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Distractionless Writing Tool

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Closed magoz closed 6 years ago

magoz commented 7 years ago

Add keyboard sounds when you type. It helps to focus. A good example is Ommwriter.
Add the option of playing some background sounds. Maybe some of your songs? It also helps focus, but I'm sure it's not for everyone, so having an option to enable/disable will be necessary. Same as the keyboard sounds.
Add Finder/Dropbox integration, so you can drag a whole folder and find all your documents in the sidebar. I like how Ulysses does it. Perhaps you can add the tree of files at the bottom of the sidebar? It would be very convenient to switch between files.
Markdown support. I'm aware it's not compatible with your current syntax (markers vs h1 and h2), but maybe could be a way to make it work? Markdown is super useful!
Export options. Export file as formatted html/rich text. If you consider the Markdown support it will be useful to be able to export it as a formatted file.

neauoire commented 7 years ago

AH! Well you're going to be happy to know that project mode(drag folders, etc..) is almost ready :3 I'll see what I can do for audio. Thanks for the idea!

magoz commented 7 years ago

Wow, thanks @neauoire !! I've added more suggestions, I accidentally published my comment when I was writing it. Thanks again for your work, I've just become an Engineer patron. Happy to support! :-)

neauoire commented 7 years ago

As for templating stuff, Rekka(for whom I'm currently building this atm), will soon need formatting options to render her novel into a formatted PDF file. My plan is to add templating stuff explicitly for books, so page breaks and so on.

More on that, very soon :)

insanity54 commented 7 years ago

+1 for Markdown support.

vitordino commented 7 years ago

I understand that Left was build to fill the gap that most markdown editors fail — on printed matter and extended formatting options.

But I still see advantages on using something, at least markdown compatible. There are some extended markdown syntaxes, for example used in iA Writer + external templating, that thinks on print+digital documents output.

So I believe that, maybe, there is a solution to both problems. (adopting markdown compatible + a nice/custom document output)

neauoire commented 7 years ago

That's the plan, for the release of our upcoming book I will need to have Left support templating options for print and output preview. At the moment I haven't spent that much time implementing rich text preview within the editor, I rather prefer Left to remain a basic text editor for now. But someone wants to go ahead and PR some basic Markdown tools, I'll merge them :)

neauoire commented 6 years ago

Implemented open multiple files!