Skribisto is a writing environment for novels and other long-form projects. A project can contain several books together with chapters, scenes, notes and research, allowing manuscript material and its supporting information to remain in one workspace.
The current application is a native Rust desktop program and stores prose in Djot, a readable plain-text format. Its workflow extends beyond drafting into structural planning, revision, collaboration with editors and recovery of earlier material.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Arrange books, parts, chapters, scenes, notes and research through flexible binders.
- Attach a synopsis to each piece of writing without placing it in the manuscript text.
- Read chapters, parts or an entire book continuously using streams.
- Use corkboard cards and overview tables to examine and rearrange manuscript structure.
- Work with split views and multiple tabs, each with configurable typography.
- Track writing sessions, word counts, milestones, targets and planned days off.
- Maintain threaded margin comments and manuscript-wide footnotes.
- Build a story bible for people, places and objects, including aliases and scene references.
- Search and replace across the entire project.
- Recover deleted material through trash, backups and version history.
- Import material from Plume Creator, Markdown, DOCX and ODT.
- Export manuscripts to DOCX, ODT, EPUB, PDF, HTML, Markdown, Djot, LaTeX and plain text.
- Use screen readers through the application’s native accessibility tree.
Website: github.com/jacquetc/skribisto
Support:
Developer: Cyril Jacquet
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Skribisto is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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Hi Steve. Skribisto is cross-platform as it’s also available for MS Windows.
Merry Xmas.
Merry Christmas to you Torin!
Thanks, as you say, there’s cross-platform support. It runs under macOS too. Article updated.