Fidus Writer 4.1 is out! 🎉
🔒 2FA & brute-force protection
🔐 Experimental end-to-end encryption
📚 Import from 10+ bibliography formats + extract citations from DOCX (Zotero, Mendeley, Citavi, EndNote) and ODT (Zotero, Mendeley, JabRef)
📤 Export to GitHub, GitLab & Forgejo (DOCX, ODT, native, ++)
📦 New Debian packages
Free, open source, built for academics.
https://www.fiduswriter.org
@paulasimoes It looks quite cool! Very minimalist, and the context-dependent formatting menu is neat. Great initiative, I hope they open more broadly soon or there will be hosted options.
But (at least at the moment), I don't really see what Docs does better than, say, #Cryptpad's "rich text" or #FidusWriter.
They did the (relatively) easy parts, as far as I can tell. The hard part is things like track changes and comments, or bibliographic references and Zotero integration.
Fidus Writer 3.11.11 is not a major release, but it brings one of the most requested features is finally here: the ability to export comments (and their responses) to DOCX and ODT files! 🎉
Comments are exported directly to ODT files, and also in most cases also to DOCX files. However, the DOCX format doesn't allow comments on text inside of footnotes. So those comments have been moved to the footnote reference. 👀
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