v0.1.0New: comments in the margin

Your ideas,
in a single stroke.

Sumi.md is a block editor for Markdown, beautiful and simple. Your documents stay real .md files, on your disk. Yours.

Simple, really.

Type / and pick what you want to write. No syntax to remember, no settings to learn: the interface steps aside for your words.

Airy, always.

A comfortable reading width, careful typography, room to think. Light or dark themes, every colour of them yours to tune.

Precise, to the character.

Sumi.md rewrites only the blocks you edit. A file you did not touch stays identical, byte for byte.

Found nowhere else

Comment in the margin. The text stays clean.

Select a passage, open a thread, reply, just like in a word processor. But comments live beside the document, never inside it: your Markdown stays intact, and each thread finds its passage again when the text changes.

  • Anchored to a passage or a whole block
  • Threads, with author and date
  • No markup added to the .md
  • Passage gone: flagged, not lost

Everything you need. Nothing more.

The comfort of a block editor, the freedom of a plain text file.

Type /

Headings, tasks, tables, highlighted code, maths, Mermaid diagrams, callouts. Each block moves by its handle and turns into another.

Merged block by block

Git, a sync service or another editor changed the file? Sumi.md merges, and shows conflicts side by side.

Source Mode

Ctrl+/ and the raw Markdown appears. Once more, and the blocks are back.

Snapshots

Go back in a document’s history and restore the version you need.

Tidy images

Paste an image: it joins its document’s folder, and follows it everywhere.

Search

Ctrl+P to open, Ctrl+Shift+F to search everything, with filters on tags and links.

Templates

Your document outlines, with the title, date and author filled in for you.

Export

A document as standalone HTML or PDF, ready to share.

Your files. For real.

No account, no server, no house format. A folder, .md files, their images beside them. Sync them with the tool you like, or not at all. And if one day you leave, your notes leave with you.

  • No account
  • Open format
  • Git friendly
  • Readable on GitHub and GitLab
Documents / Notebooks
Notebooks/
├── writing-workshop.md
├── reading.md
├── loose-ideas.md
├── projects/
│   ├── website.md
│   └── exhibition.md
└── assets/
    └── exhibition.assets/
        └── poster.png

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