# 1943time/inkdown

Inkdown is a WYSIWYG editor and an LLM dialogue tool, fully compatible with GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec.

Repository: https://github.com/1943time/inkdown
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/inkdown
Language: TypeScript
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: docs-generator, electron, markdown, notes-app, wysiwyg, mardown-editor, slatejs, chatbot, llm
Last push: 2025-12-19T06:21:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 57/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 58, release rhythm 40, longevity 83
- inputs: {"age_days": 1163, "days_push": 257, "days_rel": 451, "gap_med": 29.0, "n_releases_24m": 7}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1183, forks 61 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:54.430253+00:00)

## What it is
Inkdown is a WYSIWYG Markdown editor fully compatible with the GitHub Flavored Markdown spec, available as a desktop app (Electron) and a VS Code extension. It also includes an LLM dialogue tool for chatting with AI models alongside your notes.

## Use cases
- edit markdown with a wysiwyg editor
- take notes in markdown with live preview
- chat with an llm while writing docs
- write github-flavored markdown documents
- markdown editor inside vscode
- convert markdown editing to rich text editing

## When to choose
- you want WYSIWYG editing that stays fully GFM-compatible
- you want a combined markdown editor and LLM chat tool
- you prefer a lightweight desktop notes app over Notion or Obsidian

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software - development is paused
- you need collaborative editing or cloud sync
- you need a plain-text markdown editor rather than WYSIWYG

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: editor, markdown, chatbot, llm-inference, chat-interface
- domain: text-editors, large-language-models, documentation, developer-tools
- platform: windows, editor-plugin
- tags: wysiwyg, gfm, notes-app, slatejs, vscode-extension, llm-chat, macos, electron

## Member repositories
- 1943time/inkdown (main) score 57

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:54.430253+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:24:30.124964+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/1943time/inkdown (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:54.430253+00:00, sha 8995546cab19)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.