We all had a laugh when we learnt that Accenture employees use AI agents to convert PDFs to Markdown. But just now, I had to get a Slack AI agent to convert a Canvas to Markdown, so I can pass it to another agent. It’s clear we need Markdown export support across the board now. The agents demand it.
It should be easy for Slack to add this. Canvas’s are effectively block-based documents that are Markdown compatible. Heck, you type hashes for headings and backticks for code runs in the editor.
Oh, and BTW: it frickin’ worked! The agent produced a pretty decent Markdown export of the Canvas. We just need Salesforce to implement a proper way to do this, without spending tokens.