Jottr is a free, cross-platform, small and fast text editor released under GPL v3 license.

It has cool features including:

• An integrated web browser for quickly looking up selected text in various sources, including user-defined websites

• A "Focus Mode", for distraction-free writing

• Two methods to quickly inserting frequently used text blocks: add words to your dictionary or create text snippets

• Smart, intuitive autocompletion with tab key

• Themes: choose between, light, dark and Sepia themes for the editor

• Familiar, intuitive keyboard shortcuts (ctrl++ to make text bigger, for example)

The app is can be installed from Flathub and is also available as RPM and DEB packages. (It will soon be listed on flathub)

Jottr can also run on MacOS and Windows.

Video of jottr in action

Jottr is a simple, opinionated, plain text editor I developed primarily for my personal use. It's mainly intended for writers, researchers and journalists or anyone who needs a simple, distraction-free tool for writing. It's cross-platform and can be used on Linux, macOS or Windows. The app is released under the GPL v3 license.

It has the following features:

• Dark, Light and Sepia (paper-like) themes
• Focus mode - Distraction-free writing made easy by hiding all UI elements (can be toggled with mouse or a keyboard shortcut)
• Search for any word without leaving the editor using the integrated web browser
• Snippets - Save any word or block of text as snippets and quickly insert using mouse or through typing snippet name
• User dictionary
• Inline auto-completion for words added to user dictionary
• Add custom search websites to your right-click menu
• Custom font for editor
• Zoom controls

RPM and DEB packages are provided at the project's github page.

Feel free to share your feedback/thoughts.

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