Feature Request: Preserve Rich Text Formatting (Bold/Italic) from iOS Notes When Inputting into ChatGPT
Problem:
When copying text from the iOS Notes app into ChatGPT, all bold and italic formatting is stripped. While paragraph spacing generally survives, rich text emphasis (which is crucial for outlining structure, emphasis, and editorial tone) is lost entirely. This forces users—especially those formatting longform pieces—to manually reapply bold and italics inside ChatGPT responses or external editors. It’s a huge time sink and disrupts productivity.
Why It Matters:
Writers, editors, UX testers, and developers often use iOS Notes for fast drafting and markup. Losing formatting on paste breaks editorial workflows, especially for high-signal users working on structured documents (articles, op-eds, specs, feature sets, etc.). Current markdown or internal formatting tools inside ChatGPT do not compensate, because users can’t paste in preformatted emphasis. The assistant can’t “see” or preserve the formatting the user already applied.
Proposed Solution:
Implement a formatting parser that detects and preserves rich text formatting—bold, italic, underline—when pasting content into ChatGPT from sources like iOS Notes, Apple Pages, or rich text editors. This could be a universal handler for RTF/HTML paste events or a toggle that recognizes formatting tags and maps them to Markdown (e.g. bold, italic) internally.
Stretch Goal:
Allow an import/upload feature for .rtf, .docx, or .md files where ChatGPT preserves inline formatting and can work with the document structure directly—like a lightweight document editor or markdown-aware assistant.
Impact:
Saves time, preserves document integrity, and enables more advanced document editing + review workflows inside ChatGPT. This directly improves the experience for power users creating articles, reports, or code-adjacent documentation.