Free prose-to-list tool

Paragraph to Bullet List Converter

Paste a paragraph of prose and split it into clean bullet points, by sentence or by finer clause, ready to copy as plain text or Markdown.

Your paragraph

Bullet list

Your bullet list will appear here.

Why split a paragraph into bullets

Easier to scan

Dense prose becomes a skimmable list for slides, docs or a quick summary.

Two granularities

Sentence mode keeps ideas whole; clause mode breaks them down further.

Ready for anywhere

Copy real plain text bullets or Markdown-safe bullets for docs and READMEs.

How to convert a paragraph to bullets

  1. Paste your paragraphDrop in any block of prose text.
  2. Choose a split modeBy sentence for whole ideas, by clause for finer bullets.
  3. Copy the listCopy as plain text or as Markdown-safe bullets.

About sentence and clause splitting

By-sentence mode looks for a period, question mark or exclamation point that's followed by a space and then a capital letter, digit or opening quote — the pattern a new sentence typically starts with — and treats everything up to that point as one bullet. This keeps abbreviations and decimal numbers from being chopped up incorrectly in most everyday writing. By-clause mode runs the same sentence split first, then goes a step further and breaks each sentence again at every comma and semicolon, which is useful when a single sentence packs in several distinct ideas joined by connectors like "and" or "which" — each clause becomes its own short bullet instead of one long line. Neither mode rewrites your wording: the only changes made are capitalizing the first letter of each bullet and trimming stray whitespace, so the list stays faithful to what you wrote. The plain text copy gives you simple dash-prefixed lines you can paste into an email or chat, while the Markdown copy escapes characters like asterisks, underscores, backticks and square brackets so the same list renders cleanly wherever Markdown is interpreted, such as a README or a Notion page, instead of accidentally triggering bold, italic or link formatting.

Sentence-aware

Splits at real sentence boundaries, not just every period.

Optional clause mode

Breaks sentences further at commas and semicolons on demand.

Markdown-safe export

Special characters are escaped so bullets render correctly, not as formatting.

Paragraph to bullet list FAQ

How does the paragraph to bullet list converter split sentences?

It detects sentence boundaries at periods, question marks and exclamation points followed by a space and a capital letter or number, then treats each resulting sentence as one bullet.

What does clause mode add on top of sentence mode?

Clause mode first splits your paragraph into sentences the same way, then further splits each sentence on commas and semicolons, producing more, shorter bullet points for finer-grained lists.

What's the difference between the plain text and Markdown copy buttons?

Both use a - prefix on each line. The Markdown copy additionally escapes characters like asterisks, underscores, backticks and brackets so the list renders correctly instead of triggering unintended Markdown formatting.

Does it change the wording of my paragraph?

No. It only splits your text at sentence or clause boundaries and capitalizes the first letter of each bullet; the wording itself is never rewritten.

Is this free and private?

Yes. The paragraph is split entirely in your browser using plain JavaScript and is never uploaded anywhere.

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