To Markdown and back

Trimd is command-line tool to convert between HTML, Markdown, and plain text, powered by unified.js libraries. It runs in Node.js and can be installed globally with npm:

npm install -g trimd

The full documentation is available on the GitHub repository page.

Online HTML to Markdown converter

I’ve used the same libraries as for the command-line tool to make a companion web tool focused on converting HTML to Markdown:

Trimd HTML to Markdown →

All operations are performed locally, without any data leaving the browser.

The web tool has the advantage of being able to access the text/html entry of the clipboard, which makes it ideal for converting content from many native apps directly to Markdown:

• Rich content from a word processor to formatted Markdown text;
• Content from a spreadsheet app to a Markdown table;
• A browser bookmark folder to a Markdown list.

Colophon: The Trimd wordmark is typeset in IBM Plex Mono, a typeface by Bold Monday.

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