Writing and organizing guides.
Writing and finding notes in plain Markdown: the syntax, tables, daily notes and tasks, converting PDFs and web pages, search by meaning, and getting an earlier version back.
- How to convert PDF and Word to markdown: six tools tested
- How to convert PDF to markdown and Word docx to markdown, with real output from pandoc, MarkItDown, Docling, Marker, MinerU and PyMuPDF4LLM on the same files.
- Daily notes and todo lists in plain markdown
- Daily notes in markdown: date-based file names, a short daily note template, shell shortcuts, and a markdown todo list you can search across every file.
- Markdown table syntax: how to make a table in Markdown
- Markdown table syntax with copyable examples: pipes, the separator row, alignment, escaped pipes, line breaks in cells, and where tables render.
- How to save a web page as markdown
- How to save a web page as markdown with a browser extension, trafilatura, pandoc or a reader service, with tested commands and what each tool gets wrong.
- Semantic search for your notes, offline and without the cloud
- How to run semantic search for notes offline with a local embedding model in Jotura, Obsidian, Joplin or the command line, plus a test that proves it.
- Version history for markdown notes: recover lost edits and files
- Version history for markdown notes: how long git, editors, Jotura, Obsidian and cloud drives keep versions, and how to undo an overwrite, delete or agent edit.
- Wikilinks, callouts and extended markdown syntax, explained
- Wikilinks, callouts and extended markdown syntax explained: how a wikilink finds its note, wikilinks vs markdown links, embeds, and where each one renders.