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)
gitui
Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀 (by extrawurst)
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| novelWriter | gitui | |
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| 40 | 82 | |
| 1,812 | 16,990 | |
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| 9.8 | 9.5 | |
| 5 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Python | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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/
gitui
Posts with mentions or reviews of gitui.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-07.
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GitUI
I was missing interactive rebase, as it is missing from libgit2
https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui/issues/32
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Question: In your experience, is Helix always more snappy/responsive than Neovim?
I have this feeling with all rust apps using crossterm crate as their backend like GitUI for example
- I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla
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GitUI 0.24 supports searching the entire commit history
GitUI is a terminal UI for git written in Rust. We aim to simplify common git tasks in a fast, keyboard-only and cross platform way without leaving your beloved CLI.
- Lazygit: Simple terminal UI for Git commands
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Easy way to git blame from helix?
The terminal applications I used are GitUi and LazyGit. Both are very good and have almost all what you need.
- GitUI 0.23 adds more fuzzy finding and rewording commits
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Is there any solution like Github Desktop and Gitkraken For terminal Users
Give gitui a try. It’s a text|terminal user interface (tui) for git. I think that’s what you are looking for. Also, search GitHub for “git tui” and I’m sure you will find a bunch of other options.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing novelWriter and gitui you can also consider the following projects:
manuskript - A open-source tool for writers
lazygit - simple terminal UI for git commands
proselint - A linter for prose.
tig - Text-mode interface for git
Apostrophe - Mirror of
gitsigns.nvim - Git integration for buffers
Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
delta - A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
CudaText - Cross-platform text editor, written in Free Pascal
lazygit.nvim - Plugin for calling lazygit from within neovim.
KeenWrite - Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.
neogit - An interactive and powerful Git interface for Neovim, inspired by Magit