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Zettlr
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-Hereand tag your files using Twitter-like hashtags:#hashtag. Holding down theAlt-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
pandocandLaTeX, 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 pressCmd/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 2.2.4
Updated on Mar 07 2022
GUI and Functionality:
- New Feature: You can now switch between zooming the whole GUI or just the editor font size when using the zoom menu items/shortcuts
- Restores the display of links in the related files section of the sidebar
- Differentiate between inbound, outbound, and bidirectional links in the related files section
- Fix related files display and link reporting
- Added a smooth scrolling effect for the tab bar
- Added classes in order to conditionally style the related files section based on the type of relation, the classes are tags if the relation is based on keywords, inbound for incoming links, outbound for outgoing links, and bidirectional for links from and to the said file
- Clicking on math now places the cursor correctly, reducing friction
- Select the image markup when clearing a rendered image by clicking on it
- Image captions do not disappear anymore while you are editing it, even if you move the mouse out of the image area
- Improve icon alignment in the related files section
- Relaxed conditions for emphasis rendering by just excluding word-characters
- Tab characters are no longer detected as spelling errors
- You can now choose to indent using tab characters instead of spaces
- Do not close the file left to a new usaved file upon saving the file
- Fixed a weird race condition in which the file manager would remain ignorant of an in-memory file after it has been saved to disk
- Changes to your files should now be detected immediately also on macOS
- Fixed a bug that would disable both types of magic quotes (single + double) if you disabled only one type
- Improve styling of progress bars on all platforms
Under the Hood:
- Resolve links on-demand in the link provider
- Factor out the clickAndClear functionality to its own helper
- Improve editor image CSS
- Factor out the checks to see if we can render some element to unify behavior across rendering plugins
- Update most pure Node scripts from CommonJS to ESM in order to support the new versions of csso, chalk, and got
- FINALLY managed to get fsevents to run! After about three years or so.
- Add support for JabRef fileDirectory-style comments
Information
App requirements
- Intel 64
- OS X 10.11.0 or later
- Version for Apple Silicon
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Dec 27 2021
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.
Jul 26 2019
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).
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).
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