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So I have been looking for something like this, and in fact the closest thing might be Highland 2. What I have been using is VScode with some scripts and other features. Really want an alternative to scrivener that keeps everything in markdown.

The key thing I miss in all the other versions is something that will:

1. Count the words in a chapter/scene/section

2. Give me a total based on the "in work" chapters/scenes/sections

For example suppose I am writing Chapter 1-9. I don't like Chapter 8 so I am rewriting an alternate. I want to know what the old chapter 8 word count is, what the new one is, and what the total word count is (and I can select which chapters or sections to include in the "total").

Looks like this does something like that so long as I put all the relevant chapters together in the same folder. (Good enough if I get to use Markdown.)

Only issue is, if I go into the folders, I don't see the Markdown files. Isn't that the point?



Have you heard of Manuskript[0]? It's an open source editor with a lot of features similar to Scrivener, runs on Linux/Windows/Mac, and has a few features that Scrivener doesn't have that have helped me plan things more fully in the past. It's not perfect, but it's a solid tool. Also, it's backed by Markdown text files.

[0]: https://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/


I have used it, and I liked it but back when I used it:

1. It was only for linux (and I hope OS a lot)

2. I either didn't know, or didn't appreciate, that it uses Markdown.

Thanks for the tip.

(I also think there was only an option to install it from a site I did not know if I could trust, and I hate building from source.)




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