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What's new in BlockNote? (The Block-Based, Notion-Style Editor)

K.3.401 | Day 1 | 13:45 - 14:10 | Speakers: Yousef El-Dardiry, Nick Perez

What's new in BlockNote? (The Block-Based, Notion-Style Editor)
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Abstract

In this talk, we will highlight the latest updates to BlockNote. BlockNote is a rich text editor that focuses on a modern (block-based, Notion-style) User Experience and an easy DX (Developer Experience). BlockNote is used in open source projects like Docs (La Suite / ZenDiS), OpenProject and XWiki.

In this talk we'll give an introduction to how it works and highlight the latest developments and upcoming features, such as:

  • Features for Async Collaboration: Versioning, Track Changes and Comments
  • The renewed Extension system
  • AI Integration

Speakers

Yousef El-Dardiry

Maintainer of BlockNote. We're building a new text editing layer for the open web. Excited about local-first and future of programming concepts.

Previously, cofounded Relive (mobile app for running / hiking / cycling with 20M+ users world-wide).

Nick Perez

Core maintainer of BlockNote a ProseMirror-based rich-text editor. Previously worked as a maintainer of Tiptap, another ProseMirror-based rich-text editor. Interested in: - CRDTs, like Y.js - Bluesky's ATProtocol - Web Development & Frameworks

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