Markotion User-Facing Features

This list focuses on user-facing features that are implemented in the product today.

Workspace and Content Organization

• Create and manage multiple workspaces.
• Create root pages and nested child pages.
• Rename, duplicate, move, and delete pages.
• Reorganize page trees with drag and drop.
• Move the current page to another workspace.
• Switch workspaces from the top bar or command palette.
• Create workspaces from the top bar and manage the current workspace from the workspace actions menu.

Markdown Editing Experience

• Write in raw, split, or visual mode.
• Keep raw and visual editing in sync while switching modes.
• Autosave while editing.
• Format content with headings, bold, italic, and strikethrough.
• Create bulleted, numbered, and task lists.
• Add quotes, code blocks, tables, links, and horizontal rules.
• Undo and redo with keyboard shortcuts.
• Use toolbar actions and slash commands for fast insert and format actions.

Navigation and Productivity

• Open command palette with Cmd/Ctrl + K.
• Create, rename, duplicate, move, and delete files from command palette.
• Create, switch, and delete workspaces from command palette.
• Trigger share and download actions from command palette.
• Navigate files from command palette search results.
• Use sidebar page tree with collapse/expand and quick actions.
• Open a top bar help popup with command palette actions, slash commands, keyboard shortcuts, and URL import or crawl guidance.

Search and Discovery

• Search pages inside the current workspace from the sidebar.
• Search across all workspaces from the command palette.
• Get search results with snippets.
• Use hybrid semantic search when AI and Vectorize bindings are configured, with lexical search as the fallback.

AI Assistance

• Summarize the current page from the command palette when Workers AI is configured.
• Copy generated summaries or insert them back into the page.
• Suggest a title for untitled pages after enough content has been saved when Workers AI is configured.

Linked Knowledge

• Insert tracked page links with Markotion page URLs, including by dragging pages from the sidebar into the editor.
• See automatic backlinks (Referenced by) and outgoing links (Links to) for tracked page links.
• Navigate linked pages in one click.

Live Sync and Collaboration

• Keep open editors connected to a live page collaboration room.
• Sync page changes across open browser sessions.
• Refresh the workspace tree when another browser session or MCP client changes workspaces, pages, drawings, or assets.
• Avoid overwriting unsaved local edits when external updates arrive.

Images and Drawings

• Upload images from local files.
• Paste or drag and drop images directly into notes.
• Create drawings attached to pages.
• Use drawing tools for freehand, shapes, arrows, text, notes, and image placement.
• Edit or remove inserted drawings from the visual editor.

Import Workflows

• Import markdown files by dropping files or folders into the sidebar.
• Preserve dropped folder structure as nested pages.
• Import content from a URL into a new page.
• Crawl a documentation section from a URL into a nested page tree while keeping the single-page URL import flow.
• Show crawl progress in the sidebar while pages are being imported.
• Keep crawl source metadata on imported pages so users can load more pages later when the crawl has additional results available.
• Name crawled pages with the source domain and page title.
• When Workers AI is configured, convert supported non-markdown files to markdown during sidebar import, including PDF, DOCX, HTML, CSV, XML, spreadsheet formats, and common image formats.

Browser Extension

• Sign in from the Chrome extension through the Markotion app.
• Pick a target workspace from the extension popup.
• Save the current tab URL into Markotion when URL import is available.
• Save the current tab PDF into Markotion when PDF URL import is available.
• Save selected page text into Markotion.
• Pick and save a specific page element as markdown.
• Start a documentation crawl from the current page when crawl import is available.
• Keep a link to the most recent extension import result.

Revision History

• Keep page revision history over time.
• Save a revision entry on every markdown save.
• Browse past revisions.
• Compare the current page or any saved revision against another revision in a side-by-side diff view.
• Restore a page to a selected previous revision.
• Keep the state you restored away from in revision history so users can move back and forth between versions.

Sharing and Export

• Share pages as HTML links.
• Share pages as Markdown links/downloads.
• Share pages as PDF views.
• Download pages as Markdown, HTML, or PDF.
• Download the current workspace as a ZIP archive that keeps the page tree structure.
• Download all workspace files as a ZIP archive with separate top-level folders per workspace.
• View shared pages as clean, readable public pages.

Reading and Presentation

• Render markdown with syntax-highlighted code blocks.
• Render Mermaid diagrams inline.
• Open Mermaid diagrams in fullscreen in shared pages and HTML exports.
• Download rendered Mermaid diagrams as SVG or PNG in visual mode, shared pages, and HTML exports.

Personalization

• Toggle between light and dark theme.
• Keep theme and editor layout preferences between sessions.

Agent and MCP Access

• Generate and revoke personal MCP API keys from the settings page.
• Connect remote MCP clients to /api/mcp with bearer-token authentication.
• Let agents manage workspaces, pages, page trees, search, revisions, sharing, exports, imports, URL conversion, crawls, images, PDFs, and drawings through MCP tools.
• Create and update drawings through MCP by providing drawing snapshot JSON and optional PNG preview data.