Name: Zettlr
Rating: 4.3125 (4 reviews)

Zettlr overview

Zettlr is a reliable companion for writing scientific texts and taking notes. It is made for academics in the humanities and arts and is intended to keep your content apart from your design, but close to the notes you take. To reach this goal, Zettlr incorporates several important features:

File-agnostic editing. Zettlr does not store any information about your files, except in your files. This way you can always switch to and from Zettlr. Every file you see inside the preview pane corresponds to a file on your disk. With no special additions that might render the use of your files difficult for other editors.
Zettelkasten-Methods implemented directly into the app. With Zettlr, you can link files and searches using "Wiki-Links" in the format [[your search text|@ID:ID]], give IDs by typing @ID:Your-ID-Here and tag your files using Twitter-like hashtags: #hashtag. Holding down the Alt-key and clicking on links will try to open exact-match files and also initiate searches, while Alt-clicks on tags will simply initiate searches. More features are likely to come.
A directory list. This list contains all open directories and files. You can open new directories by pressing Cmd/Ctrl+O. New files can be opened simply by double clicking them in your file browser or by dragging them onto the app. Every time you start the app, all previously opened paths will be re-loaded.
A preview pane that lists all the files that are inside the currently selected directory and separates them by their subdirectory. Just click on a file to open it in …
… the editor, which takes the most space and is the crucial component that actually makes Zettlr an editor. You are able to write Markdown-files in the area, a slim text format that keeps formatting to a bare minimum.
Exporting options. Using the open source software pandoc and LaTeX, Zettlr enables you to export all files on the fly in a variety of formats; currently HTML, DOCX, ODT and PDF. Just open a file and press Cmd/Ctrl+E.
Searching. Zettlr enables you to quickly search through your files to find what you are looking for in a fraction of the time you'd need if you store all your information in several word documents that you'd have to open and search.
A toolbar containing all functions in handy button-form.

Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.

What’s new in version 2.1.2

Updated on Jan 14 2022

GUI and Functionality:

New Feature: You now have more fine-grained control over how your files are displayed: You can now select if the filename is always used or a title or first heading level 1 is used (if applicable)
New Feature: You can now also fold nested lists
New Feature: You can now choose to display the file extensions of Markdown
New Feature: You can now choose to always only link using filenames
The Vim input mode of the editor started working again, so we are re-enabling it with this update
Fixed an error that would cause the global search to malfunction if you followed a link which then started a global search while the file manager was hidden
Removed an unused preference
Rearranged some preferences
On Windows, tabbed windows will automatically hide their labels if the window becomes too narrow
Reinstated the info on what variables you could use in the Zettelkasten generator
Zettlr displays info text below some preferences again
Citations are now first-class citizens and got their own preferences tab
Fixed a small error that would close additional files when you renamed a file that was also currently open
Fixed the context menu not showing during a full text search on macOS
When something goes wrong during opening of a new workspace or root file, the error messages will now be more meaningful
Small improvement that will not detect Setext headings level 2 without a following empty line. This prevents some instances of data loss where users forget this empty line and thus accidentally create a valid simple table
Fixed an issue where the indentation of wrapped lines would look off after changing the theme or modifying the editor font via custom CSS
Fixed the vim mode cursor being barely visible in dark mode
Done task list items will now be stroked out faster

Under the Hood:

Convert the MarkdownEditor to ES modules and TypeScript
Make the dot-notation rule optional

View older Zettlr updates

Information

License

Free

Size

128.6 MB

Developer’s website

https://zettlr.com/

Downloads

2479

App requirements

Intel 64
OS X 10.11.0 or later
Version for Apple Silicon

0.0

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Michael-Vilain

Dec 27 2021

2.0.3

2.0

Version: 2.0.3

V 2.1 still crashes on 10.13. They've isolated the problem with the Electron framework. Sadly, I've supported other electron-based projects that were orphaned by them. So this is a hard-pass for me. Luckily FSNotes works great on MacOS. Don't need android, Linux, or Windows for now.

Nov 14 2021

Still crashes on 10.13

Ptk3

Jul 26 2019

1.3.0

4.0

Version: 1.3.0

Zettlr is incredibly powerful : you can create files and write them in GFM markdown (that means table of content and footnote, tables), plus extras, like folding text (really useful when you write long papers).
It uses Latex and Pandoc parser to export in a huge range of format (including .docx or .odt, of course PDF, ePub and other text format), and academics can use Zotero to manage bibliography.
You can manage extra folders without moving them (excellent: you store your files and folders wherever you want, just drag and drop them to Zettlr), and transform folder to project, meaning you can export a project as an only one merged file).
I just miss the preview feature, which is not fully implemented, but I asked the dev and I'm sure it will come soon.
This app is a gem, the dev is open and responsive, it's just an incredible free and open source app, as powetful as Ulysses, but you're not trapped in a subscription model, and the arrogance of the devs.

I recommand it to any one who want to manage a big writing project, like a paper, a novel, a bunch of short stories, a book (scientific books are welcome, as it can deal with latex and mathjax syntax).

Marcelo Leite

Apr 18 2019

1.2.3

3.5

Version: 1.2.3

Do not have android version?