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    1. Verbalize - text editor with writing assistance for Brazilian Portuguese

      I believe this is a interesting issue to post it here because it's very difficult to get writing tools outside the English language. That's exactly why I ended up starting this project. If it's...

      I believe this is a interesting issue to post it here because it's very difficult to get writing tools outside the English language. That's exactly why I ended up starting this project. If it's not allowed, I apologise in advance.

      I'm a linguist and technical writer (tech writer, dev writer, documenter, technical editor, etc.) and I've always used Hemingway for my English writing. The problem was that I'd never found a text editor capable of suggesting possible improvements to a text in Brazilian Portuguese.

      Years passed, and this week I had time to create a fork of Techscriptor with some interface improvements and adapt it to Brazilian Portuguese. That's how version 0.1 of Verbalize was born.

      What does it do?

      In a basic and summarised way, you can upload a file from your computer (in md or txt, for now) and the editor, besides allowing you to actually edit, will give you hints on how to improve the text (long sentences, complex words, jargon, adjectives and other things we should avoid in texts, especially technical ones).

      Once edited, you can download the file in md format.

      Access

      The application can be installed (Electron), accessed through the web, or you can download the code from GitHub and run it locally in your browser.

      Improvements

      I have a few 'next steps' in mind:

      • Google Drive/Onedrive integration.
      • Possibility to upload a custom rules file.
      • Allow it to be used offline as well.
      • Improve the GUI.
      9 votes
    2. Introducing Zed — A lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust

      From Hacker News: Founder of Atom here. We're building the spiritual successor to Atom over at https://zed.dev. We learned a lot with Atom and had a great time, but it always fell short of our...

      From Hacker News:

      Founder of Atom here. We're building the spiritual successor to Atom over at https://zed.dev.

      We learned a lot with Atom and had a great time, but it always fell short of our vision. With Zed we're going to get it right. Written in Rust, custom native UI framework, engineered to be collaborative. Just starting our private alpha this week, so the timing of this announcement feels quite fitting.

      14 votes
    3. Online markdown editors that are capable of handling loads of text

      I have discovered hackmd.io a few months ago and started digitalizing my massive mess of handwritten nodes together with all the terrible notepad/word mixed notes into one big personal "wiki" of...

      I have discovered hackmd.io a few months ago and started digitalizing my massive mess of handwritten nodes together with all the terrible notepad/word mixed notes into one big personal "wiki" of knowledge. But I ran into a problem. HackMd can only handle ~50k characters before starting to lag and 100k characters is the limit per note, this doesn't even fit my one summary/tips note on one programming language. Do you know any alternatives? I really like markdown, since all of the notes look clean and organized, I can insert pictures and link to websites easily, but also love to work with them online, since I have to switch between 3 computers between university, home and my laptop.

      7 votes