Jottr is a simple, opinionated, plain text editor I developed primarily for my personal use. It's mainly intended for writers, researchers and journalists or anyone who needs a simple, distraction-free tool for writing. It's cross-platform and can be used on Linux, macOS or Windows. The app is released under the GPL v3 license.
It has the following features:
- Dark, Light and Sepia (paper-like) themes
- Focus mode - Distraction-free writing made easy by hiding all UI elements (can be toggled with mouse or a keyboard shortcut)
- Search for any word without leaving the editor using the integrated web browser
- Snippets - Save any word or block of text as snippets and quickly insert using mouse or through typing snippet name
- User dictionary
- Inline auto-completion for words added to user dictionary
- Add custom search websites to your right-click menu
- Custom font for editor
- Zoom controls
RPM and DEB packages are provided at the project's github page.
Feel free to share your feedback/thoughts.
No hate, but I laughed out loud when I read distraction free and saw that the first screenshot shows an embedded browser.
Like, I get that there is value in having an embedded browser but if it’s there then I would not consider the editor to be distraction free.
considering that the intended use case is for research, the web is going to be used either way, so it’s better to not have the distraction of a full web browser, which is exactly what “distraction free” is all about
When you enable the Focus Mode (fir distraction-free writing), the browser is automatically toggled off.