When you paste a link into a chat with an AI tool, the tool usually fetches the page and has to dig the article out of everything around it: menus, cookie banners, scripts, footers and ads. Much of what it reads is not the content you meant.
Markdown is plain text with a few marks for structure. A heading is a line that starts with #, a list item starts with -, a link is [text](url). It keeps what matters for reading:
- headings, so the outline of the document survives;
- lists and tables, so steps and figures stay in order;
- links, so sources can still be followed;
- code blocks, so code is not reflowed into prose.
What fyi.md does
fyi.md takes a web page, a PDF, an image or pasted text and turns it into clean Markdown. Every result gets its own link, so you can share one URL instead of a file. The same document is also available as raw Markdown by adding .md to the link, and as JSON by adding .json.
When it helps
- Feeding a document to an assistant. Give it the
.mdlink and it reads the content directly. - Sharing a long article. The reader page is free of the original site's clutter.
- Keeping notes. Markdown opens in any text editor and pastes cleanly into most note apps.
Try it on the home page: paste a link or drop a file.