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Need your note in another app? Tap Copy on the note toolbar and choose a format. On iPhone with iOS 26, Copy sits in the bar under the note, between Tags and Share. On Mac or iPad with a hardware keyboard, use ⌘C for contextual copying. On the smallest iPhone screens, a voice note’s bar can be too full for Copy. The same formats are then in the Send menu, under Copy. To send a note to another app or the web, see Sending Notes.

Copy Formats

  • Copy Rich Text. Available to everyone in Cleft v1.15.0 or later. Keeps headings, lists, links, and emphasis when you paste into rich-text apps such as Apple Notes, Mail, Pages, or Word, with a readable plain-text fallback for other apps.
  • Copy Plain Text. Clean text without formatting. Works everywhere.
  • Copy Markdown. Keeps your headers, lists, and emphasis intact. Great for Notion, GitHub, or any markdown-friendly app.
  • Copy Transcript. The raw transcript only, no summary or formatting.
Copy Rich Text, Copy Plain Text, and Copy Markdown all copy the whole note, whichever tab you have open: the title, then the summary, then the transcript under its own Transcript heading. Use Copy Transcript when you want the transcript alone. Every other way out of Cleft carries the same note in the same order. See Exporting Notes.

Copy with Command-C

On Mac or iPad with a hardware keyboard, ⌘C copies what you are working with:
  • While typing or searching, it copies your selected text.
  • Anywhere else in Cleft, it copies the current note using your automatic Copy Format. If automatic copying is off, it uses Markdown.
Each Mac window or iPad scene copies its own current note. Link-based formats reuse an existing shared link, and Cleft follows your signature setting. On iPhone, ⌘C keeps the standard selected-text behavior.

Drag a Note into Another App

On iPad and Mac, drag a finished note’s title into another app to take the note’s text with you. On iPhone Duo, drag the Copy button under the note into an app beside Cleft in Split View.

Auto-Copy

Choosing an automatic copy format requires Cleft Plus. Manual Copy Rich Text remains available to everyone.
With Cleft Plus, turn on auto-copy and every completed note lands on your clipboard automatically. Switch to another app and paste. Choose plain text, Markdown, or, in Cleft v1.15.0 or later, Rich Text in Settings → Writing Style.
Last modified on November 10, 2026