023-03-28 22:54 -
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by Logan Mountain
on 2023-03-28 15:30 -
+300
by Dreamer_076
on 2023-03-28 06:47 -
+1
by PrismCoalition
on 2023-03-27 22:11 -
+1
by Lordaeron
on 2023-03-27 20:45 -
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by Bhall415
on 2023-03-26 22:36 -
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by Cheeky_witch
on 2023-03-26 05:53 -
+100
by A Beloved Dragon
on 2023-03-26 01:24 -
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by Inglo1
on 2023-03-25 18:06 -
+1
by A Glamorous Unicorn
on 2023-03-25 15:04 -
+300
by Typh
on 2023-03-25 14:50
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