mdNotch v0.2.0

macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon

Drop it on the notch.
Paste it as Markdown.

mdNotch turns PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and seven other formats into Markdown — on your clipboard and saved as a .md next to the original. Copied rich text converts too, in one keystroke, without ever touching the disk. No terminal, no Python, not a single network call.

Download for macOS Source on GitHub

mdNotch.dmg · 81 MB · signed & notarized

Nothing on screen until a file comes near the top edge.

How it works

  1. 01

    Drag

    Pull any document toward the top of your screen. The drop zone opens under the notch before your cursor gets there.

  2. 02

    Drop

    The rim lights up while the conversion runs — locally, in a bundled binary, with no request leaving the machine.

  3. 03

    Paste

    A green check says Copied. The Markdown is on your clipboard and a .md file sits next to the original.

New in 0.2.0

Rich text, without the file.

Copy a formatted passage from a browser, a Word document or an email, and convert the clipboard in place — the Markdown replaces what you copied. Nothing is written to disk, because there is no source file to sit next to. Plain text is handed back untouched with a Copied as-is: it was already its own Markdown.

Eleven formats

Everything you'd paste into a chat.

A .zip is walked recursively and comes back as one concatenated .md. Anything outside this list is refused up front with a plain Unsupported format — images and audio are deliberately out, they'd need an API key or a second binary.

What it does

Offline, always

Zero network calls by design. Your documents never leave your Mac, so confidential files stay confidential.

Nothing to install

The converter ships frozen inside the app. No Python, no Homebrew, no command line — drag the .app out of the DMG and you're done.

Drop the whole batch

Several files at once: one .md per file, plus a single clipboard payload separated by # filename. One broken file fails alone — the rest still convert.

Invisible at rest

No Dock icon, no window, not one stolen pixel. A menu-bar item holds Settings, Launch at login and Quit; a gear appears when you hover the notch.

You pick where it lands

Next to the source file by default, or one fixed folder for everything. A name clash gets a -1 suffix — never an overwrite, never a dialog in the middle of your gesture.

Put the zone where you want

The notch is only a visual anchor — on an iMac, a Mac mini or an external display the zone drops from the top center instead. And if another app already owns your notch, park it in any of the four screen corners.

Two seconds instead of a toolchain.

Drag the app out of the DMG into Applications, and the next document you drag upward comes back as Markdown.

Download mdNotch

v0.2.0 · mdNotch.dmg · 81 MB · Apple Silicon