novelWriter
novelWriter is an open source plain text editor designed for writing novels. It supports a minimal markdown-like syntax for formatting text. It is written with Python 3 (3.8+) and Qt 5 (5.15) for cross-platform support. (by vkbo)
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| novelWriter | Apostrophe | |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | 4 | |
| 1,812 | 396 | |
| - | 1.5% | |
| 9.8 | 0.0 | |
| 5 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
novelWriter
Posts with mentions or reviews of novelWriter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-17.
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Thank you to the forum - The last 72hrs have been amazing!
Never buy the book, start writing the book, https://novelwriter.io/ ;)
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Author Resources: Tools and Software
https://novelwriter.io/ is free and open source (I haven't used it, only know about it).
- I'm from Linux and I'd like to ask a question. Is there an Open Source map editor hereabouts?
- NovelWriter. Some think AI have your imagination - Prove them wrong.
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How to install Davinci?
novelWriter for books is like building a dungeon in D&D I might add. All it needs is a map editor ;)
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What kind of applications are missing from the Linux ecosystem?
Novelwriter almost hits the sweet spot, but misses some features and is written in python, which makes some features hard to implement due to the nature of the programming language.
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Getting into writing novels
Try this software. It may well help you to write better -> novelWriter.
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Looking for a 'Scrivener Light'
Alternatively, if you want Scrivener-like and are happy with open source projects, novelWriter scratches some of the same itch and is (a) free and (b) available on Linux, Windows, and macOS: it has a similar project-oriented interface to Scrivener, can export projects in HTML, Open Document, Markdown, Plain Text, or PDF, supports tagging and metadata, and uses Markdown for authoring. It's much less hot on importing foreign files (it's really an authoring tool) but is implemented in Python, uses XML/Json for internal files/metadata/configuration, and in use feels like an early version of Scrivener 1.x (which is really what your students want, but Lit'n'Latte discontinued it about a decade ago and you can no longer buy it).
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I'm Andrew Rowe, the author of Arcane Ascension, Weapons & Wielders, etc. AMA!
MSWord is surprising to hear. I would've thought some specific tools like Vellum. There are free and open source tools as well, like https://novelwriter.io/
Apostrophe
Posts with mentions or reviews of Apostrophe.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
- Apostrophe – A Markdown Editor for Linux
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Lightweight minimalistic Markdown editor for OpenSUSE
Maybe Ghostwriter or Apostrophe?
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What software do you use for writing?
However, a few months ago started switched to Apostrophe (Desktop Linux) as my writing driver, leaving LO Writer only for editing and spellchecking. "Markdown" style editors like Apostrophe are a simpler interface and focus on what you really need — to get the words out of the brain and into paper / e-paper. Spellcheck and proofreading can come up later (and for that I still go to LO Writer since it's easy to work dictionaries for it). Plus, it has a simple export to HTML that allows you to quickly send and share stuff to eg.: beta readers.
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FOSS markdown editor
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...
What are some alternatives?
When comparing novelWriter and Apostrophe you can also consider the following projects:
manuskript - A open-source tool for writers
marktext - 📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
proselint - A linter for prose.
ThiefMD - The markdown editor worth stealing. Inspired by Ulysses, based on code from Quilter
Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
MarkdownEditing - Powerful Markdown package for Sublime Text with better syntax understanding and good color schemes.
CudaText - Cross-platform text editor, written in Free Pascal
Dokuwiki - The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine
KeenWrite - Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.
mypaint - MyPaint is a simple drawing and painting program that works well with Wacom-style graphics tablets.
org-roam - Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode
retext - ReText: Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText