aengus 0.2.4

A tui writing app

Aengus - A TUI Writing App

Aengus is a simple editor for the terminal tailored towards novel writing, especially fantasy and science fiction. It offers nice highlighting features for characters, places, artifacts or more. It can be easily configured to your workflow. I also offers some statistics about your writing habits. It uses simple markdown files as the base layer so your work can be easily imported from other apps.

Installation

Install with pip install aengus.

Then create a project with aengus new <PROJECT_NAME> and open with aengus open <PROJECT_NAME>.

Or get help with aengus -h.

Documentation

Aengus can interpret every folder as a project with an aengus.toml file at its root. When creating a new project with aengus new <PROJECT_NAME> it will create a new folder with the following structure:

• [characters]
  • ..
• [places]
  • ..
• [notes]
  • ..
• [novel]
  • ..
• aengus_stats.csv
• aengus.toml

To create a new character inside the editor press ctrl+n and put a new markdown file into the characters folder. To further customize the highlighting Aengus uses frontmatter, so you can preface the markdown file with the following:

---
name: Sima # the main name of this character (omit and the filename will be used)
aliases:
  - little mouse # a list of aliases to highlight the character (optional)
color: #e44e0e # (this color will be used to highlight this character, omit for default)
---

The same works for places or all the other folders you defined in your project toml under

[mentions]
folders = ["characters", "places"] # <---- here

Aengus records simple analytics in the aengus_stats.csv file and displays it under the Statistics tab (open with ctrl+l).

Setup Environment

This repository uses uv. Run uv sync to create the virtual environment.

Install with pip install -e . to get instant feedback while editing.

On windows add the Scripts folder to PATH if you have not already.

Planned Features

• Copy + Paste with text selection (paste from clipboard is done)
• highlight only one visual line in smaller editor
• Session Word Count goal with a little progress bar
• novel exporter into single markdown/pdf/whatever (needs a chapter ordering system)
• highlighting based on noun, adjective, verb (toggle between current system)
• highlight fill words in "Edit Mode"