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)
vim-markdown
Markdown Vim Mode (by preservim)
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| novelWriter | vim-markdown | |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | 35 | |
| 1,812 | 4,613 | |
| - | 0.7% | |
| 9.8 | 4.9 | |
| 5 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Python | Vim Script | |
| 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/
vim-markdown
Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-markdown.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-06.
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Treesitter is amazing: syntax highlight code examples, inside docstring, inside markdown
I think vim-markdown does it too
- Obsidian without electron?
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markdown parser for nvim-treesitter?
after searching for a while I found there is a plugin vim-markdown but doesn't work
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tsnode-marker.nvim enhances context changes in your buffer
Not Neovim specific but vim-markdown supports some conceal functionality.
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New to NeoVim, wanting to use it for notes.
I can only speak to markdown for linking, but check out vim-markdown. ge lets you navigate from a markdown link to the file it’s linking to.
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Formatting markdown lines with double space ending does not work.
vim-markdown also did not work.
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Making bullet points intuitive (word processor like) in Neovim?
Personally, I use vim-markdown for this and other niceties for markdown.
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Automatic hyphen on new line
Something like vim-markdown maybe?
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Par, a Text Formatting Program
I love this because I use markdown heavily in vim. I can't get vim markdown plugin to support auto bullet point insertion and nice `gq` bulleted list paragraph formatting at the same time[1]. However, vim lets you set a program that will do the paragraph formatting for you. I think I could use this to get `gq` to work while still having auto bullet point insertion!
1: https://github.com/preservim/vim-markdown/issues/232
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Any idea what this markdown "live preview" plugin is?
Not sure which exact plugin that is, but seems like it just utilizes conceal, like this one.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing novelWriter and vim-markdown you can also consider the following projects:
manuskript - A open-source tool for writers
vim-table-mode - VIM Table Mode for instant table creation.
proselint - A linter for prose.
vimwiki - Personal Wiki for Vim
Apostrophe - Mirror of
vim-pandoc - pandoc integration and utilities for vim
Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
mkdx - A vim plugin that adds some nice extra's for working with markdown documents
CudaText - Cross-platform text editor, written in Free Pascal
tagbar - Vim plugin that displays tags in a window, ordered by scope
KeenWrite - Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.
neuron.nvim - Make neovim the best note taking application
novelWriter vs manuskript
vim-markdown vs vim-table-mode
novelWriter vs proselint
vim-markdown vs vimwiki
novelWriter vs Apostrophe
vim-markdown vs vim-pandoc
novelWriter vs Zettlr
vim-markdown vs mkdx
novelWriter vs CudaText
vim-markdown vs tagbar
novelWriter vs KeenWrite
vim-markdown vs neuron.nvim