For those who do write novels, books etc. What software do you use? What format? FOSS or proprietary?
www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview it’s proprietary, but it has a lot of features geared towards writing novels/screenplays/etc
Software for writing
Submitted 1 year ago by admin@lm.boing.icu to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 1 year ago
Scrivener is a fantastic tool! It’s a shame that it will likely not be open sourced but I will give the devil its due credit. Scrivener is brilliant for authorship.
Gur814@kbin.social 1 year ago
I second this. Scrivener is a godsend once you get the hang of the interface. It's so flexible and easy to stay organized with.
rambos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Im not writing books, but check out bookstack
housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 1 year ago
Bookstack is an excellent tool. Was it originally conceived for authors? I’ve only used it as a knowledge management system. In fact, I stood up a Bookstack instance at work to document procedures for my fellow desktop support engineers.
morpheus17pro@lemmy.cat 1 year ago
I don’t write novels, but lately found apostrophe (gnome) and ghostwriter (KDE) which are intended to write using markdown, and have a UI intended to allow you to focus on writing. You can later use git to manage versions and backups (in a remote repository).
If you want something more focused on relationships, and regarding the answer from another user suggesting Obsidian, you might use also logseq, but I didn’t use it yet (but hear a lot of positive vibes around it).
brenticus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been using Obsidian lately. Proprietary with an open plugin ecosystem. Works well, makes it easy for me to integrate with other notes and such, but I haven’t figured out a good workflow for exporting work for submission. That said, it’s all markdown and there are lots of plugins for stuff like that, so it’s probably mostly just that I haven’t tried very hard.
In the past I’ve used Google Docs (proprietary), Scrivener (proprietary), Manuskript (open), Zim (open), and probably a few I’m forgetting. Really it just comes down to what you’re looking for out of the software, there are lots of options.
The biggest thing to keep in mind from a self-hosting perspective is local storage and easy backups under your own control. I use syncthing to keep my whole Obsidian vault synced across a few devices; for some software that’s easier or harder due to file formats and accessibility.