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Work · August 14, 2019

Document Node

Fast writing and instant publishing tool

Document Node launched on August 14, 2019 with 65 votes, #708 of 3,185 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

What it does

Document Node simplifies the process from writing to publishing. * Distraction-free writing * One-click to generate a website * Intuitive offline site builder for creating custom pages * Cross-platform (supporting macOS, Windows, and Linux)

Document Node builds tools and apps for thinkers, developers, and creators. Home of MarkNode and TermTree.

We follow our curiosity into a problem, then craft what proves useful into polished, dependable tools — the kind people rely on every day. Only a handful of experiments earn their way out of the lab. The ones that do, we refine until they're fast, dependable, and a genuine pleasure to use every day. A local-first writing app that shows your Markdown as a live mind map. Drag a node to reorder the prose — your files never leave your disk. A cockpit for parallel development — a live task map for your terminals and AI agents. Run shells, servers, tests, and CLI agents in task nodes, and let the attention queue tell you what to look atfrom documentnode.io

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