Show HN: Zendoc – A "Zen" writing environment built on the Cursor/VS Code engine(yostar.github.io)

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Show HN: Zendoc – A "Zen" writing environment built on the Cursor/VS Code engine

https://yostar.github.io/zendoc/

I built Zendoc this weekend: a VS Code extension that turns Cursor into a writing environment. Three steps to get going—install Cursor, install the extension, create a workspace. Your work auto-saves and auto-pushes to a private GitHub repo. Every revision, forever.

The idea: software devs have an entire ecosystem—one command installs anything, everything builds on what others made. But when I sit down to write a note or a document, it's all proprietary. Word, Docs, Notion. Walled gardens.

Zendoc brings the docs-as-code workflow to writers. Markdown files you own. Git versioning. An AI agent instructed to act like a librarian, not a coder. Project memory that persists ("add instruction: always use British spelling" — it remembers). All local. No upload-everything-to-the-cloud.

The hardest part was making it simple enough for non-technical users. Stripped UI. One wizard. Connect GitHub when prompted, enable GitDoc, done.

Open source. Would love feedback!

https://github.com/yostar/zendoc

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