LinkedIn Strips Formatting — So I Built a Tool to Preserve It

Have you ever pasted a post into LinkedIn and thought…

“Wait… where did all my formatting go?”

Your bold disappeared.
Your italics vanished.
Your bullets turned into plain text.

I hit this problem every single time I copied content from GPT, Notion, or Google Docs.

So I dug into why this happens.

Here’s the truth 👇
LinkedIn does not support real text formatting like bold, italic, underline, or strikethrough.

But you’ve probably noticed something interesting…

Some posts do keep their formatting.
They look cleaner.
Easier to read.
They stand out in the feed.

That’s because they use Unicode characters, not actual formatting.

So I built a small tool to fix this 👇

🚀 LinkedIn AI Formatter
What it does (and what it does not do):

✅ You paste content copied from GPT / Notion / Docs
✅ The tool detects formatting already present
✅ Converts only that formatting into Unicode equivalents
✅ You copy the output
✅ Paste into LinkedIn
✅ Formatting stays 🎉

❌ It does NOT add new formatting
❌ It does NOT rewrite your content
❌ It does NOT change structure or meaning

Just preservation. Nothing more.

Supported formatting:

𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗱
𝘐𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤
𝚄̲𝚗̲𝚍̲𝚎̲𝚛̲𝚕̲𝚒̲𝚗̲𝚎̲
𝚂̶𝚝̶𝚛̶𝚒̶𝚔̶𝚎̶
• Bullet points

Numbered lists

If writing on LinkedIn matters to you —
readability matters.
And formatting is a big part of that.

Try it here 👇
👉 https://linkedin-ai-formatter.vercel.app

💻 Open Source at https://github.com/coderomm/linkedin-ai-formatter-app

Would genuinely love feedback — especially from people who write regularly on LinkedIn.

Building this in public 🚀
More small improvements coming.

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