ThiefMD VS scrivomatic

If you want to fork or collab on a Fountain specific editor, the Fountain parser is located here. We use GtkSourceView to perform syntax highlighting.

If you're looking for a markdown notetaking app, my recommendation is ThiefMD. It has a library, syntax highlighting, decent previews, typewriter scrolling, writebetter integration and a lot of theming options.

The two best I have used are Apostrophe and ThiefMD. Both are available as a flatpak if your distro doesn't have them in the repos. Apostrophe is the nicer writing experience for a single document and exports through pandoc. ThiefMD isn't as good at exporting, but it has a wide variety of themes available, and keeps an organized library for you, similar to Ulysses on mac os, which makes it perfect for notes and longform writing. Regrettably, there doesn't appear to be in the settings for RTL for either of them...

Thanks! If you wind up testing it out, feel free to let me know what you think. If you find a bug or miss a feature, we're pretty responsive on GitHub Issues.

I'm a graduate student who's trying to beat the dissertation submission deadline by attempting to speed the writing process up by using Scrivener. I've got a really exciting research topic, but I'm super overwhelmed by the technical side of things like setting up the right formatting style and importing citations and bibliography from Zotero.I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to correctly use markdown as Scrivener also has styles and is essentially a WISIWYG text editor. Granted, I had never used markdown before, but I'd thought I'd be able to master it on the go. Nope. Instead, I wasted hours upon hours trying to get systems like Scrivomatic and Scrivener for Scientific Writing to work. It bore zero fruit. Some scripts gave mysterious error messages at random. Results compiled in Scrivener using Pandoc were just utter trash with misplaced headings and incorrect formatting. Installation of Zotpick (a shortcut for quickly copying references from Zotero) succeeded, but then it just didn't work (looks like the project has got outdated). Every attempt to get things under control spiraled into yet another rabbit hole.

Scrivomatic is what you're looking for!

If you haven't come across Scrivomatic yet, it might be worth digging into. It's basically a script that wraps around pandoc to help with compiling academic writing in Scrivener.

This may not be a solution that appeals to you as it's a bit complex and requires some setup, but I had success using the Scrivomatic approach to compile from Scrivener to markdown and then use Pandoc/Bibtex to auto include my references into whatever format I needed: https://github.com/iandol/scrivomatic