LinkedIn text formatter

Type or paste your post above, select the words and press B (or Ctrl+B, ⌘B on a Mac). Copy the post and paste it into LinkedIn. The bold stays, because it is part of the letters.

Posts are plain text, so there is nothing to make bold. The formatter swaps each letter for a look-alike Unicode character drawn in bold, italic or monospace, and adds a line under or through each character for underline and strikethrough. That is why it pastes anywhere text goes.

On X, yes: each styled letter counts as 2. Underline and strikethrough add a mark after every character, which most networks count too. The counts next to your post show what the styling costs on each network.

A hashtag in styled letters is a different tag, and a styled link or @mention stops working. So the formatter writes hashtags, mentions, links and email addresses in plain letters. If you paste a post with styled hashtags, it offers to fix them.

Not very. Screen readers read styled letters one by one, sometimes by their full names, and search may not match them. Style a few words, like a hook or a heading, and keep the rest plain. The formatter tells you when a post has a lot of styled words.

Yes. Paste it above, select it (or nothing, for the whole post) and press Clear formatting. Bold, italic, script and other styled letters turn back into plain ones.

Bold, italic and monospace letters show on current iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac devices. Very old devices may show empty boxes instead.

No. The formatter runs in your browser and nothing you type leaves it. Your draft is kept in this browser only, so it is still there when you come back.

Create a Foliwo account to schedule it. Paste the formatted post into the composer and it publishes it as it is, on every network you pick.