Features

Docs to Markdown Pro offers a robust set of features to streamline your document conversion workflow.

Here are the supported features.

Supported Google Docs Elements

• Headings - All heading levels, Title element converts to H1, and demoting headings to one level option
• Table of Contents - Google Docs native Table of Contents converts to the Markdown Table of contents
• Elements - Paragraphs, lists, inline code(specified in monospace fonts or within the codefence), links, images
• Text Formatting - Bold, Italic, Strikethrough and any combination of these such as Bold and italic text
• Images - Images will be zipped and the path is automatically updated in the output Markdown or HTML format
• Tables - Tables will convert to Markdown format or HTML format as the selected output
• Code blocks - Code blocks wrapped inside the code fence ``` or the code available in the Monospace font
• Code block language specification - The language specified in the beginning of the code block with the lang:langname. Example, add lang:javascript after the ``` code fence. This will be automatically added in the Markdown code block.
• Smart Quotes - Smart quotes in code blocks will convert to straight quotes. In other elements, smart quotes are preserved
• Footnotes - Footnotes convert into Markdown format Footnotes

If you need any other elements to be supported, please contact support.

Google Docs to Markdown or HTML Conversion

• Auto Conversion - Converts the Google Docs to Markdown upon launching the add on. You do not need to click the button explicitly to initiate the conversion.

• Bulk conversion - Converts a list of Google Docs into Markdown format.

• Robust Image handling - Allows you to customize how the images in the Google Docs must be handled while converting the Document to Markdown or HTML format.

Git Export

Docs to Markdown Pro facilitates a Docs as Code approach by enabling one-click export of your Google Docs as Markdown files directly to GitHub or GitLab repositories.

This streamlines your workflow by helping in:

• Ease of Work - All the images are committed into the specified Git folder and the image paths are automatically adapted in the Markdown file.
• Static site generation - You can add Markdown content into the Git Repos to generate static sites. The FrontMatter necessary for the Static site generators are automatically populated while committing to Git.
• Version control- Git tracks changes to your content, allowing easy rollback and collaboration.

Usability Features

• Accessibility Checks: Ensure your content is inclusive and SEO-friendly with checks for missing titles, proper heading levels, and image alt text.
• Reusable Blocks: Save time and maintain consistency by creating reusable text and code blocks for frequent insertion within your documents.
• Customized Google Drive Folder ID - You can specify the Google Drive folder into which the output files must be uploaded.
• Automatic image caption generation using AI - You can optionally enable a feature to generated image captions using AI. It helps in generating the Alt Text for the images that improves the SEO of your content.

Markdown or HTML to Google Docs

Supports single or bulk conversion of the Markdown text or the HTML text into Google Docs