Formidable — Build and Extend Your Workflow
Formidable is a modular desktop tool for creating dynamic forms and structured Markdown from YAML templates — and a flexible platform for building your own plugins and custom workflows. Simple enough for a personal cookbook or wiki, yet powerful enough for audit-ready documentation and regulated reports.
It’s not just another form builder. Formidable is a complete desktop workspace where your templates, data, and documents come together: clean, organized, and optionally version-controlled.
- Design dynamic YAML templates with a visual editor — loops, lists, conditionals, and more.
- Manage content through a virtual file system that mirrors your project structure.
- Render directly to Markdown with a Handlebars-inspired engine (tables, summaries, nested structures).
- Switch between profiles for different clients, teams, or projects.
- Keep everything auditable with built-in Git integration for full traceability.
- Extend with plugins to add custom logic, exporters, and integrations.
Whether you’re compiling a cookbook, documenting team procedures, building a personal wiki, or preparing regulated reports, Formidable is built for structure, control, and clarity — without cloud lock-in.
📥 Get the latest Formidable release — Windows installer available, macOS and Linux coming soon.
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Auditability by Design — From FERMA to Formidable
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What does 'auditability by design' mean, why does FERMA highlight it in the Cyber Risk Governance Framework, and how does Formidable bring it into practice?
Why Formidable?
2025-08-09 · 2 min read
Five months of learning, experimenting, and building — the story of how Formidable grew from a simple idea into a structured way of working with Markdown.
Welcome
2025-08-08 · 1 min read
An introduction to my blog: exploring tech, coding, productivity, and the journey behind building Formidable.