A second pair of eyes
Broken heading levels and misaligned tables get a gentle nudge the moment they happen — not after you've shared the doc.
Most editors check nothing unless you ask. MDDock watches as you write.
Feature atlas
Everything your words need. Already here.
Writing, remembering, organizing, publishing — a complete home for your notes. Every feature on this page is real, finished, and yours today.
Writing & editing
Beautiful as you type
Headings, tables and images take shape the moment you type them. There is no preview button — you're always looking at the finished page.
Other editors make you flip between writing and preview. MDDock never asks you to.
Writing & editing
The next sentence, whispered
The AI suggests what comes next in soft grey. Tab to keep it, Esc to wave it away — your flow never breaks.
No pop-ups, no chat windows. The idea just waits behind your cursor.
Reading & themes
Thirteen reading themes
Work, Reader, Stage, Mono, Cream, Newsprint, Paperback, Night Owl — every note dresses for the occasion, one tap in Settings.
Not just light and dark. A whole wardrobe, tuned for long reading.
Office workflows
Word, Excel & PPT welcome
Drop in Office files and get clean, readable notes. Export back to Office whenever someone needs the familiar format.
Your notes stay plain text forever. Office is a destination, never a cage.
Office workflows
Notes become slides
One --- and your note turns into a slide deck. Finish writing, walk on stage.
No detour through Keynote. Export to PPTX afterwards if you must.
AI & agents
Chat with your notes
Ask “what did I conclude about rust async?” and the answer arrives with links that jump to the exact note and line.
Not a black box — every answer shows you exactly where it came from.
AI & agents
AI edits. You approve.
When the AI rewrites a note, you see every change side by side. Accept it, reject it, or roll back to any earlier version.
Nothing changes without your yes. That's a rule, not a setting.
Sync, collaboration & safety
Sync without surprises
Write offline, merge when you're back. If two devices disagree, you get a clear choice — never a silent overwrite.
Every merge is on record. Nothing ever quietly disappears.
Developer tools
The whole app, in a terminal
Manage your library over SSH, on a server with no screen at all.
Not a stripped-down shell — the real thing.
Developer tools
Your notes, in every AI
Any MCP-compatible AI tool can read and write your library directly, signed in and secure.
Your tools come to your notes — not the other way around.
The details that add up
And everything else, just as considered
The smaller features you touch a hundred times a day — grouped by where they live in your workflow.
Writing & editing
05The place you type decides how every day feels.
Never lost in long notes
A live outline follows your scroll, and every link you write quietly weaves the note into your web of ideas.
No plugins to find, nothing to set up. It's simply there.
Focus mode
Everything fades except the paragraph you're writing. Calm type, generous space, nothing else.
Focus isn't just hiding the sidebar — the typography itself quiets down.
Jump to anything
⌘P and a few letters — any note, open before you finish thinking.
Stays instant even with thousands of notes.
Peek without leaving
Hover a link and the note floats up in a card. Read it, close it, never lose your place.
No new tabs, no back button. Curiosity costs nothing.
Reading & themes
04Reading is half of writing. We sweated that half too.
Three ways to read
List for skimming, Plain for deep reading, Present for the stage. One note, three costumes.
Most editors give you a single view and call it done.
Finish one, the next is waiting
Reach the end of a note and the next unread one is already there, reading time included. Flow through a whole folder without going back.
Like an RSS reader — for your own ideas.
Read later, properly
Saved articles wait patiently in a queue. Finish one, and it files itself into your library.
Unlike read-later apps, what you finish keeps feeding your knowledge base.
Reading time that gets Chinese
“About 5 minutes” is computed properly for mixed Chinese-English text — not guessed from English word counts.
A small thing no checklist mentions. You feel it every day.
Office workflows
03Markdown is the source; Office formats are just delivery.
Tables that do math
Type =SUM(Above) in a plain-text table and it just computes — a tiny spreadsheet living inside your note.
No database, no plugin. Still just text in a file.
Never face a blank page
Meeting notes, PRDs, blog posts, retros — pick a scenario and start from a thoughtful draft.
And the AI picks up right where the template leaves off.
One file, many forms
A letter, a spreadsheet and slides can live in a single document, each dressed its own way.
Not attachments — three dialects inside one plain-text file.
AI & agents
04AI lives on your own files, not in someone else's database.
It remembers for you
A passing thought from three weeks ago resurfaces the moment it matters again.
The memory lives on your machine — it even works offline.
Tidied while you're away
When you're not looking, MDDock quietly heals broken links and merges duplicate ideas.
You come back to a cleaner library — not a to-do list of robot chores.
Every AI call, itemized
Tokens and cost, line by line, in a dashboard you can actually read.
Others hide AI usage in a black box. We hand you the receipt.
Friends with your AI tools
Claude Code, Cursor and other AI tools can read and write the very same notes you do.
No lock-in. Swap AI tools freely — your notes never move.
Capture & migration
05Every road in is paved. No excuses left.
Save the web in one click
Any article becomes a clean note in your library — the text, the author, the source, all in place.
Not a bookmark graveyard: everything you save stays searchable and quotable.
Moving in takes minutes
Coming from Obsidian, Typora, Bear, Joplin or Logseq? There's a step-by-step guide for each.
Since everything is already plain text, “migrating” is mostly just opening your old folder.
A new note in one keystroke
Press + and start typing — the title names itself inline, just like in Finder. Templates are one click further.
No dialogs, no “where do I save this”. Blank page to first word in a second.
Open anything
PDFs, images, Office files, code — everything in your library opens right in place, no other app needed.
Your folders stop being a mixed bag you can't look inside.
Right there in Finder
Right-click any file on your Mac and open it in MDDock. It feels like it shipped with the system.
Default .md app, Dock menu, menu bar — a proper Mac citizen.
Domain knowledge packs
01Knowledge someone else organized, installed into your library like an app.
Install knowledge like apps
A field guide someone else curated lands in your library in one click — and the AI immediately speaks that domain.
Knowledge, packaged like software. That's new.
Sync, collaboration & safety
05The cloud is operated by us; the keys stay with you.
Share with one link
Turn any note into a link — teammates open it and can jump straight in to collaborate. Revoke it any time.
No exporting, no attachments, no “which version is this”.
One phrase saves everything
Keep a single recovery phrase safe, and losing every device still doesn't lose your notes.
We run the cloud, but we don't hold your key. That's design, not a promise.
Every version, forever
Every save of every note can be brought back — return to any moment.
Nothing to remember to turn on.
Use any editor you like
Open your notes in VS Code, Vim, anything. MDDock notices — and merges instead of overwriting.
They're your files. We just take good care of them.
A receipt for everything
Every AI edit, every sync, every share — one timeline you can check.
Trust shouldn't be “believe us”. It should be “see for yourself”.
Every platform, polished
05Sweating the small stuff is the real difference.
Your notes, in your pocket
Look things up, capture ideas on the go, clear your reading queue — the same library as your Mac.
A real App Store app, not a wrapped web page.
Windows, done properly
Shortcuts, paths, installer — everything feels native, not ported.
Our quality gates run on Mac, Windows and Linux alike: one fails, all stop.
Opens in a blink
Startup and load times are measured on every single change. If it ever gets slower, the build stops.
Fast isn't a slogan here. It's a hard gate.
Updates that explain themselves
Each update tells you what's new in plain language — not just a progress bar.
Release notes aren't optional: a release won't ship without them.
It heals itself
A broken setting or a vanished folder gets detected and repaired on its own — no blank screens, no error soup.
Software should fix its own scrapes, not show you the wound.
Developer tools
02For people who never leave the keyboard: the full set.
Your notes, scriptable
Search, convert and sync from the command line — pipe your library into any workflow.
Everything the app does, the command line can do too.
Yours. Forever.
Plain text files you can open in any app, on any computer, in fifty years. Uninstall everything — your words remain.
The foundation under it all: open formats mean nothing can ever lock you in.
Turn your documents into an AI-readable knowledge base
Try the free tools in your browser, then download the desktop app to keep everything local.