Open the .md. Keep the .md.
Claude and ChatGPT keep handing you Markdown. Bliss opens it like a document, lets you edit without an IDE costume, and saves plain CommonMark + GFM. Untouched text stays byte-for-byte.
For the dump, not the vault.
You already have Obsidian if you want a graph. You already have VS Code if you want an IDE. Bliss is the other window: one file, readable, done. Windows especially needed something in this niche that isn’t “open it in Notepad and squint.”
Saves are picky on purpose.
Bliss only rewrites the blocks you actually edited. Everything else is spliced back from the original bytes, so your Git diffs stay about your words, not about someone “normalizing” markers.
That’s the whole product bet. If a construct is weird, we leave it weird rather than quietly fix it into something else.
No cloud required.
There’s no Bliss account and no sync product in v1. Offline works because the files are just files. App telemetry is PostHog, opt-in, off by default; we don’t need your drafts to ship a Markdown viewer.
And no: v1 has zero AI features inside the app. Bliss sits next to the chat. It isn’t another assistant pretending to help.
What it isn’t
Not Word (your file stays Markdown). Not an IDE with a Markdown coat. Not a linked-note vault. If you need those, use those. Bliss is for when you wanted a document and got a.md instead.