robotlolita/raven

(hiatus) Raven is a minimal, distraction-free text editor with good typography.

Hi, I'm Quil✨

I'm a programmer, artist, writer, and programming language designer.
I love cats, magical girls, pastels, and cute things.

Quil is pronounced as the English letter "Q".
Or /kjuː/ in IPA.

raven's Issues

Save stories as Markdown

App.quit() should wait until stories are saved

i18n

Use the right newline delimiter for each platform in Markdown exports

Currently we just save everything with \n, this doesn't really look that great on Windows, but...

Store novels in a folder

Format should be something like:

+ /slugified-novel-name-{GUID}
|--o novel.json
|--o novel.md
|--o cover.png
|--+ /research (and other folders)

novel.json should have the following format:

type NovelInfo where
  title :: String
  lastUpdated :: Date
  author :: String
  tags :: [String]

autocomplete character/place names

Order novels from most recently updated to oldest

Allow user to change the novel folder

Bug when closing App

Hey @robotlolita I started an Novel and typed some stuff then I opened the sidebar/menu and closed.

The App crashed on close click.. here's the screenshot.

Keyboard shortcuts

Force pasted content to be plain-text

Otherwise formatting from the copied text will carry over and mess up the whole editor.

Also: http://codebits.glennjones.net/editing/getclipboarddata.htm

Make time jumps/scene jumps obvious.

Double paragraphs should have some sort of visual distinction more than just whitespace.

Make Raven frameless

Because window decorations are uuuuuuuugly

Allow editing story metadata

Table of Contents and overview mode

To make it easier to navigate through the document once it gets large. Overview mode would be similar to Sublime's.

Support multiple instances of Raven

Currently this is not possible because:

1. node-webkit
2. novel saving isn't atomic, AND it'd be hell if two instances try to change the same novel :x

spellchecking

node-webkit so far doesn't support this natively.

Dropbox integration

Ideally, the software would automatically save the texts on Dropbox, and provide a nice interface for picking up content from Dropbox to work on. Similar integrations could be provided to other back-end storages, though these are not of much value to me.

Zenpen needs to be completely rewritten

It has too many global assumptions that don't work for this project.

Missing dependencies

• shoutout

Ignore folders that don't have a `novel.json` file.

"New Chapter" in outline should move the focus to the end of the document

Display the word count of the selection alongside the total count

Auto update

Word/Time goals

• Allow one to set a number of words to be written from there on;
• Allow one to define a number of minutes to write, then provide statistics of things written in that time;
• Allow one to set a number of words to be written overall;

Support exporting to PDF

Allow medium-style annotations

With different kinds of annotations for different types of remarks, and the possibility to filter through them

node-webkit depends on an old version of libudev

As explained in nwjs/nw.js#770, Chromium depeds on an old version of the libudev ABI, and newer distros don't ship with that anymore. This is a problem because we caaaaan't really fix this.

The current workaround is to symlink the newer ABI to the older one, change the LD_LIBRARY path to include that shared object, and then run the application, which is kiiiiinda awful and potentially dangerous (but seems to work fine and Chrome runs with it).

Anyway, tracking nwjs/nw.js#770 to wait for a definitive solution for this, but I do assume it's ways off for now and we'll just have to roll with the workaround =/

Support exporting to webpage

Find a good icon for the app

Support exporting to Doc{,x}

Use an unique name for the novel's folder

Could probably be solved by just appending a UUID to the slugified novel name. We also need to worry about path size on Windows.

Currently if a novel slugifies to the same name, you get things overwritten :x

Make saving the novel an atomic operation

Things can fail in the middle right now and that's not good

Always show novel and section title in heading

Search/replace

Focus mode

Allow importing novels into Raven

• HTML
• Markdown
• TXT
• Docx

Stylus not compiling jsk-grid

Use better icons for the toolbar buttons

Focus mode

Improve Zenpen's typography

Transitions for Load Book / Create Book screens

versioning and diffing

We should allow something like Mac's time machine by automatic versioning. Then versions can be compared and restored in a diff screen with a timeline to see changes over time

Allow changing the directory where novels are stored

This should also migrate novels from the old directory to the new one.

Windows 8 SmartScreen alerts for "unrecognized app"

The package should be digitally certified and distributed from the Windows store (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/08/14/microsoft-smartscreen-amp-extended-validation-ev-code-signing-certificates.aspx). I'm not really sure if I want to bother with this, seems to be too much work.

As a workaround, people can always click "More info" and choose "Run anyways":

dark mode

Use a novel excerpt when no cover is available

Make all fonts local

Recalculate toolbar position when showing sidebar

Make novels listed bigger