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Anton Medviediev

Pencil - An intelligent writing environment for novelists.

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Pencil is an online writing environment that uses artificial intelligence to help writers improve and organize their workflow.

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Anton Medviediev
Maker
Hi everyone! Tony from Pencil here. I’m really excited to launch my app on Product Hunt. Some key features include: •Intelligent writing assistance •Project notes •Tracking for characters and locations •Writing goals and stats •Chapter snapshots •Distraction-free zen mode •Export to txt, doc or pdf I would love to hear your feedback and I’m ready to answer any questions.
Eugene Kalnyk
@anton_medviediev looks awesome! Zen mode is pure love!
Alamo aka 狐狸
@anton_medviediev does it support markdown?
Anton Medviediev
Maker
@shellehs Unfortunately it does not, and there are no current plans to add markdown
Tracy Chabala
I have written at least 1500 pages in drafts of novels over the years. The amount of time that's been wasted organizing chapters in folders, saving multiple drafts and versions, and emailing it to myself/ loading on flash drive for fear of a hard drive collapse probably totals three months in time (I'm not a fan of other cloud-based word processors). This app looks awesome. I have many, many novelist and memoirist friends and will recommend this. I especially like that you can add notes to each chapter and keep taps on characters and locations. As I use it, I'll add questions. I'm going to transfer my doc into the program.
Eugene Kalnyk

Congrats on the launch! It is sooo cool to be able to keep all your notes, characters and other things in one organized place, and yet have a space to write. Transforms long-form writing which is oftentimes a mess into a smooth and streamlined experience :)

Pros:

Beautiful distraction-free interface, automatic recognition of characters, places and other entities, intuitive organization system.

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None noticed

Yuriy Shikhanovich
Looks neat. What are the plans for pro version?
Anton Medviediev
Maker
@uxiomatic We are planning to launch the pro version later this year. It will include more stats and analytics, more assistance features and enhanced snapshots.
Ilmi Ali
I like it a lot, would even use it in future to be honest. I gave it a try, but there are still some minor bugs (which is normal as I assume this is early version), such as I couldn't take snapshot at one point or add new chapter.
Anton Medviediev
Maker
@ilmi_ali Thanks for pointing that one out, it should be fixed now!
Taha ahmed khan
Awesome
Xavier Castaneda
Looks really cool. I currently use Reedsy. Its interface as as simple as it gets. I do feel a way to track characters/locations and otherwise add notes is super helpful. Any thought to adding export to epub?
Anton Medviediev
Maker
@xcast3d Epub in definitely on the to-do list, probably for early next year though.
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Anton, it's awesome, thanks! What do you think about idea of connecting with some mindmap-service? Simple image attaching can do the thing too. It's helpful to get characters/places connections visualized. Thanks again, awesome tool!
Anton Medviediev
Maker
@omni_bio Images are definitely planned. I have personally never used any mindmap service, so at this point I don't have an opinion on how the integration would look like, but I will look into it.
Kyrylo Taranenko
@omni_bio @anton_medviediev +1 for mindmapping or any suitable way to plan and visualize the story line.
Basil M Kuriakose

I like this product!

Pros:

Awesome

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None