🔧 Tiny Chore Update
New update brings a few minor fixes. Mostly documentation and under-the-hood stuff. 🔧 Changed Added books section to REFERENCE and README documenting directory structure, chapters, manuscript, and workflow. Added Ctrl+M (compile manuscript) to the README keybindings table. Fixed app_version in settings.json is now updated on every launch when the installed version changes, not only during setup...
How are you using Prosaic?
Hello! I hope people (maybe at least one person?) would be using Prosaic regularly besides me. If you are, how are you doing it? Here's where I write from: Share a screenshot, a picture or something you wrote with it. Cheers, Deepansh
v1.4.0: Better Books!
This update adds more sense behind the "work on a book" phrasing. Books are now split into chapters by default. Old, single-file books are available to either edit or to convert. No explicit conversion will be performed so you can choose. But going forward, books are better managed with split chapters. Books: Now use a folder-based structure with separate chapter files instead of a single...
v1.3.4: Two Pesky Bugs Fixed
Hello, hello With a new, shorter iteration to Prosaic, two pesky bugs have been fixed: Creating a file no longer overwrites existing files; shows error instead. Entering .md extension in filename no longer creates double extension. Hope you haven't faced them and if you have, you just need to do a pipx upgrade prosaic-app Happy writing!
Prosaic's sister-project Ode launches on PH today
Last year in November, I began working on Ode to build a minimal publishing platform for myself without the noise of the modern internet. Over the last few months, Ode has really matured as an open-source self-hosted website generator. Today, at v1.4.5, it launches on Product Hunt. If you have already written with Prosaic and enjoyed it, and are looking to publish your work online, Ode will be...


Prosaic v1.3.3: Autosave, a better status bar, and a bunch of UX fixes
I just shipped Prosaic v1.3.3, a small but meaningful update focused on reliability and writing flow. The big change is autosave. Files now save automatically every 10 seconds, with a simple status bar indicator so you always know what state your document is in: ● — just saved ○ — idle [+] — unsaved changes [·] — saved state The goal is simple: you should never think about saving while writing....
v1.2.1: Profiles are here! 🎉
I think before I faced it myself, I didn't consider that all of us have different parts of our lives we need an editor for, and while sharing can work well for some, sometimes, you need a separate space entirely. Thus, profiles are here! prosaic --profile <> # lets you create a new profile prosaic --profiles # lets you list all your profiles What if you are on an older version? Fret not, there...
v1.1.0: Key Palette & Comment Toggle
Hey everyone! Just shipped v1.1 of Prosaic, the distraction-free terminal writing app. [Feat] Ctrl+k comment toggle: Quickly comment/uncomment lines using markdown-style [text]: # syntax. Perfect for hiding notes-to-self that won't render. [Feat] Key palette (Ctrl + p): See all available keybindings at a glance. No more guessing what shortcuts exist when you are editing a file or navigating a...


