{"id":5410,"date":"2021-06-17T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2021-06-16T16:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T10:53:39","slug":"writing-markdown-opensource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/17\/writing-markdown-opensource\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Resource: Write a Book with a Markdown Text Editor novelWriter"},"content":{"rendered":"

novelWriter<\/a> is a markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents.<\/p>\n

Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax that makes documents readable without tags ( text modifiers like lists, bold, italics, etc are used). We use Markdown in Facebook message, Skype, Slack, Trello etc.<\/p>\n

Novelwriter can run on Linux, Windows and macOS, and users have tested it on other platforms too.<\/p>\n

What Does novelWriter Help Writers With?<\/h2>\n

novelWriter allows for easy organization of text files and notes, with a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis, and cross-referencing between files. The plain text storage is suitable for version control software.\u00a0 Version control software helps with ‘versioning’ of documents and helps keeps track of every modification to the doc so that we can go and see the last series of changes that were made.<\/p>\n

Other features include:<\/p>\n