Like cursor, but for blogging: a weekend project

Summary

Building a AI Enabled Blog Editor Recently, I've started writing a blog on my personal website, on topics related to AI. People have questioned if blogs are still relevant in 2025 in the age of AI, and I'll refer to this recent post on hacker news which outlines why I think it's a good idea. Currently, I'm exploring different tools and ways to host my blog. In my developer setup, the AI tools have greatly helped me be more efficient, and write better code. In my blog editing setup, I'd like to achieve the same thing. So far, I've tried google docs + gemini, notion (with their notion ai), as well as chatGPT and Claude. I've also tried editing markdown directly in cursor, using copilot, but they've all had some limitations. ChatGPT and Claude tends to write in a generic style erases my personal tone of voice. I don't want to create "AI slop", I just want to write more efficiently. Notion's AI was similar, it just didn't feel quite effective. Cursor is just heavily optimized for coding, and not writing. Some things worked, but it was definitely a hack. Building My Own Tool Instead of spending more time looking for better tools, I've decided to try to create a tool to help me out. I'm looking for: A simple editor that writes markdown. This way I can easily copy-paste it to different surfaces like notion, google docs, wordpress, etc. AI features that don't replace me as a writer. I'm not trying to auto-generate SEO spam, and I'm not trying to make the dead internet theory a reality. AI features that improve the speed at which I can write.** Echoing the point above, I want copilot features. Here I'm envisioning things like suggestions and automated research. This blog post is currently being written via this tool - at the moment, I've set up a markdown editor using mdxEditor, and a nextJS project. I spent some time figuring out how to setup the editor, paste images into the editor, and I've also added a placeholder AI tools component, which currently does nothing: This ge...