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

Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown(marph91.github.io)

35 points by CTOSian 51 days ago | 9 comments

Pandoc?

analog_daddy 50 days ago | |

My first thought as well! Even glancing through their website I don’t see an FAQ section or even a section just answering what value addition it brings over pandoc?

marphux 49 days ago | | |

Jimmy uses Pandoc as backend. It is primarily meant for converting exports/backups from note-taking apps, like for example a "takeout.zip" from Google Keep. Supporting all formats that Pandoc itself supports is a nice side effect.

I will probably add a section how Jimmy compares to Pandoc, markitdown, obsidian-importer and others, though.

ed_mercer 50 days ago |

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

SoMomentary 50 days ago | |

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.

dwroberts 50 days ago | |

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

ed_mercer 50 days ago | | |

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

virajk_31 50 days ago | |

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