Writing

Top 23 Writing Open-Source Projects

  • til

    :memo: Today I Learned

  • Project mention: Collection of "Today I Learned" notes | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-06
  • dillinger

    The last Markdown editor, ever.

  • Project mention: Top 5 Online Markdown Editors (2024) | dev.to | 2024-04-04

    4. Dillinger

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • alex

    Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing

  • Project mention: Markdown Bot - An AI friend who improves your content | dev.to | 2023-07-21

    Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing with tools like alex

  • WriteFreely

    A clean, Markdown-based publishing platform made for writers. Write together and build a community.

  • Project mention: One of the greatest user interface disasters in history | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-29

    Mastodon is a microblogging service, so not meant for large bodies of text. This is why the text entry box is small, the columns are somewhat narrow (especially in deck mode) etc.

    Platforms like https://writefreely.org/ , which are designed to be for blogging and long-form writing, are the place to write this. Write Freely federates so one can follow accounts and interact with posts via Mastodon etc.

  • Raneto

    Markdown powered Knowledgebase Wiki for Node.js

  • Open Live Writer

    An open source fork of Windows Live Writer

  • freeplane

    Application for Mind Mapping, Knowledge Management, Project Management. Develop, organize and communicate your ideas and knowledge in the most effective way.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • themostdangerouswritingapp

    If you stop typing for more than five seconds, all progress will be lost.

  • awesome-technical-writing

    :books: A curated list of awesome resources: articles, books, videos, tools, podcasts about technical writing.

  • vim-pencil

    Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing

  • Project mention: Is there a way to make undo sensible? | /r/vim | 2023-05-13
  • vrite

    Open-source developer content platform

  • Project mention: I Published This with Drag and Drop using Vrite | dev.to | 2024-03-12

    These reasons (and many others) are why I decided to create Vrite - an open-source developer content platform.

  • obsidian-textgenerator-plugin

    Text generator is a handy plugin for Obsidian that helps you generate text content using GPT-3 (OpenAI).

  • writely

    ❤️‍🔥 A chrome extension as an alternative to Notion AI that goes beyond Notion AI. | 一个替代 Notion AI 的浏览器插件,不止于 Notion AI

  • olivetti

    Emacs minor mode to automatically balance window margins

  • Project mention: Emacs for literature | /r/emacs | 2023-05-21

    I also use writeroom because I prefer its simplicity, but worth mentioning that olivetti is the more popular writing mode.

  • org-transclusion

    Emacs package to enable transclusion with Org Mode

  • Project mention: Tangle-Up versus Tangle-Down | /r/LitProg | 2023-05-20

    nobiot/org-transclusion: Emacs package to enable transclusion with Org Mode

  • Butterfly

    🎨 Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app (by LinwoodDev)

  • Project mention: Butterfly: Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, open source note-taking app | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-13
  • nulis

    Mind-mapping software that helps writers collect and organize their knowledge, develop their ideas. Built with React, Redux, Node.js, hosted on Digital Ocean.

  • vim-wordy

    Uncover usage problems in your writing

  • CSV.swift

    CSV reading and writing library written in Swift.

  • YarnClassic

    A tool for writing interactive dialogue in games!

  • awesome-intelligence-writing

    Awesome collection of great and useful resources concerning intelligence writing such as manuals/guides, standards, books, and articles

  • fountain-mode

    Emacs major mode for screenwriting in Fountain plain-text markup

  • Project mention: What software do you use when screenwriting? | /r/FilmIndustryLA | 2023-07-10
  • to-title-case

    A JavaScript method for intelligently converting strings to title case.

  • Project mention: "Smart title case" Action / Perl or JS help please | /r/LaunchBar | 2023-06-14

    A good starting point would be a JavaScript case converter by David Gouch. The code looks very neat, but I couldn't get it to work because I am not a programmer and I don't know how to get the input correctly in the context of a LaunchBar Action.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-04-04.

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Project Stars
1 til 13,123
2 dillinger 7,863
3 alex 4,751
4 WriteFreely 4,110
5 Raneto 2,714
6 Open Live Writer 2,447
7 freeplane 2,232
8 themostdangerouswritingapp 1,652
9 awesome-technical-writing 1,627
10 vim-pencil 1,549
11 vrite 1,465
12 obsidian-textgenerator-plugin 1,254
13 writely 1,192
14 olivetti 973
15 org-transclusion 881
16 Butterfly 799
17 nulis 740
18 vim-wordy 716
19 CSV.swift 632
20 YarnClassic 499
21 awesome-intelligence-writing 445
22 fountain-mode 379
23 to-title-case 361
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