Maden

Write AI skills and prompts without thinking about Markdown syntax.

Maden is a fast, reliable, Notion-inspired Markdown editor for VS Code.
It opens your *.md files in a friendly interface with beautiful text rendering, so you can focus on content instead of Markdown symbols.

Value Proposition

• Content-first writing for AI skills, prompts, and docs
• Notion-like editing UX inside VS Code
• Beautiful, readable rendering while preserving real Markdown files
• Fast and reliable live sync to disk
• No need to remember all Markdown rules while drafting

Key Features

• Custom editor view type: maden.plateMarkdownEditor (default for *.md)
• Plate-based editing toolkit:
  • headings, paragraphs, lists, links, code, quotes
  • tables, media, slash commands, drag-and-drop blocks
  • math and additional rich-text plugins from the Plate stack
• Export from editor UI:
  • HTML
  • PDF
  • DOCX
• Paste/import handling for common GitHub-style Markdown + HTML snippets

Install

1. Install Maden from the VS Code Marketplace.
2. Open any .md file.
3. Maden opens automatically as the default Markdown editor.

If needed, you can still use VS Code’s native Markdown editor via Reopen Editor With....

Configuration

Maden contributes the following settings:

• maden.liveWriteDebounceMs (number, default: 300, min: 50)
  • Delay before writing editor changes back to the file.

Behavior Notes

• External changes (including edits from other editors/tools) are applied immediately.
• The extension enforces first-line title heading from filename to keep document titles consistent.

Requirements

• VS Code ^1.95.0

For Contributors

npm install
npm run build

Watch mode:

npm run watch:extension
npm run watch:webview

Unit tests:

npm run test:unit

License

MIT