Paste a note straight out of Apple Notes and get clean Markdown and HTML back, with hyperlinks preserved - the tool reads the RTF flavour of the clipboard rather than the flattened plain text. Runs entirely in your browser. Imported Claude artifact. Source: https://github.com/simonw/tools (notes-to-markdown.html, Apache-2.0).

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Details

PricingCompletely free

Security scanClean — skill and frontend scanned

Source simonw/tools

Created2026-08-25

Updated2026-08-25

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System prompt (SKILL.md)

---
name: notes-to-markdown
description: Paste rich text from Apple Notes and get Markdown and HTML back, with hyperlinks preserved.
metadata:
  tags:
    - artifact-import
    - writing
  source_url: https://tools.simonwillison.net/notes-to-markdown
  github_repo_url: https://github.com/simonw/tools
---

# Notes to Markdown

An imported Claude artifact. Copy a note out of Apple Notes and paste it into
the page: the RTF that rides along on the clipboard is parsed directly, so the
formatting and - crucially - the hyperlinks survive the trip, instead of
flattening into bare text the way a plain paste does. You get Markdown and HTML
side by side, ready to copy on.

The paste is read from the clipboard's text/rtf flavour and parsed in the page.
Nothing is uploaded, no model is called, and nothing is metered.

Release files (files)

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