Important: NibEditor is now Orden. We decided to change the name but everything else is still the same :)

Orden

If you're also annoyed by all the other Markdown Editors out there, you should probably just use Orden.

It's extremely fast, lightweight, lets your favorite LLM edit your notes and syncs everything to the cloud - on any platform.

How much does it cost? Well, it's free.

See for yourself: orden.so

Install

Download an installer from the latest release, open orden.so in a browser, or use a package manager:

Windows, Scoop	scoop bucket add lxorb https://github.com/lxorb/scoop-bucket then scoop install orden
Windows, Chocolatey	choco install orden
macOS, Homebrew	brew install --cask --no-quarantine lxorb/tap/orden
Nix	nix profile install github:lxorb/orden?dir=packaging/nix
Nix, current source from unstable	nix profile install github:lxorb/orden/unstable?dir=packaging/nix#orden-unstable
Debian, Ubuntu, apt repository	add https://apt.orden.so as below, then sudo apt install orden
Debian, Ubuntu, one file	sudo apt install ./Orden-<version>-linux-x64.deb
Fedora, openSUSE	sudo dnf install ./Orden-<version>-linux-x64.rpm
Any Linux	chmod +x Orden-<version>-linux-x64.AppImage && ./Orden-<version>-linux-x64.AppImage

The apt repository, on x86_64 and arm64, with its key in /etc/apt/keyrings:

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://apt.orden.so/orden-archive-keyring.asc | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/orden.asc >/dev/null
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/orden.sources >/dev/null <<'EOF'
Types: deb
URIs: https://apt.orden.so
Suites: stable
Components: main
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/orden.asc
EOF
sudo apt update
sudo apt install orden

Suites: unstable follows the edge builds instead. On an apt older than 2.3 the source is one line, deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/orden.asc] https://apt.orden.so stable main, in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/orden.list. An install from the repository is updated by apt, and the app only says when a new version is out.

Why Orden?

	Open source	Built-in MCP	Win, mac, Linux	Web	Android, iOS	Backlinks & graph	Canvas	Pen & pressure	Live collaboration	Free sync	Free publishing
Orden	✅	✅	✅	✅	Android	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Notion	❌	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅
Obsidian	❌	❌	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Typora	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
MarkText	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Joplin	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌
Logseq	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
iA Writer	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Bear	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌

Features

Writing

• WYSIWYG markdown, rendered as you type
• Tables, task lists, callouts, footnotes, math and mermaid diagrams
• Split panes, saved layouts, reading view and slides
• Vim mode, or Notion and Obsidian key maps
• Export to PDF, Word, ePub, HTML, RTF and images

Linking and finding

• Wikilinks to a note, a heading or a block, with embeds and hover previews
• Backlinks, unlinked mentions and a graph of the space or one note
• Search a whole space with operators, and replace across it
• Nested tags, and Essentials: the notes and sites kept at the top of the sidebar as tiles, as Zen keeps them
• PDFs with highlights, and every version of a note kept

Canvas and pen

• Infinite canvas with cards, connectors, groups, shapes and ink
• Page notes: A4, Letter or endless pages in a column, with thumbnails
• Import a PDF as pages to write on, and export it back with the ink on it
• Open JSON Canvas files, the same ones Obsidian reads
• Pen support with pressure and tilt: three pens, an eraser and a lasso
• Built for a tablet and the S Pen

Together

• Live collaboration on notes and canvases, like Google Docs
• Named carets, and ink appearing as it is drawn
• Share a space by email or link, read or write
• Guests join by link, no account needed
• Publish a space as a blog on your own domain

Everywhere

• Native on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, plus the web
• Free sync across every device
• Built-in MCP so your favorite LLM reads and writes your notes
• Themes from a store, or your own CSS
• A plugin for Even Realities G2 glasses
• Translated into German, French, Swiss German and Japanese

Motivation

I’ve spent the last few years switching between different editors with markdown support, but kept being disappointed: Notion is way too bloated, Obsidian is proprietary and MarkText feels unfinished. Nothing against MarkText, I really liked it and have been using it for a few months, but there’s just stuff missing: you can’t sync and also even though the UI looks nice, it feels a bit clunky and unfinished at places. People will tell you to use a shared mount to have sync but then still, I won’t be able to sync it to my mobile device. And I find it really important to be able to sync your notes between your phone and computer, e.g. when taking some notes you can’t always just pull up your laptop :) So… long story short: I’ve decided to build my own Markdown Editor. I know there’s a lot of them out there, but there’s just not a single one that makes me happy. And I believe my reasoning should become clear when looking at the comparison table above.

I aim to keep this free forever (because I really don’t wanna become the Typora 2.0). For now, I’ve limited cloud space usage to 1 GB per account - I believe this should be more than enough, but if you run into any issues, let me know.

If you’re still unsure whether you should use MarkText or Orden, here are a few reasons to use Orden. This is not to say I don’t like MarkText whatsoever, it’s just why I am not satisfied with it:

• Orden is by construction considerably faster and lighter (around 20x compared to MarkText)
• Orden has an MCP so your favorite LLM can mess with your notes, MarkText doesn’t
• Orden has sync on all of your devices, MarkText is just local
• Have you thought about starting an online blog? Well, it’s one click away now.