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Markdown is the native language of AI
Why a PDF burdens your AI more than the same text in Markdown, and two small habits that instantly improve your output and your instructions.
When I ask in a workshop who has ever dragged a PDF into an AI chat, almost all hands go up. When I ask who knows what Markdown is, only a few remain. Yet that second one is probably the most underestimated piece of knowledge in working with AI.
At the bottom of this article you will find a prompt that lets you convert a document to Markdown yourself, which you can copy just like that.
What Markdown is
Markdown is plain text with a few simple characters for structure. A hash for a title. Two asterisks around a word for bold. A hyphen for a list. It is nothing more than that. You can read it in any text editor, and it still looks logical even without formatting.
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