Bear isn’t perfect at parsing Markdown. The problems for me mostly show up when pasting from AI output, like ChatGPT, especially tables (see Pasting Chat GPT Tables ).
I’ve spent some time trying to workarounds. None are perfect either, and it depends on the source. With ChatGPT, it can even be different with the web and Mac interfaces.
Here are a few ways I have tried on Bear Mac with mixed success, all of which are annoying:
- Experimenting with Edit>Paste From> again while also experimenting with the source and method of content.
- Copying smaller chunks of conversations
- Round tripping through other apps that parse Markdown differently.
I have no idea how difficult it is to get parsing right, but I suspect there are a lot of edge cases. Hopefully pasting from big boys like Claude and ChatGPT gets better treatment one of these days.