alternatives.md

Alternatives to Stardown

I am not affiliated with any of the alternatives below unless otherwise noted and have not tried all of them; use them at your own risk.

Copy markdown links for pages without installing anything

You can use this bookmarklet I made:

javascript: navigator.clipboard.writeText('[' + document.title + '](' + location.href + ')');

Integrate directly with an editor

• Some editors like Obsidian try to convert pasted HTML, but the result often has formatting errors and important parts missing. Stardown's output is often significantly better because it can see more than just what's in the clipboard, and because its HTML converter is not a low-priority side feature. Many popular markdown editors including GitHub don't convert to markdown at all.
• Obsidian Clipper
• Notion Web Clipper
• Evernote Web Clipper
• Joplin web clipper
• SiYuan web clipper
• Roam Highlighter
• wallabag (maybe with Frigoligo)
• Hoarder
• MarkDownload was developed by an Obsidian community moderator.
• Omnivore can save content in a variety of formats.
• Readwise can sync highlights from websites, Kindles, iBooks, and more.
• Chrome's page downloader
• Zotero is one of the best tools for saving and organizing research articles and citations.
• mymind
• Slash
• HTML to React & Figma by Magic Patterns
• Send To Logseq is a browser extension that saves web pages to Logseq.
• github.com/jsartelle/vscode-web-clipper is a VS Code extension.
• github.com/webclipper/web-clipper can integrate directly with Obsidian, Notion, OneNote, Bear, Yuque, Joplin, and more.

Obsidian plugins

• Slurp saves webpages directly to Obsidian.
• Obsidian-NetClip lets you browse the web from within Obsidian, and save webpages as markdown files from there.
• import-github-readme downloads GitHub readme files directly into Obsidian.

Bookmarks managers

• Pocket
• Raindrop.io
• linkding
• Linkwarden
• Shiori
• Shaarli
• LinkAce

Mobile-only

• obsidian-markdownr is an Android app that converts a URL to markdown to share into your favorite notes app.

Convert between markup languages

• Pandoc offers a command-line tool and a Haskell library that can convert between almost any two markup languages.
• MarkItDown is a Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
• Docling is another Python tool that can convert many file types to markdown.
• Marker converts PDF to markdown, optionally using OCRmyPDF.
• MinerU converts PDF to markdown or JSON, optionally using PaddleOCR.
• pdf-to-markdown has online and downloadable versions.

Scrape websites

• Cobalt makes it easy to download photos, gifs, videos, and audio.
• Firecrawl has an API, SDKs (for Python, Node, Go, and Rust), and various integrations.
• Crawl4AI is a Python library.
• HTML-to-Markdown a REST API, command line tool, and Go library.
• UrlToMarkdown.com
• RedditToMarkdown export reddit posts to markdown.
• Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner.
• you-get is a tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web.
• Reader-LM is small language models that convert HTML to markdown.
• Epublifier converts some webnovels to epub format.
• FanFicFare is a tool for making eBooks from stories on fanfiction and other websites.

Paste structured data

• obsidian-ReadItLater is an Obsidian plugin that creates notes with specific structures from clipboard content based on where it was copied from.
• Advanced Paste is a Windows-only PowerToys feature made by Microsoft that converts clipboard content to other markup languages like markdown or JSON.

Copy web page links in other markup languages besides markdown

• url2clipboard supports HTML, Markdown, BBCode, Textile, AsciiDoc, MediaWiki, Jira, reStructuredText, LaTeX, Org Mode, and text.
• TabCopy might only be on the Chrome Web Store, but supports many markup languages including HTML, Markdown, BBCode, CSV, and JSON, and lets you create custom link formats.