Google Docs, Word or Notion to Markdown

Copy from a document or a web page, paste it here, and copy clean Markdown back out. It all happens in your browser, so nothing you paste leaves this page.

Coffee, the Markdown editor this site is for, does this by itself: paste formatted text into a note on the Mac and its headings, lists, tables, links and code come across. More ways to convert Word and Google Docs.

How it works

When you copy formatted text, the clipboard holds an HTML version as well as plain text. This page reads that HTML and writes Markdown from it. It knows the quirks of the usual sources: the bold and italic Google Docs writes as styles, Word's lists, which arrive as numbered paragraphs, and Notion's to-do boxes.

• Headings become # to ######.
• Nested lists keep their levels, and to-do items become - [ ] and - [x].
• Tables become pipe tables, with the first row as the header.
• Text in a monospaced font becomes code, and a run of such lines becomes a code block.
• Links keep their address, with Google's redirect links unwrapped.

Questions

What comes across?

Headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, links, bulleted and numbered lists with their nesting, to-do boxes, quotes, tables, code and images that are on the web. Fonts, colours, comments and page layout don't, as Markdown has no place for them.

Why are my headings plain text?

They were probably made by hand with a bigger font rather than a heading style. Only real headings, such as Heading 1 in Docs or Word, are marked as headings on the clipboard.

Is what I paste sent anywhere?

No. The conversion runs in this page, in your browser. Nothing you paste is sent to a server or stored.

Also free: Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers to a Markdown table. Moving a whole workspace? See exporting Notion to Markdown.