Why I built a mind-mapping tool where Markdown is the actual file format

<p>Hey, me again. Posted MerMark Editor here a while back — first<br /> post got 120+ GitHub stars and the binaries crossed 7 000<br /> downloads, so thanks to everyone who tried

<h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Markify is a free native Markdown editor for macOS 26. It turns notes, specifications and agent reports into a clean page you can read and edit, while

<p>I started with a romantic idea: build the entire product in Rust, with Rust‑first tools, end to end.<br /> I still like that idea philosophically. In practice, it was too much

<p>I have a confession: I'm a productivity app addict.</p> <p>Notion, Todoist, Things, TickTick, Bear, Obsidian — I've tried them all. And every single one failed me in the same

<p>Many technical materials worth reading and saving no longer live only in blogs or web pages. They are published on GitHub as Markdown: project notes, tutorials, product docs,

<p>Most productivity apps are built by teams of 20, funded by millions in venture capital, and still manage to feel like they were designed by a committee that's never actually

<p>Most Markdown editors today assume cloud sync, Electron, or heavy installations.</p> <p>I wanted something simpler.</p> <p><a class="article-body-image-wrapper"

<p>A mind map editor needs structured data: node IDs, parent IDs, sibling order and source references. That does not mean the language model needs to generate the editor's entire