Apart from normal editors such as LibreOffice or Word, do you use programs specifically designed to keep track of the characters, places and chapters of your novels or stories? I have never felt the need. I have found OmniaWrite, for example, but I have not tried it yet. Does anyone use it or similar ones? Does it really help?
I use scrivener. What I love is that I can write scene by scene and also have a place to store notes and such.
I’ve also tried a free alternative: novelwriter, and really liked it. I can do certain things easier in Scrivener, so I went back 😃
I use notion, mindly, transno and Emacs to write
Except for emacs, all the others are new to me. Thank you!
Yw, mindly is just mindmaps, transno is anotation that can be seen as mindmaps (both phone apps) and Notion is… uh, complicated to explain but is good for projects
Normally I only use Zim. It fits perfectly for me, because I need the documents in markdown format.
This is new to me as are the others suggested. Very interesting!
I use Manuskript, which is a pretty nice FOSS writing program. It lets you define a whole encyclopedia about all aspects of your story (characters, locations, magic, technology, etc.) and breaks the whole thing up into scenes that can be reordered at will, put into folders to create larger sections (chapters, or even sub-chapters), etc. And, when you’re done, you can have it export the project (any/all of it as you wish) to just about any format: text, Word, PDF, whatever.
I’ve also been toying around a bit with Obsidian. It’s not really meant as a writing app, but you can definitely do deep outlines as well as all of the same type of encyclopedia/wiki setup to help you keep track of everything.
To be honest, I just stick to plain ol’ LibreOffice. I use folders to organize notes, which isn’t perfect but works for me.
As my book setting is doubling as a campaign setting, I am using Kanka, but it’s also a patreon reward to get a link to my world-building there, as I’m doing Serial Story writing over on Royal Road.
I also use Grammarly as a browser plugin, so I finish my chapter in Libre without being bugged by it, then go through and decide on its suggestions all at once after I paste the next chapter into the site’s editor.
Yeah, I’m using Scrivener. Before that, yWriter, basically a clone with less features, but free. Loving them both, even though I’m only using Scrivener these days.
I would have a look at Manuskript.
However, I tend to write with whatever’s in front of me. Currently using WordGrinder for one thing, Joplin for another, and Pages '09 on my sixteen-year-old MacBook.
