One Tip a Week: Paste Markdown and Copy to Markdown in Google Docs

This week’s tip of the week is for Google Docs. Google Docs is a great way to collaborate on edits and reviews for content, but as developers, we typically live in a markdown world.

Guess what? Google Docs supports Markdown, but you need to enabled it. Go to Tools → Preferences and check Enable Markdown.

With that setting enabled, you’ll now have access to a Paste from Markdown option as well as a Copy as Markdown option. 🤯 Note that the copy is only enabled if you have text selected in the document.

Paste from Markdown is cool because most of the time I initially write in Markdown, but the real wow one is Copy as Markdown. Get all that collaborative goodness in Google Docs and then copy the final changes to Markdown for that blog post, Readme or other markdown file you need to fill.

That’s it! Short and sweet. Until the next one!