Pasting Chat GPT Tables

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Is there a reason Chat GPT does not paste tables to Bear from its Copy button at the bottom? Is this a feature request?

If I prompt for a Markdown answer, it will paste without any issues. I can use the Copy button and paste into Craft and it makes the table. I’m wondering if the adjustment can be made in Bear to accept the Chat GPT tables from Copy.

Screen Recording
Bear - Copy Paste Chat GPT Tables

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This works fine for me.

Here is a random table I had ChatGPT make. I clicked the copy button (the one you showed) and then used CMD+V to paste it into Bear on my Mac.

Is that what you are doing?

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Are you trying this on the iPhone and it’s failing?

I assume you are.

If yes, you need to use “Paste from HTML” in the expanded menu.

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Did you see the screen recording URL in my initial post? I was showing the copy method for Bear and Craft.

When Chat GPT gives answers, it will show a table like this.

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I can have it create a markdown version, and it pastes without issues, but I was wondering why the default Chat GPT answer didn’t show up as a table in Bear. You’ll see in the screen recording.

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Ah, I see! Missed the screen recording.

I bet it’s because the table is intermingled with a bunch of text, but I’ll leave it to the devs to say.

P.S. It would probably be helpful to provide the text when was copied from ChatGPT as an attachment here, so the devs can try a repro.

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Attachments

  • Chat GPT prompt to recreate it
  • Text editor screenshot from using the Chat GPT response Copy button feature
  • TXT file from the Chat GPT Copy button feature

Chat GPT Prompt

Write a Markdown example with sample text and names and a table.

Files

Chat GPT Markdown Sample.txt (1.1 KB)

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Same.

I’ve tried manipulating the clipboard between copying via the copy button in ChatGPT and pasting into Bear to overcome this problem, but I can’t get it to work so I would love to see Bear update its markdown parser to fix it. I’ll summarize my experience:

  1. On Mac, copy a ChatGPT reply in a conversation that contains a table using the copy button at the bottom of the reply.
  2. Paste into Bear and everything gets parsed/rendered correctly, except the table.
  3. Go back to the same conversation in ChatGPT and select/highlight a table in the same reply, then copy via the context menu or Edit>Copy or ⌘C, then paste into Bear and the table gets parsed/rendered correctly.

Manually copy/pasting like this does work as an inconvenient workaround, but you cant always select or highlight an entire reply in ChatGPT because you may run into breaks that prevent that, so if you have a reply with multiple tables it becomes tedious and impractical to manually select each table or each selectable section of a reply.

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