After a hard time of work, at last The first stable version of the Zettlr project arrives, within which a text editor with Markdown markup is being developed.
The project was built using the Electron platform, which allows you to create separate applications based on the Chromium engine and the Node.js platform.
The code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Builds are made for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
About Zettlr
slip is optimized to solve problems associated with the processing of a large number of documents.
The editor provides flexible options to search a collection of documents and allows you to have several texts open at the same time.
Using Markdown markup allows the user to focus on the content and writing process of the text, relegating to the second plan the tasks of format and style, which can be done last with the help of the simplest markup.
Thus, the heat map algorithm can also be used to visually display search results with the color that highlights the most relevant elements.
As well is supported for maintaining scientific notes on the Zettelkasten method in which extensions such as file identifiers, tags, and internal links are supported.
Interestingly, the app departs a bit from the typical GUI / layout pattern we've seen in so many Markdown editors and offers an older layout, which isn't a bad thing.
At the top of the main window there is a normal run menu bar, followed by a handy toolbar that includes all the most important controls and commands (both global and for the Markdown editor).
While we are studying the subject, it is worth noting that it also has a very useful night mode and that it is also available in German, French and English.
Taking everything into account, Zettlr is in fact a very compelling Markdown editor that is primarily aimed at users who write a lot. And in addition to the common features, they should also organize your documents.
Features
One of the strengths of the application is that it counts with various export options to formats such as HTML, PDF, ODT, DOCX.
The main features of the editor that can be highlighted are:
- Write texts without linking to file formats.
- The ability to process text and notes in an application.
- Panel for quick access to file and directory lists.
- Export support in Pandoc and LaTeX formats.
- Built-in support for highlighting marks and codes in various programming languages.
- Structuring documents and notes using tags.
- Integration of the management of citations and bibliographic references based on the Zotero Citeproc platform.
- The ability to generate a presentation using the revealJS framework.
- The ability to use your own LaTeX templates to export.
- Simple and minimalist interface.
How to install Zettlr on Ubuntu and derivatives?
Currently the application has packages for Linux (Debian and Fedora), macOS and Windows.
For whom it is are interested in being able to install this excellent text editor on your system to test it, you will be able to do so by following the steps we share with you below.
The first that we must do is go to the official website of the project and in its download section we can obtain the deb package.
We can do this from the terminal using the wget command, so we are going to open one with Ctrl + Alt + T and in it we type the following command:
wget -O Zettlr.deb https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/releases/download/v1.0.0/Zettlr-linux-x64-1.0.0.deb
Once the download is done, we can carry out the installation with the package manager of our preference or from the same terminal we do it with the following command:
sudo dpkg -i Zettlr.deb
In case of having problems with the application dependencies, we can solve them by executing the command in the terminal:
sudo apt -f install
And ready with it, we can start using this text editor in our system.