{"id":52805,"date":"2026-07-31T14:31:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52805"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:31:47","slug":"paste-and-match-style-is-not-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/31\/paste-and-match-style-is-not-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Paste and Match Style Is Not the Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unsung.aresluna.org\/paste-and-match-style-is-not-the-answer\/\">Marcin Wichary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/unsung.aresluna.org\/paste-and-match-style-is-not-the-answer\/\">\n<p>The problem is that PAMS is drunk with power and flattens <em>everything<\/em> on its way[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>That includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>emphasis by italics or bolding<\/li>\n<li>links<\/li>\n<li>bulleted and numbered lists <\/li>\n<li>strike-through text<\/li>\n<li>headlines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of these are &ldquo;style.&rdquo; This is actual information that should not be removed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Sometimes, <strong>Paste and Match Style<\/strong> is what you want, but I like when apps also provide other options, as he discusses. For example, the Omni apps now offer <strong>Paste and Merge Styles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/15\/omnifocus-4-8-10\/\">OmniFocus 4.8.10<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/13\/omnioutliner-6-1\/\">OmniOutliner 6.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/04\/pure-paste-1-1\/\">Pure Paste 1.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/30\/paste-without-style\/\">Paste Without Style<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcin Wichary: The problem is that PAMS is drunk with power and flattens everything on its way[&#8230;] That includes: emphasis by italics or bolding links bulleted and numbered lists strike-through text headlines None of these are &ldquo;style.&rdquo; This is actual information that should not be removed. Sometimes, Paste and Match Style is what you want, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-07-31T18:31:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"0ca29978-02e0-4af5-9513-631a702dc406","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-07-31T18:31:51Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ADKKZeALgSvWVE2MacC3EBg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1345,30,2742,445,700,2935,526,580,1670,820],"class_list":["post-52805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-figma","tag-mac","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-microsoftword","tag-notes","tag-notion","tag-omnifocus","tag-omnioutliner","tag-pasteboard","tag-rich-text-format-rtf"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52806,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52805\/revisions\/52806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}