Paste to Markdown

Paste rich text. Get clean Markdown. Copied automatically.

Live at paste-to.md.

Most rich-text editors export Markdown full of artefacts: Notion's wrapping divs, Google Docs' span soup, Airtable's nested formatting. This single-page app strips all of it and gives you something you can drop into a README, a PR description, or a Slack post.

Features

• No install, no build, one HTML file
• Auto-copies output to your clipboard
• Headings (h1–h6), bold, italic, strikethrough, highlight, sub/superscript, inline code, code blocks (with language hints), blockquotes, links, images
• Ordered, unordered, and nested lists; checkboxes (Notion to-dos, Google Docs checklists)
• Tables (GitHub-flavoured Markdown)
• Horizontal rules
• Escapes Markdown-significant characters in your text so "5 * 3" stays as "5 \* 3" instead of becoming italic

Privacy

100% client-side. The page is static HTML and JavaScript — your pasted content never leaves your browser.

Run locally

git clone https://github.com/dewierwan/paste-to-markdown
open paste-to-markdown/index.html

That is the whole setup for using the site. No npm install needed.

Contributing

All conversion logic lives in index.html, inside convertNodeToMarkdown. PRs welcome, especially for:

• New element types
• Better support for a specific source (Slack, Confluence, Linear, Quip)
• Whitespace and nesting edge cases
• Real-world HTML fixtures under tests/fixtures/<source>/<scenario>.html paired with <scenario>.expected.md

Run the contributor checks before opening a PR:

npm install
npm test
npm run lint:spell
npm run lint:html

npm install is contributor-only — end users still just open index.html.

License

MIT