Rich text to Markdown: how to convert formatted text in one click

You wrote in Google Docs, Notion, or Word — now you need clean Markdown for GitHub, a README, Slack, Discord, or a static-site post. This guide shows the fastest way to do it, with no signup and no upload.

Why rich text doesn't paste cleanly

When you copy from Google Docs or Word, your clipboard carries hidden HTML with inline styles, fonts, colors, and nested spans. Pasting that straight into a Markdown file or a GitHub issue gives you either a wall of raw HTML or a stripped-down version that loses every link and bold.

A WYSIWYG Markdown editor reads the formatted clipboard, throws away the styling noise, and keeps only the structural formatting that Markdown actually supports: headings, bold, italic, lists, links, code, quotes, and tables.

Step-by-step

Open markitnice.com.
Select your text in Google Docs, Notion, Word, or any web page and copy it.
Paste into the editor on the left. Formatting is preserved.
Pick a format on the right: GitHub, CommonMark, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, HTML, or plain text.
Click Copy and paste the clean Markdown wherever you need it.

Which Markdown format should you pick?

GitHub — for READMEs, issues, PRs, and GitHub-flavored sites. Has tables, strikethrough, and task lists.
CommonMark — the strict, portable baseline. Best for static-site generators that don't support GFM extensions.
Slack — uses single asterisks for bold and underscores for italic. Paste-safe in Slack messages.
Discord — close to CommonMark but with Discord's own spoiler and quote handling.
WhatsApp — single asterisks for bold, underscores for italic, tildes for strikethrough.
HTML — when you need to drop the content into a CMS or email template.
Plain text — when formatting is more trouble than it's worth.

Common sources, common gotchas

Google Docs. Smart quotes and em dashes survive the conversion. Comments and suggestions don't — accept or reject them first.

Notion. Toggles flatten into headings followed by their content. Databases don't copy as Markdown tables; export the database as CSV instead.

Word. Track-changes markup is ignored. Footnotes become inline references — review them before publishing.

Web pages. Most articles paste cleanly. Images come through as references but you'll need to host them somewhere reachable.

Is anything sent to a server?

No. Markitnice runs entirely in your browser. Your text never leaves the page, which is why it works offline once loaded and why there's no signup.