While I'm not the UX-man and it's just a hobby, I try to create visually appealing applications. And Norka is one of my trials to create a cozy text editor for GNOME and elementary OS exactly.
Markdown for markup; No files until you need it; Your notes always saved and can be exported in a moment.
- Markdown support
- Text search
- Autosave
- Document previews in a grid
- Reading time
- Drag-n-drop import local files
- Spell checking
- Export to files
- Export to Medium.com
- Export to Write.as
- Different color schemes for editor
- Document archiving
- And of course, you can delete them permanently
Read more on tenderowl.com/norka.
If you like Norka and you want to support its development, consider donating via Liberapay:
Text editor built for GNOME on top of PyGObject, Python 3 and GTK+ 3. Project under development so it will be massively changing in time :)
Build time requirements:
- meson (>= 0.49)
- python3 (>= 3.6)
- intltool
- libgranite-dev
- libgtk-3-dev (>= 3.10)
- libgspell-1-dev
- libgtksourceview-4.0-dev (>= 3.24.3)
- libwebkit2gtk-4.0
- python3-gi
- python3-gi-cairo
- gir1.2-gspell-1
- gir1.2-gtksource-3.0
- gir1.2-granite-1.0
- gir1.2-webkit2-4.0
Run meson build to configure the build environment. Change to the build directory and run ninja to build:
meson build --prefix=/usr
ninja -C build
To install, use ninja install, then execute with com.github.tenderowl.norka:
sudo ninja -C build install
com.github.tenderowl.norka
That's all. If you want to see any features or push any changes - just submit a PR or create an issue.
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