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This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff. Copy selections or whole notes as email-ready rich text. Tables, callouts, code and Mermaid diagrams survive pasting into Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail; chat apps get clean plain text.

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Copy for Email

Copy a selection or a whole note as email-ready rich text. Paste it into Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Word or a WeChat official-account editor and the formatting survives — headings, tables, callouts, highlighted code, task lists, and even Mermaid diagrams and math (converted to images).

Plain markdown copied out of Obsidian pastes as raw syntax (**bold**, # heading, | tables |). Existing "copy as HTML" approaches rely on classes and <style> blocks, which mail clients strip on paste. This plugin instead:

  • Inlines every style on every element — the only formatting mail clients reliably keep.
  • Rasterizes what mail can't render: Mermaid diagrams, charts, MathJax formulas and SVGs become embedded PNG images.
  • Embeds vault images as data URIs so they paste along with the text.
  • Uses a fixed light palette so text stays readable in a white email body even if you run a dark Obsidian theme.
  • Writes a clean plain-text flavor too: chat apps (WeChat, Slack, iMessage) that ignore rich text get readable text with no markdown syntax — bullets, a | b table rows and ☑/☐ task glyphs instead of *, |, [x].

Usage

  • Copy selection — command palette, or right-click a selection → Copy for email (editing view). Works in reading view too: select rendered text, then run the command.
  • Copy note — copies the active note (frontmatter excluded; optionally prepends the title).

Then paste into your mail compose window.

[!note] A plain Cmd/Ctrl+C is still Obsidian's native copy (markdown text, or theme-styled HTML from reading view, which mail clients render poorly). Use the plugin command or menu item to get the email-ready version.

What maps to what

In Obsidian In the email
Headings, bold/italic, highlight Styled text (GitHub-light palette)
Tables (with column alignment) Bordered tables
Callouts Tinted boxes with colored left border
Code blocks Boxed monospace with syntax colors
Task lists ☑ / ☐
Mermaid / charts / math / SVG PNG images
Vault image embeds Embedded images (data URIs)
Internal links & tags Plain text
External links Real links

Notes & limitations

  • Pasted data-URI images work in Gmail, Apple Mail, Outlook for Mac and new Outlook. Classic Outlook for Windows may not display them while composing; recipients are unaffected when sending from the supported clients.
  • Diagrams are rasterized against your current Obsidian background, so they always stay readable; for light-styled diagrams in email, use a light theme.
  • On mobile, diagrams/math degrade to a [diagram] placeholder (iOS cannot reliably rasterize off-screen renders); text, tables and images copy fine.

Install

Manual: download main.js, manifest.json, styles.css from the latest release into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/copy-for-email/, then enable it in Settings → Community plugins.

License

MIT

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