Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing(brie.gay)
71 pointsby sohkamyung6 hours ago10 comments
  • tlhunter2 hours ago
    I'm a fan of Manuskript on Linux. It's similar but has more features and, IMO, looks better: https://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/
    • KennyBlankenan hour ago
      Better documentation (well, actually, more like documentation at all), 100+ contributors, 10 years of contributions.

      There's a lot of general hand-waving about its featureset and whatnot - and an odd jab about non-English support - but no explanation of how non-English language support is lacking in other projects and why hers is better. And am I really supposed to believe that her project has better non-English support than than something that has 100+ contributors over ten years?

  • aleda1455 hours ago
    I recently picked up writing short stories again. I briefly looked at different editors, but ended up just doing it in vscode (daily driver). I'll make sure to look at cheese paper for the next one, looks like it has some cool features!

    A feature that I have been dreaming about is making an editor that treats each paragraph like a unit of work, and the full text is created by linking together different paragraphs. That way you can easily try different ways without deleting any text. Sort of like nodes in a graph.

    And here's my a corporate themed short story: https://dahl.dev/capacity

    • sharkjacobsan hour ago
      I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "unit of work" but I really like writing in Bike[1] for this reason, it's a hybrid text editor/outliner. It is simply my favorite rich text editor and the outliner functions provide really good affordances for organizing and reorganizing paragraphs.

      [1] https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/

    • loneboatan hour ago
      Is this deliberately borrowing from Herman Melvile's "Bartleby the Scrivener"? If so it might be worth mentioning, rather than just referring to it as "my short story", since it's a nearly identical retelling of it.
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  • blacksmith_tb4 hours ago
    Maybe it would explain itself better if that said "specifically designed for writing fiction"? (lots of other sorts of writing don't have characters, for example...)
    • hoppyhoppy24 hours ago
      The first sentence of the first non-bolded paragraph of the webpage is:

      >Cheese Paper is a text editor specifically designed for writing, particularly fiction.

      I don't think the HN submitter is the author of the software, but if you're just referring to the HN submission title then maybe they'll take you up on your suggestion.

    • KennyBlankenan hour ago
      I think it would explain itself better if it explained precisely what makes it better or different from what already exists; Manuskript (open source) and Scrivner (closed source.)
  • buggylearningan hour ago
    Can I get it as a vscode plugin?
  • gatane5 hours ago
    This looks very interesting! I liked the menu for characters and worldbuilding, I should try this soon!
  • dualboot3 hours ago
    This looks very inspiring! Thank you for sharing it!
  • citizenkeen5 hours ago
    Is this Scrivener but with markdown?
  • pooploop643 hours ago
    Another version of this idea that's been around for a while is CherryTree. I would use it a lot more, but there's not really a way to use your notebook on mobile due to it using a special database format that nobody cares about. I love the idea of this program's data instead being a regular folder of regular plaintext files that you can do anything with. In a perfect world everything would be like this, where your files are just your files, and client programs just help you use those files in more effective ways.
  • personjerry5 hours ago
    As opposed to the other text editors, which are designed primarily for playing Nethack