Export & import
A good draft should not lose its shape on the way to the publish button. Substack's editor accepts formatted HTML, but a lot of sources hand it plain text: headings flatten, lists collapse into one paragraph, quotes stop being quotes. Quorly's Copy to clipboard puts formatted text on the clipboard so the paste arrives looking like what you wrote.
Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+V if you want plain text instead.Nothing is sent anywhere in that sequence: the clipboard belongs to your machine.
| Element | After the paste |
|---|---|
| Headings | Kept as Substack headings |
| Bold, italic, strikethrough | Kept |
| Bulleted and numbered lists | Kept, including nesting |
| Block quotes | Kept as quotes |
| Inline code and code blocks | Kept as monospace text |
| Links | Kept as links |
| Tables | Usually flattened by the destination editor — check them after pasting |
| Images | Not copied; add them in Substack |
The table is the honest version. Clipboard HTML varies by browser and by destination, so anything structural is worth a glance after the paste — tables most of all.
The same clipboard works for Ghost's editor and Medium's: both accept pasted HTML. For a target that only takes plain text, Quorly's Markdown export is the better route — headings and lists survive as syntax that the other end can convert.
Three reasons that matter once a draft is longer than a few hundred words: it works offline, it saves as you type without a network round-trip, and focus mode clears everything except the sentence. The formatting is preserved at the end, which is the part most drafting tools lose.
If you write for more than one place — a newsletter today, a blog next month — the newsletter workflow goes through the same loop.
If you write for more than one place, the same draft can leave as Markdown for a static site, PDF for an editor, or another copy to the clipboard for a second newsletter.
Questions
Yes. Copy to clipboard puts HTML on the clipboard as well as plain text. Substack's editor accepts the HTML, so headings, lists, quotes, code and links arrive formatted. Paste into the Substack editor with the normal keyboard shortcut.
Clipboard HTML cannot carry image bytes reliably, so Quorly copies the text and its formatting only. Add images in the Substack editor after the paste. The .quorly export keeps images if you need a copy with them.
Yes, where their editors accept pasted HTML. Ghost and Medium both do; plain-text targets receive the Markdown-style text instead.
No. There is no Substack integration and no API key. Copy to clipboard is a clipboard operation — you paste and publish yourself.
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