This one is a bit unusual: it looks like it allows you to convert a .docx file into a plain text file with markdown.

http://www.writage.com/

I don't fully get it, as my needs are normally to travel the opposite way, i.e. write documents in markdown (e.g. in WriteMonkey), and then convert them into Word docs. But it might be useful for some scenarios.

And they want to charge for it.

You can already do this and much more for free with Pandoc

pandoc -s example30.docx -t markdown -o example35.md

http://pandoc.org/demos.html

Hi! Actually Writage allows you to open and edit Markdown documents in Word , so you could write documents in Markdown and save files as .md files as well.

Elena wrote:

Hi! Actually Writage allows you to open and edit Markdown documents in
Word , so you could write documents in Markdown and save files as .md
files as well.

Elena, thanks for the clarification, I get it now. So the plugin turns Word into a GUI for Markdown, for people who don't want to or don't know how to use Markdown in plain text form, right?

I was just confused initially as the reason I use Markdown is to get away from Word :) But I can see that you are targeting a different user base.

Dr Andus, you're absolutely right! Writage turns Word into your Markdown editor.

The main target group is everyone who likes to start writing well-structured documents and prefer to use Word as a text editor or don't have time or don't want to become familiar with Markdown syntax.

Now that is a very entertaining inversion of the usual scenario. One has to admire the entrepreneurial niche thinking! ;-)