Zettlr
Launched 2017
102 features found available
In their words
Your one-stop publication workbench. From idea to publication in one app: Zettlr accompanies you while writing your blog post, newspaper article, term paper, thesis, or entire book. Read more
Pricing
Our most recent pricing details for Zettlr:
Free, or donation
Features pertaining to how the app comports itself visually
Display option where the editor shows black background with white text
A mechanism is provided to have more than one note concurrently open for editing in a separate viewing window contained within the application
The light/dark setting of the OS can control whether light or dark layout
Editor can show content exactly as it will be exported/printed
AI integrations offered by the app or a first-party plugin.
Tasks from notes can be viewed on a calendar
What kind of content can be uploaded or inserted into notes?
Playing and interacting with YouTube videos is possible from within a note
Features that pertain to how the app interfaces with its customers
There is a dedicated venue such as Discord where users can chat about the product in real time
The company has a specified URL at which users can discuss the product and ask questions in a format where answers can be upvoted to pinpoint the best one
The company offers a version of the product that can be used indefinitely at no cost, without a note limit
The company provides a list of the app's upcoming and newly added features for public consumption
What measures are taken to ensure customer data remains private, even to employees of the companies themselves?
App can be used without providing any personal information (including email)
An explicit policy describes how security is implemented, and what access employees have to data.
Notes can exist purely on the local file system of the device, without syncing
A private web server can be used to sync note content across devices
Note content can be created such that even a user who gained access to the note app's cloud database (employee or intruder) couldn't decrypt content (i.e., they couldn't obtain a usable decryption key even if possessing the database contents)
What options are available for formatting text and related content in a note?
a vertical bar formatted to the left of the selected text allows for an indented "quote" styling
dotted points are used at the beginning of a paragraph to assemble unordered lists
A sub-list contained within an unordered list
Bullet items can be "folded," "collapsed" or "contracted" such that their nested content is hidden from view
Does text formatted as code get syntax highlighting?
Multiple languages can be selected to define the code syntax highlighting
Text or images can be linked from a particular string of text in the note (not just URLs)
Text can be indented (without bullets, block quote, or other incidental features)
A formatting text style that slants the letters evenly to the right
Numbers are used at the beginning of the line to assemble ordered lists
A sub-list contained within an ordered list
text characters are smaller than regular text, and are set below the baseline (subscript), or above the baseline (superscript), commonly used for mathematical expression
A set of links to each header in the note can be inserted into the note or sidebar
Videos can be placed in the body of a note, with controls to start and stop the video
What functionality specific to images is possible?
An image (such as jpeg, png, gif) can be inserted and viewed in the note editor
What features are provided for interoperability between apps? How much lock-in is there?
An entire account can be deleted (including all notes and personal data) without emailing the company
Hierarchy is exported in a way that other apps can import
What features does the note provider offer in terms of third-party integrations and utilities adjacent to the note content itself?
Supports syntax allowing diagrams and charts (Mermaid, etc) to be inserted into a note body
Pre-configured content (instructions, tasks, etc) can be duplicated from an existing source note
Public access is available to the source code necessary to build/modify this app
Which login types are supported?
Features specific to the mobile experience
How well can the app function without internet access?
Which platforms are officially supported?
Includes web apps that can be installed via official PWA or Electron
What options are there for navigating around the app and finding the note you're after?
When entering text into the search field, matching hierarchical tags/directories are offered to help the user filter note content
For any given note, the app provides a way to browse all other notes that contain links pointing to it
The three keyword operators (AND, NOT, OR) limit or expand search results
It's possible to create a link from one note to another note
A list of all notes containing a word or phrase can be produced
Enclosing the search query with quote brackets, the results only show words from within those quotes
Using whatever mechanism the app provides to organize notes (e.g., tags, folders), can that mechanism be used as a full text search filter?
It's possible to assign a hierarchy identifier (such as a tag) to a line of text, such that the line (not the note itself) can be discovered when browsing the note hierarchy
A dialog is provided to look up other notes as link targets while creating a new link in a note
The app provides a means by which to arrange notes such that they can be browsed through a tree structure (e.g., tags, folders)
Nodes in the note hierarchy can be colored
Notes can have metadata or frontmatter ("properties"), which can be used to locate the note later
What features exist to share notes with the world?
Does the app support formatting data in tables?
Left, center, right-aligned text can be defined per cell, row or column
What to-do list and scheduling features does the app support?
What functionality is offered to capture content discovered on the internet?
Did we miss something?
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