v0.6.0New: 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.

Spaces

Work on one side, personal on the other. Each Space gathers its folders and keeps its tabs: switch with a click or Ctrl+1, and pick up exactly where you left off.

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.

Tab Groups

Documents from several folders open side by side: their tabs gather by folder, and fold away together.

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