cckuok/norka

Continuous text editor for Linux

Norka

Norka

Continuous text editing for everyone

While I'm not the UX-man and it's just a hobby, I try to create visually appealing applications. And Norka is one of my trials to create a cozy text editor for GNOME and elementary OS exactly.

Markdown for markup; No files until you need it; Your notes always saved and can be exported in a moment.

Features

• Markdown support
• Text search
• Autosave
• Document previews in a grid
• Reading time
• Drag-n-drop import local files
• Spell checking
• Export to files
• Export to Medium.com
• Export to Write.as
• Different color schemes for editor
• Document archiving
• And of course, you can delete them permanently

Read more on tenderowl.com/norka.

Installation

Flathub

Snap Store

elementary OS AppCenter

Tech part

Text editor built for GNOME on top of PyGObject, Python 3 and GTK+ 3. Project under development so it will be massively changing in time :)

Building

Build time requirements:

• meson (>= 0.49)
• python3 (>= 3.6)
• intltool
• libgranite-dev
• libgtk-3-dev (>= 3.10)
• libgtkspell3-3-dev
• libgtksourceview-3.0-dev (>= 3.24.3)
• libwebkit2gtk-4.0
• python3-gi
• python3-gi-cairo
• gir1.2-gtkspell3-3.0
• gir1.2-gtksource-3.0
• gir1.2-granite-1.0
• gir1.2-webkit2-4.0

Run meson build to configure the build environment. Change to the build directory and run ninja to build:

meson build --prefix=/usr
ninja -C build

To install, use ninja install, then execute with com.github.tenderowl.norka:

sudo ninja -C build install
com.github.tenderowl.norka

Support

If you want to support me

Afterword

That's all. If you want to see any features or push any changes - just submit a PR or create an issue.

Brought to you by Tender Owl 🦉