Inkpot

Rust · thombruce/inkpot

A writing format and desktop app for prose and poetry. It keeps a whole work (a novel, a short story, an article) in one continuous plain-text document, while letting you rearrange its parts, annotate invisibly, and edit non-destructively.

The .ink format has visible headings that go to print (chapters, sections) and invisible headings that don't (scenes, beats), sharing one hierarchy:

# Chapter 1

~~ The Kitchen
time: dawn
pov: Alice

She stood at the counter. {+Steam rose from the kettle.}
{/is this too early in the timeline?}

From one source it generates:

• a clean manuscript (Markdown, or a Shunn-format PDF ready for submission)
• a structural outline
• a codex of characters, locations, and notes
• a bibliography of cited sources

The desktop app adds a timeline, character cards, and a map that follows your cast through the story.

Plain text, git-friendly, no lock-in.