We need a special Writing Mode

Archive Feature Requests
#1

We need a special writing writing mode.

Maybe Inspiration can be taken from Scrivener and Muse.
Also it would help so much if Remnote would work together neatly with Zotero, so that we could easily footnote like it is possible with Zotero in Word.

Then there should be the option the select different modes of the writing modus, which would disable features and reduce remnote to special features to a certain stage in writing.

These could be certain stages in the writing process:
noting down thoughts (without any distractions like in muse)
connection thoughts
outlining
Editing and writing
Formatting

#2

Sounds like Zettlr is what you’re looking for. I highly doubt RemNote would add an extra mode since they make a point of allowing to make flashcards as you type. That said, as soon as performance shapes up, you should be able to just use portals for arranging and the side panel for writing. As for Zotero, check this vid for a metadata template.

#3

I’m always up for distraction free interfaces. :smiley:

What features do you want to have disabled or distractions removed when writing?

I find RemNotes default interface already pretty minimalistic. You can remove more UI elements with Custom CSS.
Here is a “Zen Mode” which you can copy into your Custom CSS and enable each time you want to focus by clicking on the checkbox:

/* Author: Hannes Frank, 2020-11-20 */

/* hide help button */
#help-button {
  display: none;
}

/* hide sidebar */
#document-sidebar,
#document-sidebar--collapsed {
  display: none !important;
}
.page {
  width: 100% !important;
}

/* hide rem widgets */
.rem-hamburger {
  display: none !important;
}
.toggleCollapseButton {
  display: none !important;
}

/* hide sticky top header */
#hierarchy-editor-list__sticky-top__container {
  display: none;
}

/* hide bottom toolbar */
#hierarchy-editor-toolbar-container {
  display: none !important;
}

Press F11 and you see only a wall of text.

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#4

Count on Hannes to do what RemNote probably won’t.

#5

I’d like a writing mode, too. I don’t really understand CSS very well or how it is implemented in Remnote, so perhaps that would give me what I’d like.

Basically, I’d like a page that looks like a simple Google Doc with basic word processing functions. Does anyone remember WordPerfect’s “reveal codes” toggle? I’d like to be able to “toggle off” the RemNote look (take out bullets, make references look like links). The toggle could be a powerup tag that would apply to all children of the tagged rem, toggling between RemNote regular view and writing mode.

This “writing mode” document is what I’d like to be able to use for collaboration (like one can collaborate with others on a Google doc). It would make it easier to get my team on RemNote if it looked like a simple word processor (which they are used to already). I could then toggle over to use the power features. The “writing mode” view could be the thing that get’s exported or copied when I need to switch over to a final document draft (when I need to add more polish in a publishing program or get it on our organization’s resource Drupal page, for example).

My idea does have problems. RemNote dots are not the same thing as Google doc bulleted or numbered lists, and I don’t have a good idea for handling those (but I kind of like the idea of RemNote having ordinal lists). I suppose we’d need a map of RemNote formatting to write mode formatting (perhaps that’s where the CSS comes in). Cards are another problem, however, I use RemNote cards when I’m making study outlines, not when I’m using my study notes in a writing project.
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