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How it works

Getting started with Chat2Card

From installation to your first exported card in about a minute. This page also covers the parts people usually discover late.

Installing the extension

  1. 1Open the Chrome Web Store listing and click “Add to Chrome”, then confirm the permission dialog.
  2. 2Pin Chat2Card to your toolbar by clicking the puzzle-piece icon and then the pin next to Chat2Card. This makes the one-click workflow actually one click.
  3. 3Optionally set a custom keyboard shortcut at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. The default is Alt + Shift + C.
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Making your first card

  1. 1Copy some Markdown — a README, a set of notes, or a reply from an AI assistant.
  2. 2Press Alt + Shift + C, or click the Chat2Card icon in the toolbar.
  3. 3Click “Read clipboard”. Your content appears in the preview, parsed and styled.
  4. 4Choose a template from the Template group in the sidebar.
  5. 5Click “Copy image” to put the PNG on your clipboard, or “Download PNG” to save it.

How it works

Three steps, about ten seconds

No sign-up, no onboarding flow, no template marketplace to browse first.

  1. 01

    Copy your content

    Select a Markdown document, a section of a webpage, or an answer from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other assistant, and copy it. Alternatively, select the text and use the right-click menu.

  2. 02

    Open Chat2Card

    Click the toolbar icon or press Alt + Shift + C. Hit Read clipboard and your content appears in the live preview, already parsed as Markdown.

  3. 03

    Pick a style and export

    Choose a template and aspect ratio, tweak the width or font size if you like, then copy the image to your clipboard or download it as PNG or PDF.

Tip: Alt + Shift + C opens Chat2Card from anywhere in the browser.

Things worth knowing

Splitting long content

Add a line with only `---` where you want a page break and turn on “Split on ---”. The preview becomes a multi-card set and “Export all” saves every card in one action, numbered in order.

Getting the aspect ratio right

Set the ratio before you fine-tune the font size, since changing the ratio reflows the content. Auto-fit picks the closest standard ratio to your actual content height, which usually avoids large blank areas.

Right-click without copying

Select text on any webpage, right-click, and choose “Generate card with Chat2Card”. The panel opens with the selection already loaded — no clipboard step at all.

When the clipboard is blocked

Browsers refuse clipboard reads if the panel does not have focus. Click once inside the panel and retry. As a fallback, open the editor and paste manually — that path never fails.

Exporting for print

Use 3× export scale for anything that will be printed or shown on a large display. For ordinary social posts 2× is plenty and produces much smaller files.

Pasting into WeChat

Use “Copy image” rather than downloading. The image goes onto your system clipboard and pastes directly into WeChat, WeChat Work, Slack, Notion or a document, skipping the file dance entirely.

Stop screenshotting. Start sharing.

Install Chat2Card and the next good answer you read is one keystroke away from being a card worth posting.

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