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+# Mission
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+BlockNote’s mission is to make it easy for developers to embed a modern, high-quality rich-text editing experience into their applications, while maximizing developer control.
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+---
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+## Vision
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+BlockNote aims to be the most trusted open foundation for rich-text editing in modern web applications.
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+BlockNote enables editing experiences comparable to industry leaders, while remaining fully open, developer-controlled, and adaptable to a wide range of use cases. We aim for long-term maintainability, extensibility, and collaboration across a diverse ecosystem of applications.
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+---
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+## How the Mission Guides Decisions
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+The mission is not only descriptive; it is intended to guide decision‑making across the project.
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+When evaluating ideas, RFCs, prioritization decisions, or technical changes, maintainers, Product, and the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) are expected to consider the following questions:
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+- Does this improve the developer experience of integrating and using BlockNote?
+- Does this contribute to a high-quality and accessible end-user editing experience when integrated into an application?
+- Does this preserve or enhance the extensible, modular, and developer-controlled nature of the library?
+- Does this align with a modern, block-based editing model?
+- Does this preserve or enhance collaborative editing experiences?
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+Proposals that clearly align with the mission are more likely to be accepted. Proposals that conflict with the mission may be declined or redirected, even if they are technically feasible.