Make.text is a bookmarklet for turning a web page into Markdown syntax.
It works in Firefox 2 (Linux and Mac), Safari 2 (Mac), Konqueror 3.5 (Linux), and Opera 9 (Linux and Mac).
It does not work in Internet Explorer (and I don’t have a Windows machine to debug it on).
I’m told it does not work with Omniweb 5.5.
To install it, drag » Make.text « to your bookmarks toolbar.
To use the bookmarklet, visit the web page you want to convert, and click on the “Make.text” item in your toolbar. A new window will open with the Markdown syntax for the page.
If you use Firefox, the Aardvark extension is a useful companion tool. Aardvark lets you delete elements from a web page in your browser. I use it before Make.text to get rid of ads and other content that I don’t want to save.
<a href="foo"><h1>bar</h1></a>
There’s no way to translate this into Markdown syntax using both
[][] and #. I might try
# [bar](foo)
as a reasonable approximation.—Trevor Jim