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Norka

Continuous text editing for everyone

Imagine a hassle-free text-writing experience. Don't worry about saving files, complex markup, or accidentally deleted notes.

Do what you want to do - concentrate on beautiful stories, short notes, or inspired scripts. Norka cares about you.

Norka

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Features

  • 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/work/norka.

Installation

Download on Flathub

Translations

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🎉 Support

If you like Norka and you want to support its development it would be awesome if you help to buy me a coffee:

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Tech part

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 :)

Building

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

Afterword

That's all. If you want to see any features or push any changes - just submit a PR or create an issue.

Brought to you by Tender Owl 🦉