Anyone using bibisco?

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Hi,

I use Bibisco on Linux and windows, writing short stories. It fits my needs and I thought it could pair nicely with my reform classic and its great keyboard.
Alas, I wasn’t able to run the software on my reform. Probably a matter of architecture, so I gave a try to box64. Without any success. I’m probably doing wrong somewhere, but first thing first : has anyone tried to run Bibisco on their reform, successfully or not ?

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It looks like it’s an Electron app, i.e. written using HTML/JS/CSS, which are normally architecture independent. You could try unpacking it and running it manually, going into its directory and using npm install and npm start perhaps?

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Thank you for you answer and apologies for my late own answer. I’ll try this.

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I looked for bibisco source online to check it out found this repo:

Seems like it is not seeing active commits or the author is using another private repo for development now. I suspect it can be packaged for Linux ARM64 and I can try to do it once I get my Pocket Reform.

In the meanwhile, there are some FOSS software that fill a similar niche that you could check out:

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Thank you for your concern. I was planning a change in my workflow (a pretentious word, considering that I don’t work that much), so i’ll definitively look at those softwares…

[A few moments later…]
They all looks interesting and features-rich. Actually, i need a notes tree with style (at least an attractive yet unobstructive gui) and a basic organization I’ll comply to, while fighting against my tendency to spread in all directions.

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I’ve installed NovelWriter (without success, at first, but i’ve understood since that the .deb file i need was the old stable not the current one). Seems OK.

I’ve installed CheesePaper too via Flatpak but it crashes at launch (an error regarding wgpu, about an image resolution being too big if i remember correctly). That’s unfortunate because it was the most appealing to me at first (the files being markdown, and editable even out of the app which is not the way I’ll use it but is reassuring either). I’ll try to get in touch with the support.

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