Zettlr
Zettlr lets you run from idea to publication in one app entirely on your own server.
Overview
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench The project has 13K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under GPL-3.0.
Key Features
Source: GitHub README
- Your Notes are your notes: Zettlr is privacy-first
- Citations made easy: Tight and ever-growing integration with your favourite reference manager (Zotero, JabRef, and many others)
- Available in over a dozen languages
- Draft your publications in a professional environment, with LaTeX and Word template support
- Simple and beautiful exports with Pandoc, LaTeX, and Textbundle
- Snippets allow you to automate insertion of boilerplate code
- Themes, dark modes, and full flexibility with custom CSS
- Code highlighting for many languages
- Support for state of the art knowledge management techniques (Zettelkasten)
- A powerful full text search that helps you find anything, anywhere
Getting Started
Source: GitHub README
To install Zettlr, just download the latest release for your operating system. Currently supported are macOS, Windows, and most Linux distributions.
On our website and here on GitHub, we provide a set of installers for the most common use-cases. We provide both 64-bit installers as well as installers for ARM systems (called “Apple Silicon” in the macOS ecosystem). 32-bit is not supported. We offer the following binaries directly:
- macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)
- Windows (x64)
- Debian/Ubunt
Normalized Features
Source: tool-features-normalized.json
brew, custom css, full text search, npm, plugins, privacy focused, templates, themes.
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Features
Integrations & APIs
- Plugin / Extension System
Search & Discovery
- Full-Text Search
Customization & Branding
- Custom CSS / Styling
- Templates
- Themes / Skins
Security & Privacy
- Privacy-Focused
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