Skip to content
This repository has been archived by the owner on Dec 29, 2021. It is now read-only.

Latest commit

 

History

History
56 lines (46 loc) · 2.72 KB

README.md

File metadata and controls

56 lines (46 loc) · 2.72 KB
Raw

The quickest way to write a book/PDF using Markdown.

Why ?

Have you found yourself having to create a PDF for school or for work ? I did, quite a lot and nowadays you can use Word, Google docs or even LaTeX if you want have to. I actually always found myself writing it in Markdown because it is so simple and easy to use but sadly I couldn't find an editor that gave enough control of the design and the output. It is also not suitable for anything more serious like a memoir, where LaTeX is a requirement but it shouldn't be one, with some tweaking Markdown is just as good, if not better because it lets you focus on the most important thing, your text.

How ?

The goal of this web application is to bring back the simplicity of writing a book back to its golden age, to the typewriter, while giving a realtime preview of the PDF, just like before. It fixes all the other issues, by giving you a total control of the design, everything about the output is fully customizable. Yet, this editor is still feature-complete, you can use anything that you're used: images, codeblocks, emojis, HTML, LaTeX.

What ?

So here's Quickbook. What I believe is the simplest but fully capable book maker.

Features

  • Minimal and fast
  • Instant and accurate preview right in the browser
  • Fully customizable
    • Using Tailwind CSS (all of it !) and/or pure CSS you can change all the visual of the output
  • Has a feature complete editor
    • With integrated search, just like the one that you use everyday
  • Contains additional HTML elements to make your life easier
    • <pbr>: Page break
    • <page>...</page>: Full custom HTML page
  • Shareable
    • You can quickly send a link containing the current mardown compressed right in it
  • Exportable in various formats
    • Markdown
    • HTML
    • Quickbook (contains the markdown, the theme and all used images)
    • PDF
  • Installable
    • It's a PWA so the application is instalable in Chrome and mobiles
    • By extension it's usable offline !
  • With various other features
    • Images support (with auto compression !)
    • Highlighting support
    • Emoji support
    • LaTeX support
    • The text and images are saved automatically, there's no need to worry about them
  • Privacy friendly
    • Everything is stored inside your browser, nothing is stored in our servers
    • The PDFs are generated and immediately sent back to you, I don't keep them

What's coming ?

  • A zen mode, to improve even more your focus
  • An improved mobile version
  • Drag and drop
  • Scroll sync
  • Headers and footers for pages
  • An automatic table of contents