Secret writing0.0.84

Secret writing lets writers turn ideas into organized novels, lyrics, poems, essays, drafts, and screenplays within a plain-text workspace. It brings chapters and scenes together as one project, making it easier to arrange material and manage revisions as a manuscript develops. Jeasonchen publishes it as freeware Education software for Linux; version 0.0.84 requires snapd and runs on amd64 systems.

The editor includes a distraction-free mode for concentrated drafting and can export finished work as PDF, DOCX, EPUB, text, RTF, or Markdown. Writers can record a premise, narrative strands, and geographic, temporal, and social settings to keep the story’s underlying structure visible. Character, location, and object profiles can include attached images, while themes can be tracked during composition. These features suit authors shaping long fiction as well as people preparing lyrics, poetry, essays, scripts, or other substantial drafts.

Analysis tools report chapter lengths, the times and places where characters appear, their distribution across chapters, and the project’s timeline. A novelist can therefore use the same workspace for outlining, drafting, continuity checks, and final-format export instead of separating those tasks across unrelated documents. Its combination of narrative planning, revision management, focused text editing, and story analysis distinguishes Secret writing from a basic text editor.