Markdown vs plain text for LLM context — why structure wins
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Plain text throws away the structure a model could have used. Markdown keeps it, at almost no token cost — and that changes how reliably an LLM can reason over your content.
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LLMs & Markdown
LLMs & Markdown is a blog category about why structured Markdown is a better model input than flattened PDF text or a one-off JSON dump, and how conversion fits into a model workflow.