Hello everyone,
I created a doc called "links". When I copy my links to doc, I want to see only URLs, not thumbnails. Is this possible?
Not at the moment @Bradloff - I'll be passing this on to our team though for their consideration. Thanks so much for your valuable feedback and helping us improve Paper!
In the meantime, you can use a code block [by entering three backticks (```) to start, and then paste your URL into the block] to paste your links into a Paper doc as text only.
I know it's not optimal yet I sure hope it helps to some extent.
Let me know if you have any more questions or feedback and happy new Year too!
Hey there @monerap - thanks for using Paper!
You can achieve this by inputting a space prior to pasting your links in this case.
Let me know if you need anything else!
Is there a way to disable this feature permanently, or to click a link/preview and turn it into the other? These thumbnails appear randomly and it's a tad frustrating.
Thanks for the additional feedback on this one @Ben O. - I'll pass this on to our team as a feature request.
Please let me know if you have any more feedback or questions!
Just ran into this issue.Could you please this feature off by default or at least make it clear how to remove the preview.?
It's really annoying and not obvious how to remove the preview.
Hi everybody,
I've pasted a list (column, one above another) of urls into a Paper file (my way of storing large about of bookmarks - with my comments, in order to quickly look through them) - but some of the links automatically have converted into strange "Preview" images - half of which dont even have a picture on it, but they hide the initial link and make the whole file like 5 times longer, making it very hard to scroll through. I've managed to remove the images but "cutting" the whole thing, then pasting in - and as it converts to image pressing "Cmd+Z" - one by one. But it takes forever. Is there a way to prevent those preview-images from appearing from links?
So it should look like this
But now it looks like this:
Thank you!
Hey there @Nikkura - I just moved your post under this thread as they seem to be related in order to ping you with some suggestions.
Take a look above for some additional information and please let me know if you have any more questions.
Thank you @Walter, I should have searched better
No worries @Nikkura - how are the suggestions above working out for you?
i've replaced all "www" with " www" in the text editor and as a walk-around it works just fine for my usecase, thank you
why not make like in slack
1. paste a link
1a. preview is made , link still paste
1b. Preview is not made, link still paste
2a. You can delete preview, link still paste
2b. You can remove link, preview still paste
I want to permanently disable previews as well. I rarely find myself wanting previews in my Paper docs, so I don't want to have to take an extra step to remove one whenever I paste in a URL.
If I had an option to add a preview after pasting in a URL I might use it once in a blue moon.
Is it just me, or hard these URL previews near impossible to open when viewing on mobile?
I want to throw in with this group to say that the way Paper handles link previews is atrocious. Look, we all use Slack, we like how that works, we expect things to work the same way.
Here's my problem. I'm not always (in fact, nearly never) typing in a URL. I'm pasting it from somewhere else. Often I'm pasting a block of text that contains a URL. So it's really great when Paper decides to expand some of those into block-level URL previews that apparently I can't remove.
You expect me to delete the preview and re-type the URL? I can't find any rational way to revert the preview to the URL it was derived from.
I'd actually be reasonably happy if there was just a little "X" on the hover state to let me revert it to the URL string. You know, like how Slack does it.
Another thing that's quite annoying is that if you try to "select" the unfurled link preview, it visits the link. What? When you're editing your document, you don't want to interact with live links, you want to, um, edit the text. You know who does this really well? Google Docs. Stop opening tabs while I'm studiously trying to format my document properly, it rips me out of the experience and just kills my focus.
Please pass this along to product, and if they need more detail or feedback, screencast, live chat, whatever, please let me know, I'm happy to help out here if I can. Happy Dropbox customer for years, relatively new Paper user... I think there is a ton of potential, but these little UX snags just kill the whole experience.
Cheers.
Thanks for the extensive feedback on this one @aaronbieber - I'll make sure to pass your additional comments to the dev team.
Should you have anything to add in the meantime, do let me know please.
This feature is extremely disruptive. Every time I write/paste, these obnoxious previews hijack the document.
Our company often does R&D and we'll paste a list of links/references, and these previews make our documents completely unreadable and unusable.
There needs to be an easy way to remove the previews, or turn them off completely by default. In Paper, I don't want previews more often than I do.
Thanks for your input on this @fffoooxxx - I'm logging this is a feature request for an option to be able to disable/enable link previews on Paper docs.
I'll also let the team know about your usecase as this will help better understand our users' needs and pain points - thanks for your constructive feedback.
If there's anything else you'd like to add, or ask, in the meantime; please let me know.
Following up on this one...
You can also use the 'Undo' command (ctrl+Z for Windows and Command+Z for Macs) when you paste the link(s) on a Paper doc to prevent them from previewing.
I was just able to do it even when pasting multiple links - only I had to press the command as many times as the listed links.
Hope this helps!
I guess they've not fixed this yet.
Since Dropbox is unable to provide a working solution, here is one.
HOW TO STOP DROPBOX PAPER FROM ADDING LINK PREVIEWS
||paper.dropbox.com/integrations/embed/unfurl
DISCLAIMERS
Is it possible to get this fixed? This is very annoying to work with, should be an option. Many other services that add link previews allow you to turn it off, eg Slack.
I'm trying to give Db paper a second change and moving my notes from apples notes app to paper but this really sucks a**
It messes up everything
I can just guess that it does so with every other document also
If this is still not have global disable option, it's a real fail.
have to look another solution.
Want a solution that doesn't force you to have to use code block when not doing code. Please just turn link preview off by default. We don't want distracting graphics and text when we just want a link. Terrible feature.
ok, not great but better than accepted solution checked below. Should turn off this spammy thing by default. Graphics are a huge distraction when you just want a url.
Yes. Please dropbox fix this. Your product is generally going to the wrong way,
like the new ui on the desktop. Nothing useful, just distractions and can't find what you want. Classic shell already did everything needed.
Yes please fix this so it's optional. I want it to show the URL link but also be able to click to take me to that link - not show a preview
I asked their support to make it optional as well -- but it seems a very low priority to them. I think they do understand that UX is bad. However, you will notice that they turned all links you pasted in as a redirection -- which means that Dropbox might track your clicks through that functionality. If you can switch it off by default, they can no longer track you.
This is a follow up to the follow "Solved" posted - https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-files-folders/How-to-turn-off-link-previews-on-Paper/td-p/320543/page/3
Every time I paste a URL into Paper, I can't actually see the URL. Instead, a giant thumbnail of the website appears. I can't for the life of me figure out how to see only the link without using a code block.
Please someone tell me that older post just hasn't been updated and there is a work around for this issue.
What's very odd to me is that Dropbox would have to go out of their way to implement this functionality. Why would they think people want a giant thumbnail every time they paste URL, as opposed to just the URL itself?
It's extremely disheartening that they were made aware of this issue over SIX months ago and there still is no fix. It seems like yet another big tech case of, 'we know what our customers want better than they know what they want' - I very much hope that's not the case.
