Paste a bulleted or numbered list and merge it into one flowing, properly punctuated paragraph, comma-and-joined or split into separate sentences.
Emails, reports and cover letters often read better as sentences than as a stack of bullets.
Commas, the final and, capitalization and end punctuation are all handled for you.
Choose a single flowing clause list or keep each item as its own short sentence.
The converter first strips whatever marker starts each line — a hyphen, asterisk, bullet character, or a number followed by a period or closing parenthesis — so "- Pack a jacket" and "3) Pack a jacket" both reduce to the same clean item text. In comma-and mode, every item after the first is lowercased at the start, since it's now the middle of a sentence rather than the top of a bullet, then the items are joined with commas and a final "and" before the last one, following the same Oxford-comma pattern you'd use if you said the list out loud: "pack a jacket, book the taxi, and confirm the hotel." In separate-sentences mode, each item instead keeps its own capital letter and gets its own terminal period, so the list becomes a short run of standalone sentences rather than one long clause. Either way, the very first letter of the output is always capitalized and a closing period, question mark or exclamation point is added automatically if the text doesn't already end with one, so you never have to clean up the result by hand before pasting it into an email or document.
Mixes of hyphens, bullets and numbered markers are all recognized in the same list.
Lowercasing, commas and the final and are applied automatically in comma mode.
Capitalization and a terminal period are guaranteed on every result.
It looks at the start of every line for a hyphen, asterisk, bullet character, or a number followed by a period or closing parenthesis, such as 1. or 2), and strips that marker before merging the remaining text.
Comma-and-join lowercases each item after the first and joins them into one clause list with commas and a final and, like a sentence you'd say out loud. Separate sentences instead punctuates each item on its own and joins them with a space, keeping them as distinct sentences.
Yes. The first letter of the paragraph is always capitalized and a period is added at the end if the text doesn't already end with a period, question mark or exclamation point.
Hyphen, asterisk and bullet markers such as -, * and •, plus numbered markers like 1., 2), and 3 followed by a period or parenthesis, in any consistent or mixed combination.
No. Conversion happens entirely in your browser with plain JavaScript, and nothing you paste is ever sent to a server.
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