Markdown Fiction Writer

A vscode extension for writers.

Some tools I wrote for writing, organizing and exporting fiction (short stories, novels) using markdown.

⚠ Warning: This extension is entering the Beta phase. This means, a major restructuring of settings and features will follow. Please make sure to remember/backup you settings if you want to reuse them with the newer version.

Features

This is a quick overview of the main features. Please read the Full Documentation to find out more about this extension.

• Enhanced text editing:

  • automatically insert new paragraph on ++enter++, or ++shift+enter++

  • solutions for writing dialogue using dialogue markers (like in some non-english languages), using either em-dash (—) or other marks.

  • autoreplace -- with —

  • solutions for writing dialogue using dialogue markers (like in some non-english languages), using either em-dash (—) or other marks.

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• Export/Combine files

  • combine multiple .md files into one single file.

  • export .md to other formats (like .doc or .docx)

    • uses pandoc

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• Split files

  • easily split large .md files into one multiple documents.

  

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• Use metadata to categorize text

  • Parse yaml metadata (either in document or as external .md.yml. file)

    

    • (1): The yaml metadata block. The first thing in the document.
    • (2): The Metadata tree view. Parses the metadata block.
    • (3), (4): Assigned keyword colors and badges

    

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• Analyze text

  • count words, phrases, standard pages

  • view word/phrase repetitions

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• Text formatting

  • cleaning up spaces
  • fixing dialogue lines, indents
  • fixing paragraph spaces (add/remove empty lines)
  • remove trailing spaces
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• Take Quick Notes

  • take short notes and associate them with markdown (.md) files.

    

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• View

  • writing mode: quickly toggle font size, theme, zenMode and focusMode

    

  • fold paragraph lines

    

  • status bar icons

    

  • typewriter mode

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Known Issues

As this plugin rebinds some keys, like:enter, shift+enter, delete, tab, backspace, it can interfear with other extensions that also overwrite this keybindings.

Consider inspecting and rebinding some of them, as described here: Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code

Contributing

• File bugs, feature requests in GitHub Issues.

Release Notes

The current version is an early concept. Features are still missing, and not all features are thoroughly tested, or have reached a stable version.

View Changelog

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For more information

• Full Documentation
• Visual Studio Code's Markdown Support
• Markdown Syntax Reference

Enjoy!