... open a wiki tool. Then you need an outline, so you grab a plotting app. Then you want to clean up your prose, so you sign up for a grammar checker. Then you want to format your manuscript for publishing, so there s another tool. Before you know it, you re running five or six different apps just to write a single book. And every single one of them wants a monthly subscription. The subscription tax Let s be honest ... ... finally had enough of Microsoft Word. I was writing a fantasy series with deep worldbuilding, hundreds of characters, multiple magic systems, interconnected timelines and Word was buckling under the weight of it. But when I looked at the alternatives

... update brings a few minor fixes. Mostly documentation and under-the-hood stuff. Changed Added books section to REFERENCE and README documenting directory structure, chapters, manuscript, and workflow. Added Ctrl+M (compile manuscript

... based structure with separate chapter files instead of a single document. Legacy books are marked and can be migrated to the new format. Your old file will still be available with a .bak extension. Chapters are automatically combined into manuscript.md when you compile; chapters.md also gets created automatically allowing you to reorder chapters. The manuscript

... overlaid on photos) BYOK: Claude, GPT-4 (API keys) or Gemini (Google OAuth) $9.99 one-time / free tier available What I'm considering adding: I'm thinking about a "create book" feature letting writers compile projects into a formatted manuscript. Options could include: - Export to Google Docs (formatted manuscript

... Back story Early this March, Manus burst onto the scene with its autonomous Agent workflow and stunned everyone with how much coding it could automate. Inspired by a friend, I asked Manus