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.

Hello!

I hope people (maybe at least one person?) would be using Prosaic regularly besides me. If you are, how are you doing it?

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 document.

• Legacy books are marked and can be migrated to the new format. Your old file will still be available with a .bak extension.

• Chapters are automatically combined into manuscript.md when you compile; chapters.md also gets created automatically allowing you to reorder chapters.

• The manuscript is read-only (in Prosaic) and regenerated on every chapter close or save (including auto-saves).

As always, to update, you can use:

Every day, after launching, makers are contacted on LinkedIn and X by people offering to sell votes. As the Product Hunt team, we are very much aware of this and really hate it. We have systems in place to neutralize this type of gaming. Every vote counts for a different number of points on Product Hunt. A couple examples:

• An account with a recently created gmail address and no history of quality contributions on Product Hunt: this vote will count for 0 points. Yes, this might be a well intentioned user, but we take a conservative approach to protect the community. If the account has a company email or applies for verification on Product Hunt, that's a different story.

• An account with a company email address linked to a legitimate LinkedIn account with a history of meaningful contributions on Product Hunt: this vote carries significant weight.

A couple questions for the community:

• Are there specific accounts on Product Hunt that you suspect participate in vote selling? You can reply here or email report@producthunt.co

• What would you want to see us do differently here?

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.

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.

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

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

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 pane.

• [Fix] Consistent escape behavior: Esc and Ctrl+q now close layers in the right order

• [Feat] F1 for help everywhere: Quick reference accessible from any screen.

• Several other under the hood improvements are a part of this larger version bump as well.

Changelog available on the GitHub Releases page.