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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, 2026·1 min read
Design principles
- The source
.mdIS 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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