Notula is a free WYSIWYG Markdown editor for docs as code - the Markdown documentation that already lives in a git repository. It is word processing that works on Markdown files. Point it at a repository and it shows only the documents, a tree of Markdown rather than a file list, and edits them with no hashes, asterisks or table pipes on screen, not even on the line the cursor is on. What lands on disk is ordinary Markdown that engineers review in a normal pull request.
Select a passage and leave a comment. Reply, mention somebody, suggest an edit, resolve. A mention arrives as a desktop notification carrying the sentence they wrote, and clicking it opens the document at that paragraph. Threads are stored beside the documents as plain files and committed with them, so they arrive with a clone, work offline, and outlive any account. Two people commenting at once cannot conflict, and the documents stay clean: no invisible anchors, no block IDs, no HTML comments.
Publishing is one sentence about what changed. Branches, staging and rebases stay out of sight, and a conflict arrives as a choice between two versions of a paragraph rather than as conflict markers. Notula fetches in the background and marks every document the rest of the team has moved on, with who changed it and when, and nothing changes under the cursor until it is taken. It speaks git and nothing else, so GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Gitea work with the SSH key already on the machine, and a repository with no remote works too.
Mermaid blocks are drawn as diagrams inside the document. Tables, footnotes and images are edited on the page. A document prints and saves as PDF, and every version of it can be read and brought back. A one-character edit stays a one-character diff because only what changed is written back. Notula also writes a briefing describing the workspace for coding agents, so agents and people work to the same conventions.
Sending somebody a page is a link. It opens that document in their copy of Notula, clones the repository for them first if they do not have it, or offers the download if they have never heard of it.
Free, with no account and no server. macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel, and Windows on x64 and Arm.
