A novel organizer for writers
NOTE: This application will not be continued. It is replaced by novelibre.
novelyst is an organizer tool for writing novels with LibreOffice Writer or OpenOffice Writer. The entire novel is stored in a single file with all additional information. The manuscript is exported for editing with Writer, and then written back so that everything is always consistent and in one place. novelyst uses the file format of yWriter 7 and is largely compatible with it.
novelyst is written in Python and should run on several operating systems.
With the pywoo extension for OpenOffice and the yw-cnv extension for LibreOffice, you can write your edited Office documents back to the project.
novelyst’s functionality can be extended by plugins. Here are some examples:
There are some more examples in the release’s add-on folder: a yWriter launcher and a simple theme changer.
Please make sure that your Python3 installation has the tkinter module. On Ubuntu, for example, it is not available out of the box and must be installed via a separate package named python3-tk.
Download the latest release (version 4.45.1)
See the instructions for use
The icons are made using the free Pusab font by Ryoichi Tsunekawa, Flat-it.
This is Open Source software, and novelyst is licensed under GPLv3. See the GNU General Public License website for more details, or consult the LICENSE file.