Markdown, and what to do with it

• MarkItDown alternatives, sorted by why you are looking — MarkItDown is a Python library aimed at LLM pipelines, and its own README says so. Here is what to use when that is not the shape of your problem.
• Ten Markdown Converters Compared by What They Will Not Read — Every comparison counts formats supported. The useful count is the other one — what each of ten converters refuses, and whether it tells you before or after
• What a Document Costs an Assistant, and How Not to Spend It — A token is about 3.5 characters, so a document either enters the context window or it does not — the arithmetic of converting outside a conversation
• What Pandoc is, and when you do not need it — Pandoc is one program with fifty readers and sixty-six writers and a document model between them. What that buys you, and the jobs it is too much for.
• Convert an EPUB to Markdown: Spine Order, Chapter Titles and Footnotes — An EPUB is a website in a zip — what Pandoc, calibre and a direct read each give you, and the four things that break when a book becomes one Markdown file
• Convert PowerPoint to Markdown: Slides, Speaker Notes and Reading Order — What survives turning a .pptx into Markdown, where the speaker notes go, and what Pandoc's new deck reader still leaves behind — six routes compared
• Where the Pictures Go When You Export a Document — Every export puts its images somewhere, and most conversions leave them there — where each format keeps them, the three ways out, and the arithmetic of embedding
• Convert a Confluence Page to Markdown: Every Export, and the HTML Underneath — How to get a Confluence page or space into Markdown — why there is no native export, what the HTML export keeps, and what every macro loses on the way
• Convert a Notion Export to Markdown: Every Route, Ids Included — How to turn a Notion "Export as Markdown & CSV" zip into clean Markdown — the id suffix on every filename, what a script fixes, and what only merging solves
• Convert an Obsidian Vault to Markdown: Wikilinks, Embeds and What Stays — An Obsidian vault is already Markdown files — what turning it into standard Markdown actually fixes, from wikilinks and embeds to callouts and Dataview
• Free AI Summarizer for Markdown, HTML and Other Documents — Free ways to get an AI summary of a Markdown, HTML, Word or CSV document — a built-in summarizer, a free chat model, and what each one costs in setup or privacy
• The Best Free Confluence to Markdown Converter in 2026: Every Option Compared — Which free Confluence to Markdown converter is free in practice: where the trials stop, why the built-in export wants space-admin rights, and what to use instead
• A Free Notion to Markdown Converter: Every Option, and Where Free Has a Catch — Compare the free ways to turn Notion pages into Markdown — the export button, a browser converter, notion-to-md, Obsidian Importer — and where free has a catch
• Free Obsidian to Markdown Converter: Every Option Compared — An Obsidian vault is already Markdown, so nothing needs buying — compare the free tools that fix wikilinks, embeds, block references and callouts
• MCP Document Converter: Converting and Sharing Documents from a Conversation — How an MCP document converter turns Markdown an assistant just wrote into a page you can send — the nineteen tools, the sign-in with no key, and the real risks
• The Best CSV to Markdown Table Converter in 2026: Every Option Compared — Compare CSV and TSV to Markdown table converters by how they handle quoted fields, embedded commas and line breaks inside a cell
• Best HTML to Markdown Converters in 2026: Compared and Tested — HTML to Markdown converters in 2026 compared — online tools, libraries, extractors and clippers — by what they keep, what they drop, and where the article goes.
• Best JSON to Markdown Converters in 2026: Compared and Tested — Compare the ways to turn JSON into readable Markdown — jq, jtbl, Miller, pandas and the browser — by the shapes each handles and the decisions it makes for you
• Best Markdown to HTML Converters in 2026: Compared and Tested — Compare Markdown to HTML converters by flavour support, sanitising, and whether the file they hand back opens on its own or arrives as a fragment
• Best Word to Markdown Converters in 2026: Every Way to Convert Word to Markdown — Compare the ways to convert Word to Markdown in 2026 — browser converters, Pandoc, mammoth, Google Docs and Word plugins — and what a .docx loses on the way
• Dillinger Alternatives in 2026: Grouped by Why You Are Leaving — Dillinger alternatives grouped by the reason you want one: a converter rather than an editor, something offline, something in your editor, or a script.
• Markdown to HTML: what actually happens to your file — What a Markdown to HTML converter does to your file — parse, render, sanitise, wrap — and what a failure at each of the four stages looks like on screen
• The Best Markdown Editor in 2026: Eleven Compared by What They Do to Your Files — Eleven Markdown editors compared in 2026 — VS Code, Obsidian, Typora, iA Writer, Zettlr, Notion and Vim — judged by where they keep your text and what they export.
• Best Online Document Converters in 2026: Where Your File Actually Goes — Online document converters compared by what happens to your file: browser-side tools that upload nothing, hosted services and their retention
• StackEdit Alternatives in 2026: Sync, Files, Desktop and One-Off Exports — StackEdit alternatives grouped by the reason you are looking: synchronisation that failed, documents you want as files, a desktop application, or one export.
• How to Convert Markdown to HTML Online, Without Installing Anything — The steps for converting a Markdown file to HTML in a browser tab, what to check in the output before you send it, and when a build is the better route
• Markdown escape characters: the full reference — Which characters a backslash escapes, where escaping does nothing, when a character reference is the better answer, and the cases that quietly rewrite your text
• How to Convert HTML to Markdown: A Method for Each Starting Point — How to convert HTML to Markdown from a file, a browser tab, a string in code or a whole site, and why cleaning the page furniture first decides the result.
• Markdown vs Word for Documentation: Which Format Should Own the Source — Markdown or Word for documentation, decided by what the docs have to do - review, who can edit, history, page layout, search, publishing and signing
• How to save a web page as Markdown you actually own — Four ways to turn a web page into Markdown — reader mode, saved HTML, clipper extensions and the command line — what each keeps, and what happens to the images
• How to share a Markdown file with someone who does not use Markdown — The honest ways to share a Markdown file with a reader who will not install anything — attachment, Gist, repository, HTML file, link — and what revoking takes
• How to Convert DOCX to Markdown: The Browser, Pandoc and mammoth Routes — Convert a .docx to Markdown three ways, learn why the archive decides what survives, and get the checklist for finding what the conversion quietly dropped
• How to Convert Google Docs to Markdown: Every Route and What It Costs — Google Docs exports Markdown itself now. What File to Download to Markdown keeps, when the .docx route is better, and the Docs features Markdown cannot hold
• Do I Need a Static Site Generator? A Decision Guide — A static site generator buys navigation, templates, search and taxonomies, and charges a toolchain for them. Three questions decide whether you need one.
• How to Convert a CSV to a Markdown Table Without Breaking the Data — Turn a CSV into a Markdown table, and handle the traps: quoted commas, doubled quotes, in-cell line breaks, pipes, semicolons, BOMs and a missing header row
• Excel to Markdown Table: Every Route, and What Each One Loses — How to turn an Excel range into a Markdown table, and what happens to dates, leading zeros, merged cells and the file's encoding on the way across
• JSON to Markdown Table: What Converts Cleanly and What Does Not — Turning JSON into a Markdown table: the one shape that works, what to do with nesting, missing keys and JSON Lines, and when sections beat a table
• How to open a .md file on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android — A .md file is plain text, which is why double-clicking opens a code editor or nothing — how to read it as text, read it rendered, and set the default app
• Markdown to PDF: Every Route and What Each One Costs — Every route from Markdown to PDF compared - printing from the browser, Pandoc with LaTeX, wkhtmltopdf, WeasyPrint, headless Chrome - and the parts that break
• Markdown Tables That Survive Conversion: Every Way One Breaks — Why a Markdown table is not rendering: the separator row, alignment colons, blank lines, escaped pipes and GFM against CommonMark, with a symptom table
• Choosing a Markdown CLI converter, and running it without surprises — Converting Markdown to HTML from a terminal: Pandoc, cmark-gfm, comrak, Node, Python, an API call, and the quoting and globbing that fails in CI
• Publishing Markdown from a pull request with GitHub Actions — Render the Markdown a pull request changed and comment one link: the workflow line by line, why a fork gets no secrets, and what each alternative costs
• Markdown to HTML in VS Code: Preview, Export and Convert on Save — The VS Code preview runs markdown-it, but the preview stylesheet is never the exported stylesheet. What each export route puts around the fragment.
• Markdown to Word: How to Get a .docx Somebody Can Edit — Getting Markdown into a .docx a reviewer can edit: Pandoc with a reference document, the HTML route, Google Docs, and what the trip back to Markdown loses
• Markdown to Text: Strip the Syntax, Keep the Words — Convert Markdown to plain text without wrecking it - why a regex breaks on fences, escapes, tables and reference links, and what Pandoc, remark and lynx do
• Typora Alternatives in 2026: Free, Cross-Platform and In-Browser — Typora alternatives grouped by the reason you are looking: a free licence, a phone, a browser tab, or one export you need to send today.
• Markdown XSS: Markdown allows raw HTML, which means it allows scripts — Markdown passes raw HTML through, so a .md file can carry scripts: the vectors worth knowing, allow-lists against block-lists, and what a CSP adds
• Turndown vs five HTML-to-Markdown libraries: what each loses — Six libraries side by side on tables, nested lists, code blocks and whitespace, with Turndown's addRule, keep and remove shown on the HTML that needs them.
• mammoth.js in the browser: convertToHtml with an arrayBuffer — Read a .docx in the browser or in Node: the arrayBuffer call, style maps naming your own HTML, images as base64, and the messages array nobody reads.
• Markdown footnotes: the syntax, and who actually renders it — Footnotes are in no Markdown specification. The syntax GitHub and Pandoc accept, which parsers render it, the HTML it becomes, and what to do when one does not
• Markdown code blocks: the fence rules and the HTML they emit — Closing fences at least as long as the opening, tilde fences, code inside a list, backticks in a sentence: every rule with the case that breaks it.
• CommonMark vs GFM: what each engine supports, in one table — What CommonMark settled, the five extensions GFM adds, what is in neither of them, and ten engines lined up so you can predict what breaks where.
• Markdown Front Matter, and What Converters Do With It — The block at the top of a Markdown file gets stripped, rendered, turned into a table or read as metadata, and which one happens is decided by the tool
• What Not to Keep From a .docx: docx to Markdown Formatting Lost — An inventory of what a Word file carries and Markdown cannot express, which losses matter, which are habits worth dropping, and what to do about captions
• Is an Online Markdown Converter Safe? How to Check Instead of Trusting — Whether an online converter is safe comes down to four checkable things: if the file is uploaded, how long it is kept, who reads it, and what the terms claim
• Markdown vs HTML: Which to Write In, and When to Switch — Markdown or HTML? Decide by what happens to the document next — review, conversion, exact layout, interactive parts — and which limits are features
• Every Pandoc alternative worth knowing, sorted by why you want one — Pandoc is unmatched at DOCX, EPUB, citations and typeset PDF. If HTML is the only output you need, here are the alternatives, sorted by why you are looking.
• Release notes people actually read — Write release notes instead of a commit log: the six Keep a Changelog types, what a breaking change means, which generators help, and what they cannot write.
• Self-contained HTML explained: what a single file HTML document really is — What a single file HTML document contains, what inlining styles and images costs in bytes, how to prove it fetches nothing, and when it is the wrong format
• Converting Documents with an API: What Makes One Usable — What a document conversion API needs before a script can trust it: an honest request body, real errors, published limits, and a document you can fetch back
• How to convert multiple Markdown files at once, without lying to your build — Converting a folder of Markdown files: how far a glob reaches, where the output should land, xargs and ordering, skipping unchanged files, and honest exit codes
• Images and links that still work after you send the file — Relative paths, GitHub raw URLs, data URIs, alt text, SVG and heading anchors: why a Markdown image or link breaks when the file moves, and how to fix each one
• Documentation that lives next to the code — Why documentation in the repository stays closer to true - the four kinds of docs, a directory that scales, review that catches drift, and where it fails
• Rendering Markdown in JavaScript without shipping a hole — marked, markdown-it, unified, micromark and snarkdown compared, with the render-then-sanitise pattern that keeps XSS out of the HTML you ship
• Your AI assistant writes Markdown. Your colleagues do not read it. — Why chat assistants answer in Markdown, what survives the paste into email, Slack, Word, Notion or a ticket, and the duller route that holds: save, convert, send
• Turning a folder of Markdown files into one document — Merging a folder of Markdown files into one - ordering, heading levels, cross-file links, image paths, duplicate anchors and the contents list, with scripts
• Markdown line breaks and lists: 14 symptoms, 14 rules — A newline that became a space, a list that became a code block, numbers that renumbered themselves: the symptom, the rule doing it, and what to write instead.
• Rendering Markdown to HTML in Python — Python-Markdown, markdown2, mistune and markdown-it-py compared: the extensions each leaves off, sanitising with nh3, and a directory script that fails a build
• Getting Markdown out of Notion, Obsidian, Confluence and the rest — Every export path out of Notion, Obsidian, Confluence, Google Docs and Word — what each one produces, what it quietly mangles, and how to repair it
• How to judge a Markdown converter in five minutes — Write down what your situation demands, then run one awkward test document through the candidates. Seven checks and a scoring sheet you can copy.