---
title: "2025 is the year of Markdown. Avo built Marksmith Markdown editor for Rails"
author: "Yaroslav Shmarov"
date: "2025-02-06"
canonical_url: "https://blog.superails.com/avo-marksmith-markdown-editor"
markdown_url: "https://blog.superails.com/avo-marksmith-markdown-editor.md"
description: "In late 2024, Microsoft released microsoft/markitdown, a tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown."
tags: ["avo"]
license: "GNU AGPL v3. Credit Yaroslav Shmarov and link the canonical URL."
---

# 2025 is the year of Markdown. Avo built Marksmith Markdown editor for Rails

### The age of Markdown

In late 2024, Microsoft released [microsoft/markitdown](https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown), a tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

PlanetScale uses MARKDOWN for its' marketing pages.

![planetscale uses markdown for marketing pages](https://blog.superails.com/assets/images/prefer-markdown.png)

Also my friend [Jeremy Smith](https://x.com/jeremysmithco) built [Liminal Forum](https://liminal.forum) that features a custom markdown editor.

![marksmith-liminal](https://blog.superails.com/assets/images/1-marksmith-liminal.png)

At Rails World 2024 DHH teased **House (MD)**, a new **markdown editor** for Rails.

![marksmith-dhh-house-md](https://blog.superails.com/assets/images/2-marksmith-dhh-house-md.png)

Sneek peak:

![marksmith-dhh-house-md-preview](https://blog.superails.com/assets/images/3-marksmith-dhh-house-md-preview.png)

### Marksmith by Avo

Nobody knows when House (MD) will actually be released, but in the meantime Avo built [Marksmith](https://github.com/avo-hq/marksmith), a markdown editor for Rails.

![marksmith-announcement](https://blog.superails.com/assets/images/4-marksmith-announcement.png)

I plan to integrate it into [SupeRails](https://superails.com) soon.