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[](https://codecov.io/gh/vkbo/novelWriter)
[](https://novelwriter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest)
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novelWriter is a markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents.
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novelWriter uses its own flavour of markdown that supports mete data syntax for comments, synopsis and cross-referencing between files.
novelWriter is licensed under GPLv3, see the [GNU General Public License website](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html) for more details, or consult the [LICENSE](LICENSE.md) file.