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Always open.
Barely running.

Beautiful to read. Exact on disk.
A native Markdown editor that changes only what you type.

Linux beta — get notified
Field notes.md
~/Documents/notes/
Live
Source
Read
Reading list
Field notes
Drafts
On rhythm
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Field notes

Writing tools should do one thing: get out of the way. The text on screen is the text on disk. Nothing is added, converted, or held somewhere you cannot see.

What stays the same
  • Whitespace and line endings
  • Tables you aligned by hand
  • Frontmatter, footnotes, and every character you didn't touch
142 words1 min
CleanUTF-8Markdown

The file is the document.

mote does not import, convert, or rebuild your Markdown.

Open a file. Edit it in place.
Save a diff you can trust.

Whitespace, line endings, tables, frontmatter, and everything you did not touch stay where they were.

README.md
# mote
- A lightweight Markdown editor.
+ A lossless Markdown editor.
Open a file. Edit it in place.
1 line changed · Nothing else

Three views.
The same words.

On rhythm

Good typography is invisible until you look for it. Then it is everywhere: in the measure, the leading, and the small pause before a new paragraph.

Live
Write with formatting in place.
Source
See every character on disk.
Read
See the finished document.

Switching views never creates another document. Your cursor, position, and text stay exactly where they were.

Stops when you do.

When nothing happens, mote stops drawing.

No continuous rendering. No background indexing. No web engine keeping a text file alive.

View the benchmarks →
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idle frames / 10 s
9.7 ms
keystroke to pixel, p95
211 ms
cold start, 100 KB file

Simple, yet complete.

CommonMark and GFM, tables, code, math, images, footnotes, outlines, search, focus mode, and PDF export.

Everything needed to write and read Markdown.
Nothing that turns it into another workspace.

Less, on purpose.

No account. No proprietary library. No built-in sync.
No plugins, knowledge graph, collaboration layer, or AI.

Open a file or folder and use the tools you already trust.

Git, iCloud Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, and Syncthing continue to work as they always have.

Markdown, without the rewrite.

Beautiful while you write.
Predictable when you commit.

Get notifiedSee pricing
Free during the beta. $19.99 once $24.99 at 1.0 · Linux first, macOS and Windows to follow — one licence
Up to three personal devices · No subscription
Launch price. Checkout by Paddle opens with 1.0.
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