Jottr is a simple, opinionated, plain text editor I developed primarily for my personal use. It's mainly intended for writers, researchers and journalists or anyone who needs a simple, distraction-free tool for writing. It's cross-platform and can be used on Linux, macOS or Windows. The app is released under the GPL v3 license.
It has the following features:
- Dark, Light and Sepia (paper-like) themes
- Focus mode - Distraction-free writing made easy by hiding all UI elements (can be toggled with mouse or a keyboard shortcut)
- Search for any word without leaving the editor using the integrated web browser
- Snippets - Save any word or block of text as snippets and quickly insert using mouse or through typing snippet name
- User dictionary
- Inline auto-completion for words added to user dictionary
- Add custom search websites to your right-click menu
- Custom font for editor
- Zoom controls
RPM and DEB packages are provided at the project's github page.
Feel free to share your feedback/thoughts.
4 Comments
maxprime@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
No hate, but I laughed out loud when I read distraction free and saw that the first screenshot shows an embedded browser.
Like, I get that there is value in having an embedded browser but if it’s there then I would not consider the editor to be distraction free.
modcolocko@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y
considering that the intended use case is for research, the web is going to be used either way, so it’s better to not have the distraction of a full web browser, which is exactly what “distraction free” is all about
mfat@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
When you enable the Focus Mode (fir distraction-free writing), the browser is automatically toggled off.
someacnt@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
How did you manage to develop the application? Would have taken tons of time.