Semi-offtopic, but the one feature I wish was more common is (good) equation support. Whenever I try to use a new word processor, no matter how great, I always find myself crawling back to LyX for anything with maths.
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Is pwa though, that's kinda annoying
I never knew this was a consideres a bad thing
I think they mean in the sense that it's not a native desktop app (or mobile)
A program that's similar in many ways is Manuskript
I'd say it does exactly the same thing, except you just download it and go. There are linux, windows, and mac os versions.
Then for the closed source world, there's Scrivener. I'll not link it because it doesn't support linux. But same concept.
Manuskript is unfortunately a very buggy piece of software, with regular freezes and crashes. And the UI is, in my opinion, extremely clunky and unintuitive. I love open source software, but I can't in good conscience recommend anyone use it.
Scrivener did have a linux version that they stopped developing, and they ended up giving away the last version. Someone packed it in an appimage for easy use, should be able to find it if you search appimage scrivener. It's a pretty feature complete release, and still works well to this day.
I've never actually had problems with Manuskript, but then I don't write anywhere near as much as I tell myself I should.
I also once paid for Scrivener, back when I still used windows regularly.
I seem to have a history of looking for an interesting piece of writing software, and then using it to write a chapter or two, then nothing more.
Another fun writing program (that goes to the other UI extreme) is FocusWriter. I actually managed four or five chapters of a story using it.
Ooh, FocusWriter is a good one. Nowadays I tend to avoid the ultra minimalist ones, but when I used Focus writer it always worked well.
I'm glad to see FocusWriter is still being updated, I used that a ton while I was in college. Great developer.
oh well there goes any interest I had in it lol
pwa?
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Sounds like an SBC ...
Just as I suspected
Requires Google Chrome, Google Drive? No thanks...
The repos are under https://github.com/wavemakercards, in case anyone else had a bit of trouble finding them.
I saw this on here and it's a really impressive application but my problem with it is that the saving of the files seems to be in some completely unique format and even though you can export it it doesn't really feel good to have to do that with something where you'd spend a lot of time writing.
I had a really good time over the past day and a half spending time writing in the application and I found it fantastic from that standpoint but I have already lost some of the work I've done because you can only have one open "project" at a time and you have to export it and even though it seems to save it it encourages installing as an application so there's problems here that really do need to be addressed so just kind of be forwarned that you're gonna have to export and save frequently, and it's confusing.