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Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown
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throwaway81523
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Pandoc?
analog_daddy
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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
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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
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Why do I need this when I can use a coding agent to do it for me?
SoMomentary
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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.