SiplPen

Simple - A minimalist writing area

Block interference and focus on writing

Introduction

Simple is a minimalist web writing app.

The purpose of this software is to focus on writing. When using it, you don’t need to care about other complicated matters, just care about the “paper and pen” in front of you.

All data will be saved on your browser using HTML5 local storage.

Application link: GitHub Page and Gitee Page (access faster in mainland China)

README: English

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Function

• Full screen writing to isolate interference
• There are two-color themes for day and night
• Pure web application, no need to download the app
• Supports bold, italic, hyperlink and quotation functions
• Can be converted to Markdown, HTML and plain text
• Local automatic save based on HTML5
• Flow mode allows thinking to flow freely
• Settings and About the Interface
• Font loading
• Word count
• (If you like) you can download it locally and use it directly without building a server

Flow mode

The philosophy of flow is like this. Let your thinking flow to the fullest, don’t stop, don’t worry, don’t procrastinate, and quickly build a prototype. Next, make modifications and refined adjustments. Self-control alone is sometimes not possible, and it requires some external encouragement and help.

To do this, you need to set a time, whether it is ten minutes or twenty minutes, and then turn on flow mode, during which time you need to write as much as you want. Once you stop, the content entered earlier will slowly fade and disappear completely after a few seconds.

I hope this simple function can effectively motivate you and continue to provide you with enough sense of accomplishment and stimulation.

Improvements over the original ZenPen

• Add word count support for Chinese (Asian text)
• Add Flowstate mode
• Add multilingual support (Chinese, English)
• Add UI animation
• Supports mobile devices (Firefox and Chrome only)
• Settings and About the Interface
• Font loading

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Copyright information

Third-party library used

• translate.js (My brother tunes; MIT License) (Unlike the original project, custom modifications were added)
• FontAwesome (SIL OFL 1.1 and MIT License)
• FileSaver.js (Eli Grey; MIT License)
• Blob.js (Eli Grey; MIT License)
• screenfull.js (Sindre Sorhus; MIT License)

License Agreement

The MIT License

Copyright (C) 2020 ~ ImBearChild

Original work: ZenPen (MIT License)

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Document description

The source code of the project is under the src directory, and the source code compressed by makedoc.py is under the docs directory. There is no substantial difference between the two codes and can be used directly. The Github Page of this project actually points to the docs directory, so every release release will be merged into master dev after compression using makedoc.py .

run_doc.sh and run_src.sh will start the development server for the corresponding directory.

Note: makedoc.py requires the Node.js packages clean-css-cli and uglify-js to run. run_doc.sh and run_src.sh require the Node.js package http-server . (None of the command line tools in this project support Windows environments, WSL is theoretically available, but I have not tested it.)