Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing

tlhunter 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm a fan of Manuskript on Linux. It's similar but has more features and, IMO, looks better: https://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/

	▲	KennyBlanken 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Better documentation (well, actually, more like documentation at all), 100+ contributors, 10 years of contributions. There's a lot of general hand-waving about its featureset and whatnot - and an odd jab about non-English support - but no explanation of how non-English language support is lacking in other projects and why hers is better. And am I really supposed to believe that her project has better non-English support than than something that has 100+ contributors over ten years?

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aleda145 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I recently picked up writing short stories again. I briefly looked at different editors, but ended up just doing it in vscode (daily driver). I'll make sure to look at cheese paper for the next one, looks like it has some cool features!

A feature that I have been dreaming about is making an editor that treats each paragraph like a unit of work, and the full text is created by linking together different paragraphs. That way you can easily try different ways without deleting any text. Sort of like nodes in a graph.

And here's my a corporate themed short story: https://dahl.dev/capacity

	▲	sharkjacobs an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "unit of work" but I really like writing in Bike[1] for this reason, it's a hybrid text editor/outliner. It is simply my favorite rich text editor and the outliner functions provide really good affordances for organizing and reorganizing paragraphs. [1] https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/
	▲	loneboat an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Is this deliberately borrowing from Herman Melvile's "Bartleby the Scrivener"? If so it might be worth mentioning, rather than just referring to it as "my short story", since it's a nearly identical retelling of it.

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blacksmith_tb 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe it would explain itself better if that said "specifically designed for writing fiction"? (lots of other sorts of writing don't have characters, for example...)

	▲	hoppyhoppy2 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The first sentence of the first non-bolded paragraph of the webpage is: >Cheese Paper is a text editor specifically designed for writing, particularly fiction. I don't think the HN submitter is the author of the software, but if you're just referring to the HN submission title then maybe they'll take you up on your suggestion.
	▲	KennyBlanken an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think it would explain itself better if it explained precisely what makes it better or different from what already exists; Manuskript (open source) and Scrivner (closed source.)

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buggylearning 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can I get it as a vscode plugin?

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gatane 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This looks very interesting! I liked the menu for characters and worldbuilding, I should try this soon!

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dualboot 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This looks very inspiring! Thank you for sharing it!

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pooploop64 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Another version of this idea that's been around for a while is CherryTree. I would use it a lot more, but there's not really a way to use your notebook on mobile due to it using a special database format that nobody cares about. I love the idea of this program's data instead being a regular folder of regular plaintext files that you can do anything with. In a perfect world everything would be like this, where your files are just your files, and client programs just help you use those files in more effective ways.

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citizenkeen 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is this Scrivener but with markdown?

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personjerry 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As opposed to the other text editors, which are designed primarily for playing Nethack