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Jottr is a free, cross-platform, small and fast text editor released under GPL v3 license.

It has cool features including:

  • An integrated web browser for quickly looking up selected text in various sources, including user-defined websites

  • A "Focus Mode", for distraction-free writing

  • Two methods to quickly inserting frequently used text blocks: add words to your dictionary or create text snippets

  • Smart, intuitive autocompletion with tab key

  • Themes: choose between, light, dark and Sepia themes for the editor

  • Familiar, intuitive keyboard shortcuts (ctrl++ to make text bigger, for example)

The app is can be installed from Flathub and is also available as RPM and DEB packages. (It will soon be listed on flathub)

Jottr can also run on MacOS and Windows.

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[–] p3e7@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mainly use Obsidian. Anyone who tried both? How do both of them stack up against each other? Is it worth to switch? What are your experiences? Personally, I don’t wanna miss all my beautiful plug-ins from Obsidian.

[–] badcodecat@lemux.minnix.dev 3 points 1 day ago

for one, obsidian is closed source

[–] mfat@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is nowhere near Obsidian in terms of features. And this is not a notes app. This is a plain text editor.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its only free for those three groups of people?

[–] mfat@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

No it's free for everyone :)