Palimpsest Technical Wiki
Living technical documentation for the Palimpsest writing software — a unified platform for every stakeholder in the publishing pipeline.
This vault documents implemented features and systems only. Planning, roadmap, and future feature tracking live elsewhere. If a page exists here, the code exists in the codebase.
Tech Stack
- Backend: Go (Sidecar server via Tauri)
- Frontend: Svelte 5 (SvelteKit)
- Desktop: Tauri v2
- API: REST with DTO isolation
- Database: Per-project SQLite via Ent ORM
- Editor: ProseMirror
Navigation
Architecture
Maps of Content
Repositories
- Codebase: https://github.com/HusteDev/palimpsest
- This Wiki: https://github.com/HusteDev/palimpsest-wiki
Conventions
- Every page uses standardized frontmatter (see
_templates/) - Every reference to another documented entity uses a
[[wikilink]] - Every feature with dataflow has canvas diagrams in a
diagrams/subfolder - Status values:
draft→review→stable→deprecated
Last updated: 2026-03-04