fiction-tools VS privatize

I've always loved the submissions for new writing tools here on HN, so I've kept a growing list of my favorites for a long time. When I needed to learn React, I built Fiction.Tools to make all those tools searchable and filterable for everyone else.

I've also made the site open source (at https://github.com/indentlabs/fiction-tools/) so anyone can add their own favorites to the list. The data is all available in structured JSON blobs (https://github.com/indentlabs/fiction-tools/tree/main/src/da...) for anyone that wants to use it other ways, too. :)

Obviously there's no one-size-fits-all "writing process", but I did my best to organize them according to a common flow: tools to help you build a fictional world, to help you write within it, to help you revise what you've written, and finally to help you publish or share your work with others.

There are a lot of struggling authors out there (myself included!) that I think could benefit from a tool or two to help ease them through the tougher (or just less interesting) stages of this process, so I hope organizing the tools this way makes it easier for someone in need to find the right tool at the right time.

Also, each tool is tagged with hoverable attributes that explain what platforms they run on, how much they cost, whether they have ads, subscriptions, whether there are discounts for educators, etc. If you click the "Highlight tools" button in the bottom-right, you can toggle between simplying highlighting tools in the larger list or filtering every tool out except those that match the attribute(s) you're looking for.

As I said above, the site is fully open source and I would very much appreciate any tool suggestions, feedback, or PRs you have for other tools that might be helpful to writers; using new tools in my writing has kind of become a passion of my own, so even if you don't think something would fit in the list I'd still love to try it out myself. :)

I partially encrypt/decrypt a file based on the presence of special HEREDOCs (ie <The tool is still a WIP as it isn't portable between machines -- https://github.com/higgins/privatize

more on it here: https://encapsulate.me/writing/Privatize.html

Yes!

I keep a daily log tracked in git. All of it public although some information is encrypted with my privatization tool (https://github.com/higgins/privatize).

The log itself is a simple org file but I parse and render it in html here so that I can share important event dates (eg: my wedding) with my family and friends.

Here is what I did yesterday:

ooo, good call out. thanks!

currently i only have one warning in place if I forget to close there heredoc: https://github.com/higgins/privatize/blob/main/index.js#L168

but could add some more error checking. added to TODOs: https://github.com/higgins/privatize/commit/9696f30576897898...

https://github.com/higgins/privatize

When added to a git repo, it will automatically transparently encrypt/decrypt files you want privatized.

For example if you configured your repo to privatize the file `example.txt`, you could write:

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