Zettlr
1.4.1
Zettlr
1.4.1Markdown editor.
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.
What's new in Zettlr
Version 1.4.1:
- A brand new Table Editor
- Readability Mode (Demo)
- Install and update translations with one click
- Faster and better citations
- A new Theme: Karl-Marx-Stadt
- Filter your tags in the tag-cloud
- RMarkdown file support
- Massive rewrite of the core for much more speed
- Regular Expression searches (Introduction)
- Optional line:column indicator
- Attention: To move files out of the app, you'll need to hold Alt or Ctrl when initiating a file-drag. You can release the key as soon as the drag has started.
Requirements for Zettlr
- Intel 64
- OS X 10.10.0 or later
Zettlr Screenshots
Install with MacUpdate
2 Zettlr Reviews
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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).