Q: Is it suitable for non-technical writers? is there any feedback on them baing able to use markdown, @pov tags etc?
A: "non-technical" as in the person or the writing itself? I deliberately chose not to write a WYSIWYG editor in order to keep the files plain text and as simple as possible. I've written a WYSIWYG editor before, and didn't like the result. I guess having to use some markup makes it slightly technical in use, but I've also added menu entries and keyboard shortcuts for all the features, so it shouldn't be too difficult to get started.
Q: Did you try some commercial competitors? How would you compare? I understand scrivener is one popular option
A: I've used it, yes. It's excellent, and perfect if you want a full WYSIWYG editor with a lot of features. I went in a different direction exactly because I wanted something simpler. Also, as a Linux user, the lack of decent options was a factor.
I'm actually support for similar tagging to my own personal editor (for my first two novels I used a mix of Google Docs (yes, really) and Libre Office; using my own editor for my third). I'm definitively going to steal ideas from this one...
I don't think using those kind of features requires any technical understanding at all. If anything, people are used to doing "ad hoc" tagging with easily searchable strings.
- Is it suitable for non-technical writers? is there any feedback on them baing able to use markdown, @pov tags etc?
- did you try some commercial competitors? How would you compare? I understand scrivener is one popular option