u/Historical-Willow679

So I built easymd: real-time collaborative markdown editing, like Google Docs, except the document is an actual .md file and an AI agent can edit it live alongside you.

- Real-time multiplayer editor (live cursors, CRDT sync, no merge conflicts)

- The file on disk stays canonical — edits sync straight back, no drift

- MCP server built in: connect an agent in one line; it can read, create, and update the same docs you're editing. Its changes appear live in your editor, and your edits are instantly visible to it.

- Clean markdown also saves a ton of tokens vs feeding models HTML/DOCX/PDF

- One-line CLI to start: npx easymd open CLAUDE.md

https://www.easymd.tech/

The idea is one shared, always-current file that both humans and agents work from, instead of copy-pasting context around.

Would love feedback! Especially on the agent-as-collaborator workflow and what'd make it actually useful in your setup.

First year student at MIT here. I've tried basically every focus technique out there and the apps all have the same two problems: they're expensive as hell (why is a focus app subscription based?), and they don't really understand the real distractors, which honestly just makes everything worse when you're already struggling to start.

So I built Anchor:

The feature I'm most proud of is one I haven't seen anywhere else: you can use any physical card to lock and unlock your distracting apps. Any NFC card, whatever's already in your wallet. It sounds gimmicky but for my ADHD brain, having that physical thing you have to grab and tap is the difference between actually starting work and convincing yourself "just five more minutes." Screen Time blocking alone never cut it because it's too easy to just override it.

It's only $2.99 as a one time purchase because I just wanted to cover the time I put into making it, not lock people into a subscription for something that should just work.

Beyond that it does focus timers with warm-up and cooldown, low-dopamine break suggestions so you don't fall into scrolling on your break, and quick notes for when a random thought tries to pull you out of flow mid-session.

Still pretty early so I'd genuinely appreciate any and all feedback :)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anchor-adhd-timer/id6768465420

I kept running into the same problem: my team's AI context lived in plans.md / claude.md / spec files, but there was no good way to co-edit them, and agents only ever saw old pasted snapshots. So I fixed it building easymd, completely free

I have ADHD and I built a focus app with a feature I've never seen anywhere else: use any physical card to lock your distracting apps. No expensive shit.