Fancy markdown / document editor -

[joepio]

Must-have Features

• Add Commit operations for text insertions (real-time collaborative sync)
  • Implement in JS
  • Implement in Rust (server)
  • Make it compatible with codemirror
• Render Atomic Resources as inline components. Use [[ syntax like Obsidian.
• Allow markdown-like syntax to do formatting (e.g. ## Heading 2) and preview the style

Cool ideas

• Linkifier
• Mentions
• Custom components
• Slash commands? Not present in Obsidian

Approaches

Codemirror + Markdown

• Use codemirror, because:
  • It's reliable, popular, battle-tested
  • Is plaintext
  • Allows for collaboration
• Use markdown because
  • It's simple to read and understand
  • It is highly interoperable

TipTap

• Has nice notion-style editor
• No native markdown support, but import / export possible using plugin
• Built on Prosemirror
• Can sync, but unclear how / if this can be made to comply with Commits

Milkdown

• Markdown first

BlockNote

• Powered by prosemirror and TipTap, so more batteries-included than TipTap / Prosemirror.
• Great notion-like UX with slash menu, d&d, live collab
• Can render to markdown (or HTML of course) but markdown is considered lossy.
• Works with Yjs, allows CRDT Consider using yjs / y-crdt for document-related commits #720
• Built in React, which makes things easy for us!
• Even has cool comments