Hosted instance
BlogIDE
A writing IDE for essays and blog posts, with a research pad beside the draft: footnotes, a source library, citations, and quick notes. Plain Markdown, local-first autosave, optional AI. Open source and self-hostable.
This is the hosted instance at blogide.com.
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What's inside
Footnotes first
Sidenotes or anchored notes, drag-to-pin cards, and an archive of deleted notes.
Research beside the draft
A Library for links, PDFs and BibTeX, with Zotero search, citations and pinned previews.
Share and get comments
Send a draft to a reader with view or comment access. Comments anchor to the text they quote.
Backed up to GitHub
Map folders or essays to paths in a repo and push plain Markdown whenever you like.
Local-first sync
Every edit saves in the browser first, then syncs, with version history and conflict copies.
Ready to publish
Copy for Substack with native footnotes, check links, or export Markdown, HTML or PDF.
Screenshots
Editor workspace with Library, footnotes, and research pins.
