The novelibre Python program helps authors organize novels. Although it can take up characters, locations, and items in order to trace their occurrence in the story, novelibre is not meant as a tool for extensive world building. For describing, grouping, and organizing the people, places, and things in your story world, a wiki is much better.
nv_zim is a plugin that manages the connection with a Zim Desktop Wiki.
- Lets you connect an existing Zim notebook as a project wiki with the novelibre project.
- Lets you create a new project wiki that is either blank, or populated with all characters, locations, and items of the novelibre project.
- Adds Wiki page link buttons to the book/characters/locations/items/ properties. Clicking on a link button opens the corresponding Zim wiki page, if existing. Otherwise, a new project wiki page can be created.
- Newly created wiki pages contain descriptions and other meta data. novelibre tags are adopted, so they are a powerful navigation aid in the wiki.
- Wiki pages among the regular links are recognized and opened with the Zim application.
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novelibre version 5.0+
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For Windows, I recommend the most recent 32-bit Zim version 0.69.1, which is fast and proven. The Windows installer for this release is no longer available from the official download site, but can be found on the former maintainer's web site.
Download the latest release nv_zim_v5.0.1.pyzw
- Launch nv_zim_v5.0.1.pyzw by double-clicking (Windows/Linux desktop),
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python nv_zim_v5.0.1.pyzw(Windows), resp.python3 nv_zim_v5.0.1.pyzw(Linux) on the command line.
Many web browsers recognize the download as an executable file and offer to open it immediately. This starts the installation.
However, depending on your security settings, your browser may initially refuse to download the executable file. In this case, your confirmation or an additional action is required. If this is not possible, you have the option of downloading the zip file.
The package is also available in zip format: nv_zim_v5.0.1.zip
- Extract the nv_zim_v5.0.1 folder from the downloaded zipfile "nv_zim_v5.0.1.zip".
- Move into this new folder and launch setup.pyw by double-clicking (Windows/Linux desktop),
- or execute
python setup.pyw(Windows), resp.python3 setup.pyw(Linux) on the command line.
See the online manual
- The Zim icon is from the Zim Desktop Wiki repository, licensed under GPLv2.
This is Open Source software, and the nv_zim plugin is licensed under GPLv3. See the GNU General Public License website for more details, or consult the LICENSE file.