The web is noisy. Your notes shouldn’t be.

DownMark shows up with a blunt promise: click once and get a real Markdown file, not a Frankenstein copy-paste.

It’s a macOS app with Safari and Chrome extensions that pulls the main content out of a page and writes it as a tidy .md you can drop into Obsidian, Notion, VS Code, or any folder-based setup.

Here’s the deal: most “web to markdown” tools fail where it hurts - long articles, docs with code blocks, weird layouts, and image-heavy posts. DownMark aims at the boring problem that burns hours: keeping your knowledge base clean.

What it actually does

DownMark converts web pages into Markdown while keeping structure intact: headings stay headings, lists stay lists, links don’t die, and code blocks don’t melt into plain text.

It also downloads images, so your saved note doesn’t turn into a graveyard of hotlinks six months later.

If you read a lot of non-English content, there’s a nice touch: East Asian text annotation support, built for pages where spacing and punctuation rules don’t match English-centric scrapers.

Privacy isn’t a feature. It’s the default.

No accounts. No logins. No “sync”. DownMark processes content on your device. That matters if you clip client docs, paywalled research, internal dashboards, or anything you don’t want floating around on somebody else’s box.

And yes - pages that require login still work, as long as you’re already logged in inside your browser.

Built for people who hoard useful stuff

Researchers, writers, and devs don’t need another read-later app. They need source material they can search, quote, and ship.

DownMark fits a simple workflow:

Clip a page → get a clean .md
File it with your notes
Keep moving

But there’s a catch: it’s macOS-only, and the site is clear about it. No iOS version planned due to Safari extension limits.

DownMark lives at wanyi.dev and ships via the App Store plus the Chrome Web Store. If your notes are messy because the web is messy, this is the broom.

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