One of the features I appreciate in Asana is the ability to paste formatted URL links (meaning the link’s text with the underlying URL) into Descriptions and Comments with CTRL+V. I’ve noticed that it no longer works with URLs to Google Docs and Sheets. This ability first disappeared from Descriptions when Asana upgraded the integration with Google Docs. And more recently it disappeared from Comments too. So now when I paste a formatted URL link of a Google Doc or Sheet into an Asana Description or Comment, it’s a hyperlinked URL and it can’t be edited.
I use the FormatLink Chrome extension to generate links. (It uses the following format:
<a href=“{{url.s(”"“,”"“)}}”>{{text.s(“<”,“<”)}})
Here’s a screenshot of an Asana comment with two links. The green arrow points to what I’d like it to look like when I paste a link and what it used to look like. It is now tedious to create this. I can no longer use the FormatLink Chrome extension to paste links to Google Docs or Google Sheets into Asana Descriptions or Comments. Instead, I’ve got to copy and paste the text of the Doc name, then copy and paste the URL over the text to create the formatted link.
The red arrow points to what it looks like now when I paste a formatted link to a Google Doc into an Asana Comment and this link can’t be edited.
Is there a workaround for this so that I can resume pasting formatted URL links to Google Docs and Sheets into Descriptions and Comments in Asana with a simple paste?