Copy and paste

Paste many blocks and you get many blocks, nested as they were, with their styles.

Copy blocks out of Fennick and they keep their shape in other apps too.

Paste into Fennick

Many blocks become many blocks.
Indenting, with tabs or spaces, becomes nesting.
Markdown turns into kinds and styles:
- # headings, - bullets, 1. numbers, - [ ] to-dos, > quotes, ``` code, --- dividers;
- **bold**, *italic*, `code`, ~~strike~~, ==highlight== (a highlight of its own, as ⌘⇧H makes one; a==b stays as words), [words](https://…) links.
Rich text from a web page, a document or an email keeps its headings, nested lists, bold, italic and links. A highlight comes in yellow, or in its color when it is one of Fennick's.
Copies from Notion, Obsidian and Tana are read from their markdown.
Plain text with no sign of markdown comes in exactly as it is. File paths and code keep every letter.
Code copied from a code editor becomes one code block.
One ⌘Z takes the whole paste away.
A paste can hold up to 2,000 blocks. It is saved all at once, however many blocks it has. The Op Log still lists each block it added.

Where the blocks go

At the start of a block with words, the pasted blocks go above it.
In the middle of a block, the words after the caret move to the end of the last pasted block.
On an empty block, the first pasted block sets its kind (a heading stays a heading).
In a code block, the text goes in as it is.
A web address pasted over selected words links them.

Paste the words only

Press ⌘⇧V (Ctrl+Shift+V on Windows). The words come in plain, with no styles, into the block you are in.

Copy out of Fennick

Select whole blocks (see Selecting blocks) and press ⌘C. Fennick puts three forms on the clipboard, and each app takes the one it reads best:

Markdown, for Obsidian, Notion, Tana and plain-text apps. Nested blocks are indented.
Rich text, for documents and email: headings, nested lists, bold, italic and links.
Fennick's own form, for pasting back into Fennick.

Words copied from inside one block keep their styles too.

A highlight copies as ==words== in markdown, which has no colors, and in its own color in rich text and in Fennick's own form.

A formula in a block copies to another app as its answer, as it shows, and in Fennick's own form as the formula.

Pasting back into Fennick

In the same notebook, a block comes back as itself, an entity or a plain block alike. It is shown again, not copied: no page owns a block, and it is the same block in each place it shows. An empty block comes back as a new one.
A block's link (Copy link in its menu) pasted on an empty block shows that same block there too. Pasted among words, it links to it. Typing @ and a few of a block's words offers it as well, after pages and entities.
Paste as copy: ⌥⌘V (Ctrl+Alt+V on Windows), or Paste as copy in the block's menu, pastes new blocks, with their words, styles and fields. ⌘D makes a copy of a block right after it.
Cut and paste moves. ⌘X then ⌘V moves the same blocks, with the blocks inside them, their history and their links. A cut entity is only removed from the page, never sent to the Trash.
From another notebook, everything comes as a copy of the words.

Pictures and files paste in too. A picture or a file you paste becomes a block of its own where you paste it, with its preview. A picture is tagged #image and a file #file. See Pictures, files and tables.