diff --git a/app/scenes/Document/components/EditableTitle.tsx b/app/scenes/Document/components/EditableTitle.tsx
index 998f51286..4c4de2390 100644
--- a/app/scenes/Document/components/EditableTitle.tsx
+++ b/app/scenes/Document/components/EditableTitle.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 import { observer } from "mobx-react";
+import { Slice } from "prosemirror-model";
 import { Selection } from "prosemirror-state";
+import { __parseFromClipboard } from "prosemirror-view";
 import * as React from "react";
 import styled from "styled-components";
 import breakpoint from "styled-components-breakpoint";
+import isMarkdown from "@shared/editor/lib/isMarkdown";
+import normalizePastedMarkdown from "@shared/editor/lib/markdown/normalize";
 import { light } from "@shared/styles/theme";
 import {
   getCurrentDateAsString,
@@ -120,9 +124,12 @@ const EditableTitle = React.forwardRef(
     const handlePaste = React.useCallback(
       (event: React.ClipboardEvent) => {
         event.preventDefault();
+
         const text = event.clipboardData.getData("text/plain");
+        const html = event.clipboardData.getData("text/html");
         const [firstLine, ...rest] = text.split(`\n`);
         const content = rest.join(`\n`).trim();
+
         window.document.execCommand(
           "insertText",
           false,
@@ -130,11 +137,37 @@ const EditableTitle = React.forwardRef(
         );
 
         if (editor && content) {
-          const { view, parser } = editor;
+          const { view, pasteParser } = editor;
+          let slice;
+
+          if (isMarkdown(text)) {
+            const paste = pasteParser.parse(normalizePastedMarkdown(content));
+            slice = paste.slice(0);
+          } else {
+            const defaultSlice = __parseFromClipboard(
+              view,
+              text,
+              html,
+              false,
+              view.state.selection.$from
+            );
+
+            // remove first node from slice
+            slice = defaultSlice.content.firstChild
+              ? new Slice(
+                  defaultSlice.content.cut(
+                    defaultSlice.content.firstChild.nodeSize
+                  ),
+                  defaultSlice.openStart,
+                  defaultSlice.openEnd
+                )
+              : defaultSlice;
+          }
+
           view.dispatch(
             view.state.tr
               .setSelection(Selection.atStart(view.state.doc))
-              .insert(0, parser.parse(content))
+              .replaceSelection(slice)
           );
         }
       },
diff --git a/shared/editor/lib/isMarkdown.ts b/shared/editor/lib/isMarkdown.ts
index 1b660ae51..680410c88 100644
--- a/shared/editor/lib/isMarkdown.ts
+++ b/shared/editor/lib/isMarkdown.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ export default function isMarkdown(text: string): boolean {
   }
 
   // list-ish
-  const listItems = text.match(/^[\d-*].?\s\S+/gm);
+  const listItems = text.match(/^([-*]|\d+.)\s\S+/gm);
   if (listItems && listItems.length > 1) {
     return true;
   }
diff --git a/shared/editor/lib/markdown/normalize.ts b/shared/editor/lib/markdown/normalize.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..01b8d5554
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shared/editor/lib/markdown/normalize.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/**
+ * Add support for additional syntax that users paste even though it isn't
+ * supported by the markdown parser directly by massaging the text content.
+ *
+ * @param text The incoming pasted plain text
+ */
+export default function normalizePastedMarkdown(text: string): string {
+  const CHECKBOX_REGEX = /^\s?(\[(X|\s|_|-)\]\s(.*)?)/gim;
+
+  // find checkboxes not contained in a list and wrap them in list items
+  while (text.match(CHECKBOX_REGEX)) {
+    text = text.replace(CHECKBOX_REGEX, (match) => `- ${match.trim()}`);
+  }
+
+  // find multiple newlines and insert a hard break to ensure they are respected
+  text = text.replace(/\n{3,}/g, "\n\n\\\n");
+
+  // find single newlines and insert an extra to ensure they are treated as paragraphs
+  text = text.replace(/\b\n\b/g, "\n\n");
+
+  return text;
+}
diff --git a/shared/editor/plugins/PasteHandler.ts b/shared/editor/plugins/PasteHandler.ts
index 23b5e90db..909e0361d 100644
--- a/shared/editor/plugins/PasteHandler.ts
+++ b/shared/editor/plugins/PasteHandler.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { isInTable } from "prosemirror-tables";
 import { isUrl } from "../../utils/urls";
 import Extension from "../lib/Extension";
 import isMarkdown from "../lib/isMarkdown";
+import normalizePastedMarkdown from "../lib/markdown/normalize";
 import isInCode from "../queries/isInCode";
 import { LANGUAGES } from "./Prism";
 
@@ -13,29 +14,6 @@ function isDropboxPaper(html: string): boolean {
   return html?.includes("usually-unique-id");
 }
 
-/**
- * Add support for additional syntax that users paste even though it isn't
- * supported by the markdown parser directly by massaging the text content.
- *
- * @param text The incoming pasted plain text
- */
-function normalizePastedMarkdown(text: string): string {
-  const CHECKBOX_REGEX = /^\s?(\[(X|\s|_|-)\]\s(.*)?)/gim;
-
-  // find checkboxes not contained in a list and wrap them in list items
-  while (text.match(CHECKBOX_REGEX)) {
-    text = text.replace(CHECKBOX_REGEX, (match) => `- ${match.trim()}`);
-  }
-
-  // find multiple newlines and insert a hard break to ensure they are respected
-  text = text.replace(/\n{2,}/g, "\n\n\\\n");
-
-  // find single newlines and insert an extra to ensure they are treated as paragraphs
-  text = text.replace(/\b\n\b/g, "\n\n");
-
-  return text;
-}
-
 export default class PasteHandler extends Extension {
   get name() {
     return "markdown-paste";