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I Found a Local-First Writing Tool

I Found a Local-First Writing Tool - Lemmy Today

I’m testing out this tool called Writality. Compared to Obsidian, you don’t need specific plugins for something like this, and instead, you just need this thing. By the way, their pricing page is a joke, basically showing that it’s free to use. The developer recommends storing your vault on someone else’s computer (even though that’s optional). By the way, this uses no AI, and the individual behind it is female, 25. That would be Bara, who’s the one behind this entire project. On a side note: Everything from my feddit.online account had been completely wiped, because the admins decided to delete my account. I was given no reasoning for it whatsoever, and I don’t know what part of the ToS I violated. I need proof of ToS violations, and this was shady at best.

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Unattributed 𓂃✍︎Jun 16

Looks interesting… The thing is, I am finding that the Obsidian ecosystem is making for a much more flexible writing environment than similar tools. (Once I am settled a bit more, I will explain some of the things that I am doing with Obsidian.)

For now, I am going to give Writality a look and see what I think of it.

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Mugita Sokio Jun 17

I’m surprised you settled into Obsidian a bit already. I’ve been finding other things that could potentially be used for those who don’t like Obsidian, as I want to be able to provide options.

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Unattributed 𓂃✍︎Jun 17

I have something of a love/hate relationship with Obsidian.

I love the editor, the only one doing a decent WYSIWG editor in the style of ancient MS-DOS style applications (ie, reveal markup when you are actively in it – ala PC Write from back in the 1980s). Really love the properties handling, and the recently added Bases feature. And, all of this, with directories of plan ol’ Markdown files, which I can still use all my other tools on without having issues is excellent

The extension system has made it into a highly customizable environment (just the addition of Notebook Navigator is amazing), and does a lot to integrate into my environment. (Support for things like git and pandoc are excellent.) This is kind of walking the line between the love and hate side of things. While I love the extensions that I am using, sometimes there are issues with extensions that aren’t being kept up… For example, the write.as extension appears to be borked, and even if it weren’t it doesn’t have support for some things that I really need from it (like snap.as support).

And there’s the hate site: I hate that it’s not open source. I hate that it’s written in javascript… etc.

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Mugita Sokio

Writality is also proprietary, and looks to be an Electron application as well. Despite that, just like Obsidian, it’s also local-first, not requiring any syncing to someone else’s computer.

I’ll have to look at the software George R. R. Martin used to write the original Game of Thrones, which was apparently Wordstar 4 (though a different writer used Wordstar 7).