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Remove Markdown

Convert Markdown to readable plain text. Remove heading and emphasis markers while keeping paragraphs, code contents and optional link URLs.

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A clean slate for your words.

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Your words. Just better formatted.
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Your words, without the Markdown wrapping.

Textidy reads Markdown structure to produce readable plain text. Heading and emphasis markers disappear while paragraphs, code contents and references remain. Lists keep readable markers by default, and tables use tabs between cells.

How to use Remove Markdown

  1. Paste your text, or load the example into an empty workspace.
  2. Open “Make it your own” to choose the options you need.
  3. Compare the original and result, then copy or download.

What to expect

The Keep link URLs option controls whether destinations appear alongside link labels. Code fences are removed while code contents remain. Footnotes are retained. Literal HTML stays literal in plain output; it is not executed.

Works with up to 250,000 characters. Input remains in this page’s memory until you clear, reload or leave it. Word counts use whitespace-separated words and are approximate for languages without spaces.

Examples you can check

These built-in examples use the settings described below. Visible Unicode markers appear only in these explanations.

Links and code survive

Default plain-text conversion keeps link destinations and code contents. It does not validate the source.

Input

## Notes

Read [the source](https://example.com/source).

Keep `user_id` unchanged.

Expected text output

Notes

Read the source (https://example.com/source).

Keep user_id unchanged.
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