The author experimented with feeding a month's worth of daily journal entries (originally in Obsidian) into NotebookLM. The AI was able to analyze the entries, summarize personal growth, and allow for conversational querying of the journal data, providing insights and context with citations to the original entries.
Render any git repo into a single static HTML page for humans or LLMs. Flatten any GitHub repository into a single, searchable HTML page with syntax highlighting, markdown rendering, and a clean sidebar navigation.
Simon Willison discusses Toad, a new terminal coding assistant built by Will McGugan using Textual. It aims to improve upon existing tools like Claude Code and Gemini CLI by avoiding flicker and offering better interaction with terminal output. Toad is currently in private preview, available through GitHub sponsorship.
MarkItDown is an open-source Python utility that simplifies converting diverse file formats into Markdown, designed to prepare data for LLMs and RAG systems. It handles various file types, preserves document structure, and integrates with LLMs for tasks like image description.
This article details a method for converting PDFs to Markdown using a local LLM (Gemma 3 via Ollama), focusing on privacy and efficiency. It involves rendering PDF pages as images and then using the LLM for content extraction, even from scanned PDFs.
Mods is a tool to add AI to your command line and pipelines, using Large Language Models to format command output in Markdown, JSON, and other text-based formats.
ReaderLM-v2 is a 1.5B parameter language model developed by Jina AI, designed for converting raw HTML into clean markdown and JSON with high accuracy and improved handling of longer contexts. It supports multilingual text in 29 languages and offers advanced features such as direct HTML-to-JSON extraction. The model improves upon its predecessor by addressing issues like repetition in long sequences and enhancing markdown syntax generation.
ReaderLM-v2 is a 1.5B parameter language model designed to convert raw HTML into beautifully formatted markdown or JSON. It supports multilingual input and offers improved longer context handling, stability, and advanced markdown generation capabilities.
MarkItDown is a utility for converting various files to Markdown, including PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Images, Audio, HTML, text-based formats, and ZIP files.
Microsoft has open-sourced MarkItDown, a state-of-the-art application designed to convert various file types into Markdown format for seamless integration, collaboration, and accessibility. The tool supports multiple file formats, including PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, images, audio, HTML, text-based formats, and ZIP files, making it a versatile utility for users across different domains.
