Hello everyone,

Today I created the first public release of my own word processor, writing/publishing tool. This is a beta release, version 0.1.0, but I am currently able to use it for my writing tasks. This is a free, open-source application for Windows, and you can find out more here or download the installer at the project’s GitHub page. Here’s a direct link for the version 0.1.0 installer.

The actual word processing side is fairly basic since my needs are pretty simple. It’s based on Microsoft’s FlowDocument model, and I hooked up a few basic editing/formatting controls in the Ribbon at the top (half of them may not work since I don’t really use them…FYI). Nothing special to it; I mostly followed the online WPF RichTextBox samples and kept it pretty basic. Word has a billion times more features. Anyway, it does what I need, and it has the capability to export to a Word document which is what you’d submit when publishing. Here’s a screenshot from the opening scene of Rescue at Waverly:

But for me, the real power in this application is the way it organizes information, allowing you to easily move sections/chapters around without risk of copy-paste errors, as well as the Markdown document system used for creating notes and reference material. Here’s the main view, with some components partially expanded:

Some of the notes I’ve started to compile. Most of my notes are still kept in a personal Redmine website, but my plan is to host all these features within this application itself:

There’s a ticket tracker and file browser, but mine are currently empty so I have no meaningful screenshots to show. However, I’m using SQLite’s full-text search to search everything: titles, contents, notes, tickets, etc. Here’s a slightly-redacted screenshot of that:

And that’s really all I have to show for now. It’s free for download and use, so if you’re interested, go ahead and install it. If you find any issues, let me know.

Thanks,

TJ Mott