NEditor

NEditor is a local-first Markdown workbench for serious business documents: proposals, RFP responses, board papers, consulting reports, research briefs, technical docs, books, scripts, and publishable export packages.

It keeps the source readable and portable, then adds the business-document features Markdown normally lacks: outlines, includes, tables, equations, citations, AI-assisted drafting, review gates, reusable snippets, brand-aware exports, publishing packages, and release evidence.

What It Does

• Write and organize documents with Markdown, live preview, outline mode, folding, search, tabs, includes, comments, and document maps.
• Create documents with AI assistance through Docs Live, adaptive wizards, section-by-section drafting, quality checks, humanization, and agentic review packets.
• Handle business workflows with reusable company profiles, snippets, templates, RFP response tools, compliance matrices, deep research, citations, and source-document management.
• Work with data through editable Markdown tables, CSV/TSV/XLSX flows, formulas, calculation templates, SQL transforms, charts, diagrams, and local data sources.
• Export polished outputs to HTML, PDF, DOCX, PPTX, Markdown bundles, blog packages, Substack packages, LaTeX, Google Docs import packages, and EPUB.
• Package and verify releases with the ned CLI, evidence kits, local release candidates, Homebrew support, platform evidence, and signing gates.

Screenshots

Workbench	Export Readiness

Review Governance	Tables And Transforms

Try The App

For a packaged release, install the artifact for your operating system:

• macOS: .dmg, .zip, NEditor.app, or a signed Homebrew cask.
• Windows: .msi or .exe.
• Linux: .AppImage, .deb, or .rpm.

If you are looking at this repository, you are in the source tree. Build or run the app locally with the developer commands below.

Developer Quick Start

Prerequisites:

• Node.js and pnpm
• Rust stable
• Tauri 2 prerequisites for your operating system

Install and run:

pnpm install
pnpm run dev

Build the frontend:

pnpm run build

Build the desktop app and CLI:

pnpm run prepare:sidecars
pnpm tauri build

Run the most useful local checks:

pnpm run test:unit
pnpm run check:docs
pnpm run check:release-readiness

Run a local release-candidate pass:

pnpm run release:local
pnpm run check:release-candidate

CLI

Packaged builds include ned, the command-line helper for opening, creating, inspecting, validating, converting, exporting, publishing, and support diagnostics.

Common examples:

ned open proposal.md
ned new response.md --template rfp-response --title "RFP Response"
ned profile --workspace . --set companyName=Acme --set companyLegalName="Acme LLC" --set taxIdentifier=VAT-999 --set credentialsSummary="Approved supplier"
ned rfp-response buyer-rfp.pdf --output response.md --matrix-output compliance.md --outline-output proposal-outline.md --coverage-output coverage.md
ned sources --document research-report.md --query "market evidence" --provider duckduckgo
ned sources --document research-report.md --audit --output source-audit.md
ned deep-research --topic "market evidence" --provider duckduckgo --pages 10 --output research-dossier.md
ned quality board-paper.md --markdown --output quality-review.md
ned export-profiles --workspace . --save client-html --target html --layout-preset business --brand name=Client --json
ned export-profiles --workspace . --apply client-html --document board-paper.md --output-dir exports
ned read-aloud board-paper.md --engine macos-say --dry-run --json
ned read-aloud board-paper.md --engine supertonic-cli --acknowledge-model-download --model-storage ~/.cache/supertonic/models
ned convert board-paper.md --to pdf,docx,html --output-dir exports
ned readiness --json
ned support-bundle --workspace . --output support.json
ned evidence-packet --output release-evidence-return-packet.md
ned improvements --output improvement-coverage.md

Inside the app, use File -> Deploy CLI Globally to make ned available from normal terminal windows.

Example Documents

The distribution includes a showcase document that exercises the major capabilities:

• NEditor capability showcase
• Board paper
• Consulting report
• Research report
• Proposal budget

Inside the app, choose Help -> Open Capability Showcase and then Help -> Guided Demo to walk through the shipped showcase with real tables, equations, images, citations, AI provenance, review evidence, and export metadata.

Release Status

NEditor has substantial local implementation and verification coverage, but release readiness is evidence-driven. Some gates require external credentials, human sign-off, or Windows/Linux release hosts.

Useful commands:

pnpm run check:release-readiness
pnpm run collect:evidence-kit
pnpm run check:evidence-kit
ned evidence-packet --output release-evidence-return-packet.md
pnpm run check:platform-packaging
pnpm run check:release-signing
pnpm run check:homebrew
pnpm run release:homebrew -- --artifact /path/to/NEditor-0.1.0-macos.zip --output /path/to/homebrew-neditor/Casks/neditor.rb

Do not treat an unsigned local build as a public release. Signing, notarization, Homebrew publication, live Google Docs readback, live AI-provider proof, and cross-platform package execution need their own evidence.

Documentation

• User guide
• Markdown extensions
• Compiling and releasing
• Homebrew distribution
• External transforms
• Security threat model
• Architecture diagram
• Specification
• Spec completion matrix
• 100 high-impact improvements

Project Status

NEditor is under active development. The product already covers a broad document-workbench surface, but the standard for this project is stricter than "builds locally": every release claim should have current, inspectable evidence.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.