Hi all,
I have a simple question: How can I disable all the automatic formatting in Agenda?
I just want plain text and do the formatting manually if I need to.
Auto list is especially annoying – often it simply doesn’t work for the whole list but only the first one when I copy and paste content to agenda.
Best,
Jake
There’s no such option yet but we’ll consider adding it. If you have examples of pasted content that doesn’t work as expected it would be great to share as we can see if we can improve that experience. If you’re not comfortable sharing it here you can also email it to alex@agenda.com. Thanks!
Following up on this, although my request is slightly different.
While I generally love the auto-formatting that Agenda does for me, there are some situations where I don’t want it. Esp. when pasting something.
Other Mac apps seem to have an option that right after the auto-format you can hit cmd-Z to undo and it remains unformatted. In Agenda that doesn’t work. Would you consider enabling that?
Overall, I think the auto format is useful, keeps things clean, but there are some moments when you don’t want it. For instance > indents the line. But what if I want to have a start of a line that starts with >? No way to do that at the moment. Or lists. Let’s say I have a * Markup * heading that I want to preserve.
Agenda turns it into a bulleted list item 
So I think globally having more options to determine that behavior would be great, as well as situationally being able to control it.
Have you tried Paste As > Plain Text? That should remove the formatting.
It’s irrelevant if I paste formatted or plain text or just type it myself.
Maybe auto-formatting is the wrong term, I mean things like creating lists, or indenting a line or things like that. See the examples that I mention.
Ah, so it is parsing the markdown, you mean.
One way to avoid that is to type a backslash () and then paste.
Alternatively, you can paste into an area with “preformatted” style.
Oh great, yes, backslash works when typing.
When pasting text, pasting as preformatted works, but it also (obviously) assigned the Preformatted style definition and if I change it back to Body Text it then it auto-formats everything. So you might still look into an option to be able to control this behavior in the future. But for now working with backslashes will work for me.
Hmm, I thought the backslash should also work with pasting. Ie type backslash, then paste immediately. I need to check that…
It doesn’t if there are line breaks. Try typing backslash and then pasting the following:
The first one is kept, but the second and third line are converted to bullets.
I see. Thanks for letting me know.
Alternatively, I would expect that <shift><opt><cmd>V did the same 
I’m also having the same problem. I’m trying to paste someting that has *CANCELLED (with an astrix on each end of the word) at the beginning of the text. No matter what I do, it continues to autoformat it to Italics, removing the asterix.
This is very frustrating, because I can’t copy & paste this exact text.
Did anyone figure out how to disable auto formatting or where we can submit feedback to have that as a feature? Because this is very frustrating.
Thanks!
There are a couple of things you can do. The first is type a backslash (\) and then paste. That will remove any special meaning in the string, and you keep the asterisks.
The other is to start a preformatted paragraph and paste into that, but it gives you a different appearance.
But in general the backslash then paste option is the best.
Kind regards,
Drew