Anyone use Git for writing projects?

1 points by auctoritas 3y ago ↗ HN

I'm in the early stages of a writing project and it just occurred to me to start using Git. Does anyone else do this? Seems like it would be a good way to track my progress. Are there any Git-for-writing tools out there?

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l5870uoo9y 3y ago ↗

This project might serve as inspiration: https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide

nafeen 3y ago ↗

This GitKon talk by Jessi Shakarian might help - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coEq9RXJ1E8

yourmatenate 3y ago ↗

I sync Obsidian with Git and use pandoc for book / ebook generation (or Foam with Visual Code might work too).

Scrivener can synchronise with Git too - albeit indirectly (it sync's with a folder & I use a simple script to keep it up to date)

If you need to organise research you can sync Wiki.js with Git.

However, Gitbook or mdBook might be easier to use for a single book project.

https://www.gitbook.com/

https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/

https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

https://js.wiki/

https://obsidian.md/

JoeyBananas 3y ago ↗

Yes, if only to prevent loss of data by accidentally deleting everything, hitting save and closing the program.

Shinmon 3y ago ↗

Markdown or LaTeX is awesome in combination with git. Even better, it's a (bad) frist backup solution.