Markdown to Plain Text Converter

What it handles

Only the formatting goes

#, **, _, backticks, > and link brackets are removed, and every word you read stays.

Lists stay lists

Bullets become - or •, numbered lists keep their numbers, and nested items keep their indentation.

Links you can still follow

Each link's address can follow its text, as in the guide (https://…), so nothing is lost.

Readable tables

Tables become aligned columns, or tab-separated rows that paste straight into Excel or Google Sheets.

Code kept exactly

Code blocks keep their text and indentation, without the backtick fences.

AI answers tidied

Citation marks such as 【4†source】 are removed, and formulas lose ChatGPT's \[ … \] delimiters.

Strip Markdown in code

import removeMarkdown from "remove-markdown";

const text = removeMarkdown("## Hello **world**"); // "Hello world"

import markdown
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

text = BeautifulSoup(markdown.markdown(md), "html.parser").get_text()

pandoc notes.md -t plain -o notes.txt

Questions and answers