diff --git a/components/Blocks/TextBlock/useHandlePaste.ts b/components/Blocks/TextBlock/useHandlePaste.ts
index 1e45f54b..d12d4c9f 100644
--- a/components/Blocks/TextBlock/useHandlePaste.ts
+++ b/components/Blocks/TextBlock/useHandlePaste.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import { useEntitySetContext } from "components/EntitySetProvider";
 import { v7 } from "uuid";
 import { Replicache } from "replicache";
 import { markdownToHtml } from "src/htmlMarkdownParsers";
+import { betterIsUrl, isUrl } from "src/utils/isURL";
+import { TextSelection } from "prosemirror-state";
 
 const parser = ProsemirrorDOMParser.fromSchema(schema);
 export const useHandlePaste = (
@@ -28,6 +30,18 @@ export const useHandlePaste = (
       let text = e.clipboardData.getData("text");
       let editorState = useEditorStates.getState().editorStates[entityID];
       if (!editorState) return;
+      if (text && betterIsUrl(text)) {
+        let selection = view.state.selection as TextSelection;
+        if (selection.empty) return;
+        let tr = view.state.tr;
+        let { from, to } = selection;
+        tr.addMark(from, to, schema.marks.link.create({ href: text }));
+
+        setEditorState(entityID, {
+          editor: view.state.apply(tr),
+        });
+        return true;
+      }
       if (!textHTML && text) {
         console.log(text);
         textHTML = markdownToHtml(text);
diff --git a/src/utils/isURL.ts b/src/utils/isURL.ts
index 12c0c8c2..dabe6e05 100644
--- a/src/utils/isURL.ts
+++ b/src/utils/isURL.ts
@@ -8,3 +8,28 @@ var nonLocalhostDomainRE = /^[^\s\.]+\.\S{2,}$/;
 export function isUrl(str: string) {
   return str.includes(".");
 }
+
+export function betterIsUrl(string: string) {
+  if (typeof string !== "string") {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  var match = string.match(protocolAndDomainRE);
+  if (!match) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  var everythingAfterProtocol = match[1];
+  if (!everythingAfterProtocol) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (
+    localhostDomainRE.test(everythingAfterProtocol) ||
+    nonLocalhostDomainRE.test(everythingAfterProtocol)
+  ) {
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  return false;
+}