Top 11 writing-tool Open-Source Projects

• notebook

  2 280 9.5 Ruby

  Notebook.ai is a set of tools for writers, game designers, and roleplayers to create magnificent universes – and everything within them. (by indentlabs)

  

  Project mention: World Anvil | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 2022-05-17

  You could give notebook.ai a try, they support self hosting: https://github.com/indentlabs/notebook

• ThiefMD

  3 80 3.0 Vala

  The markdown editor worth stealing. Inspired by Ulysses, based on code from Quilter

  Project mention: Screenplay app for elementaryOS (or Linux?) | reddit.com/r/elementaryos | 2022-02-14

  If you want to fork or collab on a Fountain specific editor, the Fountain parser is located here. We use GtkSourceView to perform syntax highlighting.

• Appwrite

  appwrite.io

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• cross-post

  5 58 7.1 JavaScript

  Cross Post a blog to multiple websites

  Project mention: Cross-Post CLI Tool: New Features and Fixes | dev.to | 2022-02-28

  Almost a year ago, I wrote about how I created a CLI tool to cross-post articles to Dev.to, Hashnode, and Medium. I created the tool because it made the process easier for me, but I also received a lot of feedback from other writers about how it was helpful for them.

• IronWriter

  1 48 0.0 JavaScript

  IronWriter is an open-source writing tool for solo playthroughs of the free tabletop RPG Ironsworn. Focus on writing your story and let IronWriter automatically manage your character sheet.

  Project mention: Generators For Specific RPGs. Needs Suggestions (Day 26 of 31 Days of Gens) | reddit.com/r/rpg_generators | 2021-08-26

• privatize

  7 17 6.4 JavaScript

  Partially encrypt/decrypt a file based on the presence of a heredoc

  Project mention: Show HN: Partially encrypt a file based on its HEREDOCs | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-03-16

  ooo, good call out. thanks!

  currently i only have one warning in place if I forget to close there heredoc: https://github.com/higgins/privatize/blob/main/index.js#L168

  but could add some more error checking. added to TODOs: https://github.com/higgins/privatize/commit/9696f30576897898...

• pandoc-novel

  0 15 0.0 Makefile

  Markdown text to a novel in ePub and PDF.

• sidenotes

  1 14 4.7 TypeScript

  Position floating sidenotes/comments next to a document with inline references.

  

  Project mention: How to build a Google Docs like commenting system in React | reddit.com/r/reactjs | 2022-05-12

  I've run into this library: https://github.com/curvenote/sidenotes, but I am not adding Redux to my project for it. I think that peer dependency is fairly unreasonable and they use Async Thunks, so porting to Context would be hassle.

• SonarQube

  www.sonarqube.org

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• world-scribe-2-desktop

  1 13 5.7 JavaScript

  Desktop app for World Scribe 2

  

  Project mention: I just published the first release of World Scribe 2: the successor to the original worldbuilding app on Android! Enjoy working on desktop and customizing Categories to your heart’s content. | reddit.com/r/worldbuilding | 2021-07-18

  This has been fixed in Version 1.0.1! Thanks again for reporting this issue.

• urtext_docs

  3 9 5.6

  Urtext : Documentation

  Project mention: New syntax and compiler for plaintext writing and organizing. | reddit.com/r/NoteTaking | 2022-01-01

• squirrel

  1 3 9.3 Python

  A cli program to track writing progress. (by squirrel-writer)

  

  Project mention: Sunday Daily Thread: What's everyone working on this week? | reddit.com/r/Python | 2022-01-30

• hyscan

  0 1 0.0 Hy

  Writing assistant with topological orderings and mashed kumquats

writing-tool related posts

• Show HN: Partially encrypt a file based on its HEREDOCs
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2022
• Generators For Specific RPGs. Needs Suggestions (Day 26 of 31 Days of Gens)
  1 project | reddit.com/r/rpg_generators | 26 Aug 2021
• I just published the first release of World Scribe 2: the successor to the original worldbuilding app on Android! Enjoy working on desktop and customizing Categories to your heart’s content.
  1 project | reddit.com/r/worldbuilding | 18 Jul 2021
• Selfhosting notebook.ai?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 27 May 2021
• Show HN: QueryCal – calculate metrics from your calendars using SQL
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2021
• An app to write your note and in one project linked them
  1 project | reddit.com/r/Solo_Roleplaying | 6 Jan 2021

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