Jottr is a cross-platform plain text editor focused on usability and speed, designed for writers, journalists and researchers.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Integrated web browser for quickly looking up selected text in various sources, including user-defined websites.
- A “Focus Mode”, for distraction-free writing.
- Two methods to quickly inserting frequently used text blocks: add words to your dictionary or create text snippets and insert with custom keywords.
- Smart, intuitive autocompletion with tab key.
- Themes: choose between, light, dark and Sepia (paper-like) themes for the editor.
- Familiar, intuitive keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+= to make text bigger, for example).
- Cross-platform software – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/mfat/jottr
Support:
Developer: Mehdi
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Jottr is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Simple GUI Based Text Editors | |
|---|---|
| Notepad Next | Cross-platform text and source code editor |
| Pulsar | Hyper-hackable text editor |
| Lite XL | Lightweight cross-platform text editor derived from lite |
| GNOME Text Editor | Default text editor for the GNOME desktop environment |
| CudaText | Replacement for the discontinued SynWrite |
| Pluma | Powerful text editor for MATE |
| Mousepad | Simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment |
| FeatherPad | Lightweight Qt plain-text editor |
| Nota | Browse, create, and edit text files |
| CorePad | Document editor for C Suite, a minimalistic application suite |
| xed | Small and lightweight text editor |
| gedit | Small and lightweight text editor for GNOME |
| Jottr | Designed for writers, journalists and researchers |
| Kate | Multi-document editor |
| typobuster | Simplified text editor with transformations and automatic correction |
| Howl | General purpose editor |
| Janus | Simple native Linux notepad meant for text editing |
| Webkit Word | Text editor built with GTK4/Libadwaita |
| v2 | Local-first rich-text editor with versioning capabilities |
| Mini Text | Very small and basic text editor |
| Airpad | Basic, generic graphical text editor |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
 Explore our comprehensive directory of recommended free and open source software. Our carefully curated collection spans every major software category.This directory is part of our ongoing series of informative articles for Linux enthusiasts. It features hundreds of detailed reviews, along with open source alternatives to proprietary solutions from major corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Autodesk. You’ll also find interesting projects to try, hardware coverage, free programming books and tutorials, and much more. Discovered a useful open source Linux program that we haven’t covered yet? Let us know by completing this form. |
I like its focus mode. Useful for me.