What is Suzuri
A writing environment inside a code editor — live-preview markdown, Typst and LaTeX, and a PDF pane, all over plain files on your own machine.
Suzuri (硯) is Japanese for inkstone — the stone a scholar grinds ink on before writing begins. It is a modified build of Zed that adds a writing environment without giving up the code editor underneath.
The premise is that research writing and coding are the same job. You read PDFs, take notes, run an experiment, cite a paper, and typeset a draft — and today that means four applications that do not share a file. Suzuri puts all of it over plain markdown in one window, on your own disk, where the agents you already code with can read and write the same files you do.
What it adds
Writing
Markdown renders in place and reveals its source when your cursor touches it — editable tables, resizable images, citation chips, wikilinks, and screenshots that attach themselves when you paste.
Reading
A native PDF viewer with continuous scroll, zoom, and real text selection. PDFs reload in place when they change on disk.
Typesetting
Write Typst or LaTeX in one pane and watch the PDF update in the other. If you have no compiler installed, the first preview offers to fetch one.
Linking
[[wikilinks]] with completion, ⌘-click follow, backlinks, and broken-link
diagnostics — built in, with no extension to install.
What it keeps
Everything Zed does: LSP, tree-sitter, multi-buffer editing, terminals, git,
Vim mode, the agent panel, and the rest of a fast, mature editor. Suzuri tracks
Zed's main branch and merges upstream weekly, so improvements to the editor
arrive here too.
Early software
Suzuri is early and in active development, built in the open and dogfooded daily. Expect sharp edges.