Note apps hold the words hostage: a proprietary format, a connection, a vendor that might disappear.
Readied is an offline-first Markdown editor. What you type is what gets saved. No hidden transforms. The file has to stay readable if the app goes away. Live at readied.app.
The problem#
Cloud note apps phone home. Offline is a cache of their server. When the vendor goes, so do the notes.
I wanted the opposite: you write, the app saves, a .md file sits on disk. No internet required. Open it with any editor.
Dripnex is the other pole — SQLite as the store so notes can sync later. Readied does not share that store on purpose. Files are the product here.
One hard decision#
Local-first is the product, not a feature. Sync can wait. macOS first. Plugins optional. The markdown is never auto-modified.
CodeMirror 6. Local storage. Open source. The bytes on disk are the note, not a dump of a richer document.
What I would not do again#
Ship "export" as the way you get your words back. Export is a feature of a hostage.
Treat Markdown as a cache of a richer document. Then you have two truths, and the file is the lie.
The bar#
A note you can open when the network is gone, and a file you can open when the app is gone. readied.app.