fabioc-aloha Md To Txt
Strip all Markdown formatting and produce clean plain text. Useful for clipboard export, email body fallback, accessibility, and as input to text analysis tools.
Quick Start
node skills/md-to-txt/scripts/md-to-txt.cjs source.md output.txt
Options
| Flag | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|
--wrap N |
80 | Line wrap width (0 = no wrap) |
--strip-frontmatter |
off | Remove YAML frontmatter |
--strip-mermaid |
off | Replace Mermaid blocks with [diagram] |
--strip-images |
off | Replace image refs with alt text |
--no-replace-em-dashes |
em-dashes ARE replaced for txt | Keep — literal |
--strip-decorative-rules |
HRs preserved for txt | Strip decorative --- lines |
Format-Aware Defaults
Plain text gets:
- Em-dash →
,ON. AI-tell em-dashes look bad in monospace fonts. - Decorative HR strip OFF. Pandoc renders
---as visible plain-text dividers, which are usually intentional in txt output.
Override via flags above.
What gets stripped
- Bold, italic, strikethrough markers
- Inline code backticks
- Link URLs (alt text preserved)
- Heading
#markers - Bullet/list markers (indentation preserved)
Related
- Markdown linting — pre-flight the source with the project's linter or the
lint-clean-markdownskill - md-to-word — for formatted output
Would Revise If
Revisit this skill by 2026-08-26 (90 days) or sooner if any of the following fires: pandoc upstream changes plain-text output in a way that breaks the documented "stripped" list; the heuristic for indentation preservation produces wrong output on a real source the user converts; or a heir needs a stripped-but-not-plain output (e.g., RTF, SRT) that this skill doesn't cover — split into a sibling skill instead.