Card #2578 · Notion Integration Gallery
Loss of markdown formatting when copying plain text from Notion
Copying text from Notion, specifically from notion.site domains, no longer preserves markdown URLs in plain text editors. Users report that Notion changed this behavior recently, stripping markdown formatting from the clipboard's plain text layer.
Pain score
0.54/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.82distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency0.92freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.41upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.25willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 2 verified quotes
So, to me it looks like Notion changed behavior for copying plain text as markdown.
They stripped the markdown formatting from plain text copies a while back, probably within the last couple months based on your timeline.
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