Interesting! Question - Can you export and import to and from Word? Most editors use it and that is where the proofing and editing is done. Or better yet, can they access the manuscrit and edit (if they were so inclined).

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3yr ago

Tudor

Novelitist

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@aung_thura2 Excellent questions! Totally agree about Word being extensively used in the field. At the moment you can import manually by pasting Word content into your manuscript. There's an upcoming feature to import directly from a .docx file, without the copy/paste hassle. Exporting as a Word-readable file (.docx) is a top priority in our work pipeline. Until that's completed, the Novelitist single-file HTML exports can be opened with Word and saved in its native format. To your last point, "editor mode" (having someone else proof and edit your manuscript non-destructively directly in the app) is a more advanced feature that's also in the works. It will take a while, but we'll get there. That feature will remove a lot of friction and help writers and their editors work seamlessly on the same manuscript, without having to go back and forth between applications and formats. This is part of our goal to make Novelitist a one-stop shop for book writing. Writers should have all friction and hindrances removed from their path, so they can focus all their energy on writing. That's our aim, and we're here to stay. Thanks so much for your interest and questions! 🙏

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3yr ago

Aung Thura

@tgv3 Thank you for the comprehensive answer. You have a cool app and it can really help writers do what they do best and one or a few less things to worry about.

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3yr ago

Tudor

Novelitist

Maker

@aung_thura2 Spot-on! Thank you for your kind words!

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3yr ago

Tudor

Novelitist

Maker

Hello hunter-writers, I'm Tudor, a programmer and writer (the order may vary). Several years ago I was the victim of a severe attack of procrastination, which I naturally attributed to that imagined affliction we all know as "writer's block." How convenient. As this hypochondriac delusion took possession of me, I gradually got it in my head that the culprits are my writing tools. They must be. This spared me any potentially hazardous self-reflection and soul-searching, i.e. any work on myself. So I took the easy road and set out to build better tools to write with (or in), to solve some of the tooling problems I thought I had, only to realize that a lot of them were indeed issues getting in the way of that already fragile impulse to sit down and write. We live in an amazing, albeit thoroughly distracting world, full of sidetracks and rabbit holes. As I progressed, I realized that, in fact, I also write more. I got others to give it a try. Unanimously, we discovered the obvious: Better tools means more writing. More, not necessarily better, but more is a precondition. What we found is built into the app before you, which is now launching officially. 🚀 Without further ado, this is what you’ll be able to do: 1. Organize your manuscript in any way you please - your manuscript, research, characters, ideas, etc., all kept in one place, while only your actual book gets published. 2. Write your book split in as many small, manageable sections as you want. 3. Use a bespoke rich text editor that can take simple text or web content just as well. 4. Have your text spell-checked as you type, in real-time. 5. Enjoy the full-screen distraction-free (focus) mode, with configurable font size, paragraph style and column width. 6. Set a theme to suit your mood, besides just one “day” and one “night” theme (more themes to come). 7. Set readability targets as well as word count targets for your book. 8. Track your work (word count and time spent writing) and set goals. 9. Export your books at any stage of their completion, in EPUB, HTML or text (more formats to come). 10. Back up your books, and even individual sections (with snapshots and versions). This includes simply downloading your book as a file. 11. Write on any device, anywhere—Novelitist runs wherever there’s a browser, be it a Mac, a PC, a tablet or a phone. 12. Write offline and get in sync when you’re online again. 13. Ask for features: asking for new features is a built-in feature. If I piqued your interest, be sure to take advantage of our two week free trial and of the 20% off for six months Product Hunt promotion! Your feedback here, or in the app, or on our social media is greatly appreciated. 🙏 Thank you for your attention and patience! — PS: There’s a little Easter egg in the image gallery here, see if you can spot it! (Hint: it’s in the “Feedback” image.)

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3yr ago