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 (5.15.0+) for cross-platform support. (by vkbo)
CudaText
Cross-platform text editor, written in Free Pascal (by Alexey-T)
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| novelWriter | CudaText | |
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| 40 | 8 | |
| 1,807 | 2,321 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.8 | 9.9 | |
| 1 day ago | 1 day ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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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/
CudaText
Posts with mentions or reviews of CudaText.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-05.
- CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus
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Free Lunch - List of free Windows software for normal users.
I have not tried it yet but CudaText looks promising
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Notepad++ v8.2 Released
There is also CudaText now, fitting somewhere between Notepad++ and VSCode https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText
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CudaText - An open source alternative to SublimeText
Maybe you see some errors in the Console panel (Ctrl+`) ? Or you don't have the linter executable in the PATH? You can write to GitHub issues, people will help.
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How to remove certain lines at once?
It worked here, you need to ask this at the support forum or at GitHub here.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing novelWriter and CudaText you can also consider the following projects:
manuskript - A open-source tool for writers
glad - Multi-Language Vulkan/GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL Loader-Generator based on the official specs.
proselint - A linter for prose.
simple-console-editor - sce -- minimalist console editor (no highlighting, no plugins, no modes, no Emacs)
Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
gitbrowser - A Geany plugin for browsing Git repositories.
Apostrophe - Mirror of
notepad-plus-plus - Notepad++ official repository
org-roam - Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode
mycli - A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
KeenWrite - Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.
rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.