PutDoc

🌟 PutDoc — A Smarter Document Editor for Developers

https://github.com/johnwaynecornell/PutDoc

PutDoc is a next-generation document editor designed for people who think in code, markup, and structure.
It blends the precision of a developer tool with the ease of a modern writing environment — and it’s open-source.

If you’ve ever wished your editor understood your content instead of just displaying it, PutDoc was built for you.

✨ What Makes PutDoc Different

🔗 Rich Paste — Bring Anything In, Beautifully

PutDoc includes a custom HTML ingestion system that can take messy clipboard input — code blocks, mixed formatting, IDE exports, PDFs, even ChatGPT transcripts — and convert it into clean, consistent, structured HTML.

You don’t paste garbage.
You paste content that’s ready to work with.

🧱 Snippet-Based Composition

Documents are built from snippets — self-contained segments that can be edited, moved, and transformed independently.

You get:

  • Structure without rigidity
  • Clean separation between narrative, code, and examples
  • Easier editing
  • Zero accidental breakage

It feels like using a document editor with the precision of a component system.

🖋️ Live HTML Editing with Smart Tools

The built-in HTML editor includes:

  • Line/word selection tools
  • Caret tracking with intelligent highlighting
  • Smooth scroll-to-selection
  • Undo/redo ring buffer
  • Manual “Save Now” and debounced autosave
  • Freeze mode for safe bulk edits
  • Inner/outer fragment editing

It’s a deceptively powerful system.

⚡ Real-Time DOM Enhancement

As you write, PutDoc enriches your document with contextual toolbars and visual helpers via a lightweight JS layer.
Editing feels alive without ever being distracting.

🔐 Presence & Writer Locks

When the same document is open in multiple windows, PutDoc coordinates:

  • who is editing
  • who is viewing
  • who holds save permission

This keeps your content stable without interfering with workflow.

🧩 Why You Might Want PutDoc

PutDoc is perfect for:

  • writing technical articles
  • designing specs
  • documenting code
  • preparing knowledge frameworks
  • composing symbolic or structured content
  • turning ChatGPT output into clean, exportable pages
  • maintaining unified documents from many sources

If you build tools, frameworks, or structured knowledge — you will feel at home immediately.

🛠️ Open Source — Built to Build

PutDoc isn’t a SaaS product.
It’s a self-hosted app you build locally.

What you need:

  1. .NET 8 SDK
  2. Git
  3. Clone the repo: 
    git clone https://github.com/johnwaynecornell/PutDoc.git
  4. Run it: 
    cd src/PutDoc dotnet run

PutDoc is intentionally local, private, and developer-friendly.

If you want to extend it — C# and JavaScript source are right there.

If you want to keep your documents offline — they stay in your workspace.

If you want full control — you have it.

🌱 A Tool for Builders, Thinkers, and Framework Architects

PutDoc is not a generic editor.
It’s a precision writing instrument for people who shape ideas, build systems, and organize knowledge.

Whether you’re documenting a framework, writing a spec, creating a knowledge lattice, or composing symbolic structures — PutDoc’s workflow supports the way deep thinkers actually work.

🚀 Want to Try It?

The repo is open:
https://github.com/johnwaynecornell/PutDoc

Clone it, build it, and make it your own.

If you enjoy tools that elevate how you think, I believe you’ll love what PutDoc becomes.