alt.hn

6/28/2026 at 9:09:32 PM

Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown

 https://marph91.github.io/jimmy/

by CTOSian

6/29/2026 at 10:05:17 AM

Why do I need this when I can use a coding agent to do it for me?

by ed_mercer

6/29/2026 at 11:08:54 AM

You could have your Coding agent use this to do it for you! Really though it's about using the right tool for the job, and this seems like a better choice to use a tool like this so you don't have your agent burn tons of tokens imperfectly working through all your documents at a slower pace.

Personally I'll be giving this a whirl as part of my note distillation process. I end up with hundreds of pages of PDFs and docx files that I'm sure would be easy to convert with a dedicated tool.

by SoMomentary

6/29/2026 at 10:45:03 AM

Why would you make a non-deterministic agent do a task like this if an exact deterministic command line tool exists for it?

by dwroberts

6/29/2026 at 12:52:01 PM

so I don't bloat my system with random software that require maintenance and are a potential attack vector?

by ed_mercer

6/29/2026 at 11:26:25 AM

why would you to waste tokens when you already have open source options...

by virajk_31

6/29/2026 at 3:06:49 PM

Pandoc?

by throwaway81523