Paste a plain-text email and get Markdown

Turn a simple unfolded email header block and plain-text body into a Markdown note.

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ToolEmail to Markdown
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How it works

Before the first blank row, unfurled Name: value lines become metadata; Subject becomes the H1 and other fields form a table. In the body, four-space indentation becomes a blockquote and convenience patterns link HTTP(S) URLs and simple email-shaped tokens.

  • Without a recognized header block, the source is returned unchanged instead of guessing a body boundary.
  • Subject is kept outside the table because it serves as the document heading.

Worked example

Email with links and addresses
Convert an email with headers, a URL, and an email address to Markdown
Input
											From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Q1 Sprint Planning
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0500

Hi Bob,

The sprint backlog is ready at https://example.com/board/q1

Please review and reach out to me or [email protected] with questions.

Best,
Alice
Output
												# Q1 Sprint Planning

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| **From** | [email protected] |
| **To** | [email protected] |
| **Date** | Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0500 |

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Hi Bob,

The sprint backlog is ready at [https://example.com/board/q1](https://example.com/board/q1)

Please review and reach out to me or [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) with questions.

Best,
Alice

When to use this

Support mail becomes incident notes, mailing-list posts enter repositories, and project updates preserve selected headers above their body.

Edge cases

  • An RFC 5322 folded header is not unfolded and its continuation can enter the body output.
  • A pipe in a header value is not escaped and can open another Markdown table cell.
  • Sentence punctuation after a URL can be absorbed because the matcher is not a full URI parser.

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