Plain Markdown

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

Changelog

• Jun 6, 2026
  description

  Convert any webpage into clean Markdown with one click.
  
  Conversion runs in your browser. No account, no signup.
  Edit inline, run AI actions like summarize, fact-check, or your own prompts, and send to your notes app.
  
  ✅  One-click conversion with a live Markdown editor
  ✅  Works on dynamic / heavy sites
  ✅  AI actions on the page: summarize, fact-check,.. or any custom prompt
  ✅  Send results to Obsidian, Notion, or Readwise
  ✅  Floating side panel for longer edits
  ✅  Copy, download, or keep editing locally
  
  Who uses it
    - Students and researchers saving readings, lectures, and references
    - Engineers preparing clean context for AI assistants
    - Writers archiving sources for later reading
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.6.1
       - Write multi-line AI prompts
        - Cleaner conversions, with more accurate author detection
        - BYOK: model search matches words in any order
  
  Version 1.6.0
      - New BYOK ("Bring Your Own Key") lifetime tier: one-time purchase to run AI actions with your own OpenRouter API key, no monthly cap.
    - Pick any model from OpenRouter's catalog (Claude, GPT, Gemini, and
      others). Set a different model per action if you want.
    - Fixed pages on Play Store, Amazon, Google search, and other single-page
      app sites occasionally carrying the previous page's title or content
      into the popup, sticky sessions, and Send-to-Notion / Readwise / Obsidian.
  
  For older releases see https://plainmarkdown.com/changelog

  Convert any webpage into clean Markdown with one click.
  
  Conversion runs in your browser. No account, no signup.
  Edit inline, run AI actions like summarize, fact-check, or your own prompts, and send to your notes app.
  
  ✅  One-click conversion with a live Markdown editor
  ✅  Multi-tab capture
  ✅  Works on dynamic / heavy sites
  ✅  AI actions on the page: summarize, fact-check,.. or any custom prompt
  ✅  Send results to Obsidian, Notion, or Readwise
  ✅  Floating side panel for longer edits
  ✅  Copy, download, or keep editing locally
  
  Who uses it
    - Students and researchers saving readings, lectures, and references
    - Engineers preparing clean context for AI assistants
    - Writers archiving sources for later reading
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.7.0
      - Capture tabs. Convert several open tabs into one Markdown document, all locally.
      - Faster popup open (smaller startup payload).
      - Reading other tabs needs a one-time permission you grant in Settings.
  
  Version 1.6.2
     - Opening the extension never changes the page you're on
     - Keep or strip image tags in captured Markdown
     - Images fold into a clean pill in the editor
  
  Version 1.6.1
     - Write multi-line AI prompts
     - Cleaner conversions, with more accurate author detection
     - BYOK: model search matches words in any order
  
  Version 1.6.0
      - New BYOK ("Bring Your Own Key") lifetime tier: one-time purchase to run AI actions with your own OpenRouter API key, no monthly cap.
    - Pick any model from OpenRouter's catalog (Claude, GPT, Gemini, and
      others). Set a different model per action if you want.
    - Fixed pages on Play Store, Amazon, Google search, and other single-page
      app sites occasionally carrying the previous page's title or content
      into the popup, sticky sessions, and Send-to-Notion / Readwise / Obsidian.
  
  For older releases see https://plainmarkdown.com/changelog

• May 31, 2026
  description

  Convert any webpage into clean Markdown with one click.
  
  Conversion runs in your browser. No account, no signup.
  Edit inline, run AI actions like summarize, fact-check, or your own prompts, and send to your notes app.
  
  ✅  One-click conversion with a live Markdown editor
  ✅  Handles tough pages: long threads, comment-heavy discussions and social posts
  ✅  AI actions on the page: summarize, fact-check, or any custom prompt
  ✅  Send results to Obsidian, Notion, or Readwise
  ✅  Floating side panel for longer edits
  ✅  Copy, download, or keep editing locally
  
  Who uses it
    - Students and researchers saving readings, lectures, and references
    - Engineers preparing clean context for AI assistants
    - Writers archiving sources for later reading
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.6.0
      - New BYOK ("Bring Your Own Key") lifetime tier: one-time purchase to run AI actions with your own OpenRouter API key, no monthly cap.
    - Pick any model from OpenRouter's catalog (Claude, GPT, Gemini, and
      others). Set a different model per action if you want.
    - Fixed pages on Play Store, Amazon, Google search, and other single-page
      app sites occasionally carrying the previous page's title or content
      into the popup, sticky sessions, and Send-to-Notion / Readwise / Obsidian.
  
  Version 1.5.4
  - Cleaner Action Items on comment heavy sites
  - Fixed a bug with exporting to Notion
  - Update brand toolbar icon
  
  Version 1.5.2
  - Better extraction on more sites
  - Raise custom AI actions cap from 2,000 to 10,000 characters
  
  Version 1.5.0
   - AI actions: summarize, translate, or run any prompt
   - Send to your tools: Obsidian, Readwise, Notion, and more on the way
   - Customize the built-in actions or add your own
   - Refreshed Settings, empty states, and loading states
  
  For older releases see https://plainmarkdown.com/changelog

  Convert any webpage into clean Markdown with one click.
  
  Conversion runs in your browser. No account, no signup.
  Edit inline, run AI actions like summarize, fact-check, or your own prompts, and send to your notes app.
  
  ✅  One-click conversion with a live Markdown editor
  ✅  Works on dynamic / heavy sites
  ✅  AI actions on the page: summarize, fact-check,.. or any custom prompt
  ✅  Send results to Obsidian, Notion, or Readwise
  ✅  Floating side panel for longer edits
  ✅  Copy, download, or keep editing locally
  
  Who uses it
    - Students and researchers saving readings, lectures, and references
    - Engineers preparing clean context for AI assistants
    - Writers archiving sources for later reading
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.6.1
       - Write multi-line AI prompts
        - Cleaner conversions, with more accurate author detection
        - BYOK: model search matches words in any order
  
  Version 1.6.0
      - New BYOK ("Bring Your Own Key") lifetime tier: one-time purchase to run AI actions with your own OpenRouter API key, no monthly cap.
    - Pick any model from OpenRouter's catalog (Claude, GPT, Gemini, and
      others). Set a different model per action if you want.
    - Fixed pages on Play Store, Amazon, Google search, and other single-page
      app sites occasionally carrying the previous page's title or content
      into the popup, sticky sessions, and Send-to-Notion / Readwise / Obsidian.
  
  For older releases see https://plainmarkdown.com/changelog

• May 24, 2026
  description

  Convert any webpage into clean Markdown with one click.
  
  Conversion runs in your browser. No account, no signup.
  Edit inline, run AI actions like summarize, fact-check, or your own prompts, and send to your notes app.
  
  ✅  One-click conversion with a live Markdown editor
  ✅  Handles tough pages: long threads, comment-heavy discussions and social posts
  ✅  AI actions on the page: summarize, fact-check, or any custom prompt
  ✅  Send results to Obsidian, Notion, or Readwise
  ✅  Floating side panel for longer edits
  ✅  Copy, download, or keep editing locally
  
  Who uses it
    - Students and researchers saving readings, lectures, and references
    - Engineers preparing clean context for AI assistants
    - Writers archiving sources for later reading
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.5.4
  - Cleaner Action Items on comment heavy sites
  - Fixed a bug with exporting to Notion
  - Update brand toolbar icon
  
  Version 1.5.2
  - Better extraction on more sites
  - Raise custom AI actions cap from 2,000 to 10,000 characters
  
  Version 1.5.0
   - AI actions: summarize, translate, or run any prompt
   - Send to your tools: Obsidian, Readwise, Notion, and more on the way
   - Customize the built-in actions or add your own
   - Refreshed Settings, empty states, and loading states
  
  For older releases see https://plainmarkdown.com/changelog

  Convert any webpage into clean Markdown with one click.
  
  Conversion runs in your browser. No account, no signup.
  Edit inline, run AI actions like summarize, fact-check, or your own prompts, and send to your notes app.
  
  ✅  One-click conversion with a live Markdown editor
  ✅  Handles tough pages: long threads, comment-heavy discussions and social posts
  ✅  AI actions on the page: summarize, fact-check, or any custom prompt
  ✅  Send results to Obsidian, Notion, or Readwise
  ✅  Floating side panel for longer edits
  ✅  Copy, download, or keep editing locally
  
  Who uses it
    - Students and researchers saving readings, lectures, and references
    - Engineers preparing clean context for AI assistants
    - Writers archiving sources for later reading
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.6.0
      - New BYOK ("Bring Your Own Key") lifetime tier: one-time purchase to run AI actions with your own OpenRouter API key, no monthly cap.
    - Pick any model from OpenRouter's catalog (Claude, GPT, Gemini, and
      others). Set a different model per action if you want.
    - Fixed pages on Play Store, Amazon, Google search, and other single-page
      app sites occasionally carrying the previous page's title or content
      into the popup, sticky sessions, and Send-to-Notion / Readwise / Obsidian.
  
  Version 1.5.4
  - Cleaner Action Items on comment heavy sites
  - Fixed a bug with exporting to Notion
  - Update brand toolbar icon
  
  Version 1.5.2
  - Better extraction on more sites
  - Raise custom AI actions cap from 2,000 to 10,000 characters
  
  Version 1.5.0
   - AI actions: summarize, translate, or run any prompt
   - Send to your tools: Obsidian, Readwise, Notion, and more on the way
   - Customize the built-in actions or add your own
   - Refreshed Settings, empty states, and loading states
  
  For older releases see https://plainmarkdown.com/changelog

• May 24, 2026
  host_permissions

  https://readwise.io/*, https://api.notion.com/*, https://api.plainmarkdown.com/*

  https://readwise.io/*, https://api.notion.com/*, https://api.plainmarkdown.com/*, https://openrouter.ai/*

• May 18, 2026
  description

  Plain Markdown turns any webpage into clean Markdown, then lets you act on it.
  
  ✔️ One-click conversion with a live Markdown editor 
  ✔️ AI actions on the page: summarize, translate, or run any prompt
  ✔️ Send to your tools: Obsidian, Readwise, Notion, and more on the way
  ✔️ Floating side panel for longer edits
  ✔️ Copy, download, or keep editing locally
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.5.2
  - Better extraction on more sites
  - Raise custom AI actions cap from 2,000 to 10,000 characters
  
  Version 1.5.0
   - AI actions: summarize, translate, or run any prompt
   - Send to your tools: Obsidian, Readwise, Notion, and more on the way
   - Customize the built-in actions or add your own
   - Refreshed Settings, empty states, and loading states
  
  For older releases see https://plainmarkdown.com/changelog

  Convert any webpage into clean Markdown with one click.
  
  Conversion runs in your browser. No account, no signup.
  Edit inline, run AI actions like summarize, fact-check, or your own prompts, and send to your notes app.
  
  ✅  One-click conversion with a live Markdown editor
  ✅  Handles tough pages: long threads, comment-heavy discussions and social posts
  ✅  AI actions on the page: summarize, fact-check, or any custom prompt
  ✅  Send results to Obsidian, Notion, or Readwise
  ✅  Floating side panel for longer edits
  ✅  Copy, download, or keep editing locally
  
  Who uses it
    - Students and researchers saving readings, lectures, and references
    - Engineers preparing clean context for AI assistants
    - Writers archiving sources for later reading
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.5.4
  - Cleaner Action Items on comment heavy sites
  - Fixed a bug with exporting to Notion
  - Update brand toolbar icon
  
  Version 1.5.2
  - Better extraction on more sites
  - Raise custom AI actions cap from 2,000 to 10,000 characters
  
  Version 1.5.0
   - AI actions: summarize, translate, or run any prompt
   - Send to your tools: Obsidian, Readwise, Notion, and more on the way
   - Customize the built-in actions or add your own
   - Refreshed Settings, empty states, and loading states
  
  For older releases see https://plainmarkdown.com/changelog

• May 18, 2026
  category

  productivity/developer

  productivity/workflow

• May 12, 2026
  description

  Plain Markdown turns any webpage into clean Markdown, then lets you act on it.
  
  ✔️ One-click conversion with a live Markdown editor 
  ✔️ AI actions on the page: summarize, translate, or run any prompt
  ✔️ Send to your tools: Obsidian, Readwise, Notion, and more on the way
  ✔️ Floating side panel for longer edits
  ✔️ Copy, download, or keep editing locally
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.5.0
   - AI actions: summarize, translate, or run any prompt
   - Send to your tools: Obsidian, Readwise, Notion, and more on the way
   - Customize the built-in actions or add your own
   - Refreshed Settings, empty states, and loading states
  
  For older releases see https://plainmarkdown.com/changelog

  Plain Markdown turns any webpage into clean Markdown, then lets you act on it.
  
  ✔️ One-click conversion with a live Markdown editor 
  ✔️ AI actions on the page: summarize, translate, or run any prompt
  ✔️ Send to your tools: Obsidian, Readwise, Notion, and more on the way
  ✔️ Floating side panel for longer edits
  ✔️ Copy, download, or keep editing locally
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.5.2
  - Better extraction on more sites
  - Raise custom AI actions cap from 2,000 to 10,000 characters
  
  Version 1.5.0
   - AI actions: summarize, translate, or run any prompt
   - Send to your tools: Obsidian, Readwise, Notion, and more on the way
   - Customize the built-in actions or add your own
   - Refreshed Settings, empty states, and loading states
  
  For older releases see https://plainmarkdown.com/changelog

• May 7, 2026
  description

  Plain Markdown converts any webpage into clean markdown in one click.
  No login, no server, no tracking.
  
  ✅ Converts pages to clean Markdown with a live editor
  ✅ Side panel for longer edits
  ✅ Auto‑saves per page and restores on reopen
  ✅ Find & replace (Cmd/Ctrl+F)
  ✅ Copy or download as Markdown
  
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.4.0
  - Complex tables now convert to clean markdown
  - Cleaner link handling
  - 40% smaller extension size
   
  Version 1.3.1
  - Extract content from sites using shadow DOM (Reddit now supported)
  
  Version 1.3.0
  - More formatting marks now fold away when you're not editing
  - Strikethrough support
  - Floating panel now looks consistent on every website
  - Better content extraction on more sites, including YouTube transcripts
  
  Version 1.2.1
  - Link folding: inline link URLs are now hidden until you place the cursor on the link, reducing noise on link heavy pages
  
  Version 1.2.0
  - One-click copy to clipboard mode
  - Option to exclude images from the output
  - Better content extraction across more websites
  
  Version 1.1.0
  - Added theme setting: dark, light or system
  - Added open behavior setting: popup or floating panel
  - Added source info setting: include page title, URL, author and date at the top of the output
  - Added More menu with Re-run, Download and Settings
  - Improved code block for better readability
  - Fixed link contrast in light mode
  - Fixed tables missing from some converted pages
  
  Version 1.0.1
  - Cleaner Markdown output across more websites.
  - Improved reliability for complex pages.
  - Full page conversion is now the standard for a simpler, more predictable experience.

  Plain Markdown turns any webpage into clean Markdown, then lets you act on it.
  
  ✔️ One-click conversion with a live Markdown editor 
  ✔️ AI actions on the page: summarize, translate, or run any prompt
  ✔️ Send to your tools: Obsidian, Readwise, Notion, and more on the way
  ✔️ Floating side panel for longer edits
  ✔️ Copy, download, or keep editing locally
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.5.0
   - AI actions: summarize, translate, or run any prompt
   - Send to your tools: Obsidian, Readwise, Notion, and more on the way
   - Customize the built-in actions or add your own
   - Refreshed Settings, empty states, and loading states
  
  For older releases see https://plainmarkdown.com/changelog

• May 7, 2026
  host_permissions

  (empty)

  https://readwise.io/*, https://api.notion.com/*, https://api.plainmarkdown.com/*

• May 7, 2026
  permissions

  activeTab, scripting, storage

  activeTab, scripting, storage, clipboardWrite, identity

• Apr 16, 2026
  description

  Plain Markdown converts any webpage into clean markdown in one click.
  No login, no server, no tracking.
  
  ✅ Converts pages to clean Markdown with a live editor
  ✅ Side panel for longer edits
  ✅ Auto‑saves per page and restores on reopen
  ✅ Find & replace (Cmd/Ctrl+F)
  ✅ Copy or download as Markdown
  
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.3.1
  - Extract content from sites using shadow DOM (Reddit now supported)
  
  Version 1.3.0
  - More formatting marks now fold away when you're not editing
  - Strikethrough support
  - Floating panel now looks consistent on every website
  - Better content extraction on more sites, including YouTube transcripts
  
  Version 1.2.1
  - Link folding: inline link URLs are now hidden until you place the cursor on the link, reducing noise on link heavy pages
  
  Version 1.2.0
  - One-click copy to clipboard mode
  - Option to exclude images from the output
  - Better content extraction across more websites
  
  Version 1.1.0
  - Added theme setting: dark, light or system
  - Added open behavior setting: popup or floating panel
  - Added source info setting: include page title, URL, author and date at the top of the output
  - Added More menu with Re-run, Download and Settings
  - Improved code block for better readability
  - Fixed link contrast in light mode
  - Fixed tables missing from some converted pages
  
  Version 1.0.1
  - Cleaner Markdown output across more websites.
  - Improved reliability for complex pages.
  - Full page conversion is now the standard for a simpler, more predictable experience.

  Plain Markdown converts any webpage into clean markdown in one click.
  No login, no server, no tracking.
  
  ✅ Converts pages to clean Markdown with a live editor
  ✅ Side panel for longer edits
  ✅ Auto‑saves per page and restores on reopen
  ✅ Find & replace (Cmd/Ctrl+F)
  ✅ Copy or download as Markdown
  
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.4.0
  - Complex tables now convert to clean markdown
  - Cleaner link handling
  - 40% smaller extension size
   
  Version 1.3.1
  - Extract content from sites using shadow DOM (Reddit now supported)
  
  Version 1.3.0
  - More formatting marks now fold away when you're not editing
  - Strikethrough support
  - Floating panel now looks consistent on every website
  - Better content extraction on more sites, including YouTube transcripts
  
  Version 1.2.1
  - Link folding: inline link URLs are now hidden until you place the cursor on the link, reducing noise on link heavy pages
  
  Version 1.2.0
  - One-click copy to clipboard mode
  - Option to exclude images from the output
  - Better content extraction across more websites
  
  Version 1.1.0
  - Added theme setting: dark, light or system
  - Added open behavior setting: popup or floating panel
  - Added source info setting: include page title, URL, author and date at the top of the output
  - Added More menu with Re-run, Download and Settings
  - Improved code block for better readability
  - Fixed link contrast in light mode
  - Fixed tables missing from some converted pages
  
  Version 1.0.1
  - Cleaner Markdown output across more websites.
  - Improved reliability for complex pages.
  - Full page conversion is now the standard for a simpler, more predictable experience.

• Apr 1, 2026
  description

  Plain Markdown converts any webpage into clean markdown in one click.
  No login, no server, no tracking.
  
  ✅ Converts pages to clean Markdown with a live editor
  ✅ Side panel for longer edits
  ✅ Auto‑saves per page and restores on reopen
  ✅ Find & replace (Cmd/Ctrl+F)
  ✅ Copy or download as Markdown
  
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.3.0
  - More formatting marks now fold away when you're not editing
  - Strikethrough support
  - Floating panel now looks consistent on every website
  - Better content extraction on more sites, including YouTube transcripts
  
  Version 1.2.1
  - Link folding: inline link URLs are now hidden until you place the cursor on the link, reducing noise on link heavy pages
  
  Version 1.2.0
  - One-click copy to clipboard mode
  - Option to exclude images from the output
  - Better content extraction across more websites
  
  Version 1.1.0
  - Added theme setting: dark, light or system
  - Added open behavior setting: popup or floating panel
  - Added source info setting: include page title, URL, author and date at the top of the output
  - Added More menu with Re-run, Download and Settings
  - Improved code block for better readability
  - Fixed link contrast in light mode
  - Fixed tables missing from some converted pages
  
  Version 1.0.1
  - Cleaner Markdown output across more websites.
  - Improved reliability for complex pages.
  - Full page conversion is now the standard for a simpler, more predictable experience.

  Plain Markdown converts any webpage into clean markdown in one click.
  No login, no server, no tracking.
  
  ✅ Converts pages to clean Markdown with a live editor
  ✅ Side panel for longer edits
  ✅ Auto‑saves per page and restores on reopen
  ✅ Find & replace (Cmd/Ctrl+F)
  ✅ Copy or download as Markdown
  
  
  Changelog:
  
  Version 1.3.1
  - Extract content from sites using shadow DOM (Reddit now supported)
  
  Version 1.3.0
  - More formatting marks now fold away when you're not editing
  - Strikethrough support
  - Floating panel now looks consistent on every website
  - Better content extraction on more sites, including YouTube transcripts
  
  Version 1.2.1
  - Link folding: inline link URLs are now hidden until you place the cursor on the link, reducing noise on link heavy pages
  
  Version 1.2.0
  - One-click copy to clipboard mode
  - Option to exclude images from the output
  - Better content extraction across more websites
  
  Version 1.1.0
  - Added theme setting: dark, light or system
  - Added open behavior setting: popup or floating panel
  - Added source info setting: include page title, URL, author and date at the top of the output
  - Added More menu with Re-run, Download and Settings
  - Improved code block for better readability
  - Fixed link contrast in light mode
  - Fixed tables missing from some converted pages
  
  Version 1.0.1
  - Cleaner Markdown output across more websites.
  - Improved reliability for complex pages.
  - Full page conversion is now the standard for a simpler, more predictable experience.

Permissions & access

Permissions

activeTabscriptingstorageclipboardWriteidentity

Host access

https://readwise.io/*, https://api.notion.com/*, https://api.plainmarkdown.com/*, https://openrouter.ai/*

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