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Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing

66 pointsby sohkamyungyesterday at 10:58 PM14 commentsview on HN

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tlhuntertoday at 2:17 AM

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

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aleda145yesterday at 11:53 PM

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

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buggylearningtoday at 3:43 AM

Can I get it as a vscode plugin?

blacksmith_tbtoday at 12:07 AM

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...)

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gataneyesterday at 11:56 PM

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

dualboottoday at 1:51 AM

This looks very inspiring! Thank you for sharing it!

pooploop64today at 1:49 AM

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.

citizenkeenyesterday at 11:54 PM

Is this Scrivener but with markdown?

personjerryyesterday at 11:40 PM

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