What plugins do you use to write?

[Rika Sukenik]

I'm starting to write more long form in Tiddlywiki and I'd like an easy way to bold, highlight, and add quotes. I'd love to hear what tool writers like to use for writing. Thanks!

[Javier Eduardo Rojas Romero]

I wanted to use a proper editor to edit the text in textareas, and was
really happy to find about
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/firenvim/ , which embeds
an nvim instance in any textarea in your browser, including of course
the edit field for tiddlers in tiddlywiki. Since nvim is quite
extensible, that fills my needs, although I admit vim/nvim is not
everybody's text editor of choice.

Another approach is
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/ghosttext/ , which will
let you edit the contents of textareas in an external text editor of
your choice; I've also used that one, and I like it, but I prefer the
"embedded" approach of firenvim better.

[Adithya B]

I made this plugin to be able to write long form in TW easily: https://adithya-badidey.github.io/TW5-codemirror-plus/

Along with this, I keep a small cheatsheet of shortcuts and formatting symbols.

[Anjar]

Hi Rika,

It may not be what you want, but a tiddlywiki more customized for longer texts can be found here: https://andjar.github.io/TW5-longtext/

You can choose to have two story rivers; writing to the left and previewing to the right, or you can have other stuff to the right (figures, references...). Or if you simply want to focus on the writing, you can close the toddlers to the right (and just click "Preview" to open the preview again). In addition, you have the plainrev plugin to take care of revisions (each time you click "SAVE")

Best,

Anders

[Rika Sukenik]

Hey Anders, thank you for the recommendation! On first glance, it looks really sleek and helpful for longer form text. I'll dig in!