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

29 pointsposted 21 hours ago
by CTOSian

7 Comments

ed_mercer

8 hours ago

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

SoMomentary

7 hours 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

8 hours 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

6 hours ago

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

virajk_31

7 hours ago

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