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Inside Kition’s Obsidian-style Markdown editor

Built on CodeMirror 6 — live preview is inline decorations, not a two-pane split. Source is what you see.

Kition Team·Mar 18, 2026·6 min read

Design principles

  • The source `.md` IS the document — no "rendered vs raw" duality
  • Decorations (bold, links, callouts) render over the source
  • Cursor on a decoration auto-reveals the underlying syntax
  • Every action has a keyboard equivalent

Fundamental difference from Notion blocks

Notion turns each paragraph into a "block" object and stores it as cloud JSON. Kition treats a doc as one text stream and saves it as `.md` on disk. Former feels app-like; latter feels file-like.

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