Which flavour of Markdown is this?

GitHub Flavoured Markdown, so tables, task lists and strikethrough all work alongside the standard syntax. It renders as expected on GitHub, GitLab and in most editors.

Does formatting survive when I paste from a website?

Yes. Headings, bold and italic, lists, tables and links all come across as themselves. What gets dropped is the site's own styling — its fonts, colours, classes and scripts — which the document formats could not carry anyway, and which is where pasted content usually goes wrong.

How much text can I paste?

Up to 25 MB, which is far more than any realistic document — roughly four million words. The editor shows the size as you type and tells you before you hit the limit.

Does my text get uploaded?

No. The document is built by JavaScript running in this tab, and nothing is sent anywhere. You can test that by disconnecting from the internet before you press convert — it still works.

Do I need an account?

No. There is no sign-up, no limit on how many documents you make, and no watermark on the output.

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Text to Markdown

Write with a toolbar and download the result as Markdown. Handy if you know what you want a README or a note to look like but would rather not remember whether it is one backtick or three.

On your deviceNever uploadedGone when you close the tabHow this works

DocumentName

0 words0 B

You will get

Markdown Document

document.md

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How to use it

1
Type or paste your text
Format it on screen; the Markdown is written for you.
2
Format it however you like
Headings, bold, italic, underline and strikethrough, bullet and numbered lists, quotes, code blocks, tables and links — applied straight to the text on screen. There is no markup to learn and no preview to switch to: what you are looking at is the document.
3
Download the .md
Press Create MD. The file is the text in the box, saved as Markdown.

When this is the right tool

For writing a README, a changelog or a note when you would rather press a button than recall the syntax. You format the document on screen and the Markdown is written for you.

It is also a quick way to get something out of a web page and into Markdown: paste it in and the headings, lists and tables are converted along with everything else.

What the formatting actually does

Each control marks up real structure, and the converter carries that into the Markdown file. A heading becomes a heading in the file's outline, not just larger text; a bullet list becomes a real list; a table becomes a table with cells.

That matters more than it sounds. Structure is what lets a screen reader announce your headings, a PDF reader build a navigation pane, and Word show an outline you can collapse. Text that has merely been made bigger and bolder has none of that.

Headings: Three levels, which is as deep as most documents need. They become the document's outline.
Lists: Bulleted and numbered. Numbered lists renumber themselves as you add and remove items.
Emphasis: Bold, italic, underline and strikethrough, applied to whatever you have selected.
Blocks: Quotes, fenced code blocks, tables and horizontal rules, all rendered as their real equivalents.

What it will not do

There is no control for typeface, text size or colour on individual words, and that is deliberate rather than unfinished. Those would be per-word styling, and the honest position is that a button which silently does nothing is worse than one that is not there.

Document-level choices — page size and the typeface for the whole document — are in the settings panel beside the editor, because they apply to the finished file rather than to a selection.

Images cannot be placed from the editor. Everything here is text you typed or pasted, which is also why nothing has to be uploaded.

About these formats

Accepts

HyperText Markup Language

The markup language of the web.

Extensions: .html, .htm, .xhtml
MIME type: text/html
Best for: Web pages · Email templates · Rich exports
Compatibility: Every browser.

Write or paste plain text or Markdown — Markdown headings, lists, bold and links are rendered. Nothing is uploaded; the document is built in your browser.

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