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About a year and a half ago I started my writing journey by beginning to work on my first novella. During this time, I felt the need for different tools, like a timeline editor, a character sheet and so on, features that were not available on normal text editors. Later I discovered that I needed an Epub exporter, cover designer and more. I also wanted something AI-free, something private. It is important for me as a debut author to know that it is my writing, not an AI&#x27;s and that it wont be used for AI training. So most cloud services were an instant &quot;NO&quot; from me.<p>Being a software engineer by day, I decided that instead of paying hundreds of dollars for the needed tools, I could just make them the way I wanted them to be. Eventually I decided to bundle them together, polish them and add more feature. So, this is how Chronicle was born.<p>Chronicle is a complete writing and authoring tool for writers. It offers features that other companies charge tens or even hundreds of dollars, while delivering (in my opinion) and inferior experience.<p>I also wanted Chronicle to work fully offline, not use Gen AI in the writing process, and provide a privacy-first experience.<p>Among the features are: - full-featured text editor with comments supports - timeline editor - character sheet - locations codex - Epub reader and exporter (including editing Epub Metadata) - Cover designer - Fully-local TTS using KokoroJS Text-to-Speech for help in proofreading - Themes - Private Cloud-storage support with WebDAV - and many more<p>And I made Chronicle not only free, but fully open-source. You can check the source code on Github, launch the online editor which supports almost all features, or download the app for both Windows and MacOS.<p>I would love to hear feedback.<p>Disclaimer: In the development process I did use AI. The app is NOT made entirely by AI, but being a back-end developer mostly, I did use AI for parts related to the user interface, themes, fix some bugs and to bridge knowledge gaps I had.

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/15 13:23:08