I am moving my blog post formatting code over to Markdown and found an incredibly useful HTML to Markdown converter by Dom Christie. It allows me to take HTML, for example:
<h2>;A great list of websites:</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href = "">Semifluid.com</a></li>
<li><a href = "https://uni-giessen.academia.edu/StevenACholewiak">Steven Cholewiak's Academia.edu profile</a></li>
<li><a href = "https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven_Cholewiak">Steven Cholewiak's ResearchGate.com profile</a></li>
</ul>
And easily convert it to markdown:
## A great list of websites:
* [Semifluid.com]()
* [Steven Cholewiak's Academia.edu profile](https://uni-giessen.academia.edu/StevenACholewiak)
* [Steven Cholewiak's ResearchGate.com profile](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven_Cholewiak)
The code can be found on GitHub at to-markdown and Dom has a live demo available too.