I am a bit of a cataloger when it comes to writing resources, so here are some of them. I haven’t tried all of these myself, so please let me know if I get anything wrong. If people find this helpful, I have world building and editing related ones I can share too.

  • 🆓yWriter: It is not the most sleek looking program, but it works.
  • 🆓Google Docs
  • 🆓Slugline
  • 🆓Highland
  • 🆓 Wavemaker
  • 🆓 Joplin: The cloud hosting does cost money. Open source alternative to Evernote.
  • 🆓 Only Office: This one is good for people who want a private cloud-hosted alternative to Google Docs. It is open-source.
  • 🆓 Obsidian: I have started using this for world building, but many authors use it for writing. Within it, you can create your own wiki, and view connections in a cool graph. It is open source, and has many plug-ins you can add.
  • 🆓Anytype: The program is free and private, but for the cloud, you have 1GB of storage, then you’ll need a plan for more.
  • 🆓 Manuskript: I haven’t tried this one, but it looks similar to yWriter, but with some different features
  • 🆓 Bibisco: A writing and note organizer program with timelines, mind-maps, and more.
  • 🆓 Reedsy Book Editor: It is online(not self-hosted/a program download)
  • 🆓 SmartEdit: a MSWord alternative for writers that is supposed to have several helpful editing features.
  • 🆓 Quoll Writer: Open-source, and has several unique features, such as “warm up session.”
  • 🆓 Trillium: Self-hosted and open-source.
  • Plot Factory
  • 4thewords: It turns writing into a game, where you send your game character on a monster-fighting quest by writing.
  • NovelPad:
  • Plottr:
  • Living Writer:
  • Squibler:
  • Notion: Free limited version
  • Scrivener:
  • Atticus:
  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Great list and definitely a lot of titles I’ve never heard of and will look into. Thanks for this

    Obsidian is freely available, openly shared, uses markdown that is easily accessible, content can be exported and shared onto other programs because it is only markdown text which is easily readable

    … but it is NOT OPEN SOURCE