# Automatically convert a Pluto Cell to markdown

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**Category:** Pluto\
**Tags:** markdown\
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I don’t think it’s completely out of scope - Fons started a discussion on experimental control this spring:

> **[Use Pluto to control physical systems · fonsp/Pluto.jl · Discussion #958](https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/discussions/958)**
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> We are very interested to learn how Pluto can be used to control physical systems, and we would like to hear your ideas on how Pluto can be improved to better support this use case! Why? Controllin...

There’s some discussion of converting cells to Markdown here:

> [@Markdown cells in Pluto](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/markdown-cells-in-pluto/60948):
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> Hello! I think this could be a nice feature: be able to make some cells md cells. The idea is the following: Click to button next to the “fold” button Then the code is wrapped by md"""\<your code\>""", as with Ctrl-M. [image] Extra feature: hide md""" and """ from the code and highlight as markdown. This could apply for Ctrl-M too. UPDATE: I’m at this point [https://github.com/i-apellaniz/Pluto.jl/tree/markdown-toggle](https://github.com/i-apellaniz/Pluto.jl/tree/markdown-toggle) at the moment.

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