Three things we believe about the tool you use for two hours a day.
No built-in AI. No plugin marketplace. No daily-note graph view, no kanban, no calendar. Everyone else is throwing everything at you. We're making a markdown editor — and doing that one thing perfectly.
Your files live on your disk as .md, where they've always lived. No vault, no user accounts, no "sync" button. If we disappear tomorrow, your writing doesn't.
We spent six months on typography before we shipped. Fraunces for display, Newsreader for body, Geist Mono for code — all loaded, hinted, and tuned for 60-minute writing sessions.
No vaults, no kanbans, no graph views. The whole product, in three features you'll actually use every day.
Source on one side, rendered on the other. Scroll one — the other follows. Edit either — the other updates. No "preview pane" that drifts out of sync after four keystrokes.
--- title: Roadmap Q2 draft: true --- # Roadmap — Q2 2026 > **TL;DR** — ship the formatter, defer the cloud. ## Principles 1. **Local-first.** Files stay on *your* disk. 2. **Design is the moat.** 3. **No subscription.** Ever.
TL;DR — ship the formatter, defer the cloud.
Principles
Bold a word in the rich view — the markdown writes itself. Hand-type the asterisks — the rich view catches up. It's the same file, not two copies drifting apart.
PDF for clients. Word for legal. HTML for the web. Built in. No Pandoc, no command line, no "export plugin" marketplace. Ctrl+Shift+P and it's done.
Because the mouse is where design goes to die. Every operation in Markdown Pro has a keyboard binding — documented, customizable, consistent across panes.
Markdown Pro is shipping for Windows soon. Drop your name and email and we'll send the launch announcement — nothing else.
Because we'd rather do one thing perfectly than ten things adequately. Every competitor is racing to cram in AI, vaults, kanban boards, graph views. We're building the best markdown editor on earth — and nothing else. If you want an AI co-writer, there are great ones. This isn't that.
Nothing. They're plain .md files on your disk. Open them in Notepad, Vim, VS Code, whatever you've got. That's the whole point of local-first.
Bold something in the rich view, the markdown source updates instantly. Edit the markdown directly — the preview updates. Side-by-side or inline, your choice. Same document either way. No "preview" pane that drifts out of sync.
We won't name them — but look at their screenshots. Count the features. Count the panels. Count the things they're trying to be. Then look at ours. One editor, done right. That's the difference.