Govel

Govel is a lightweight novel writing and organizing software designed with the intention to leave your hands where they belong: on the keyboard.

There are no fancy menus, submenus, dialogues, buttons, tabs, you name it. You don't even need to use the mouse, which makes your overall workflow faster than in any other program. You can still customize the visual appearance while beeing maximum productive. And the best of all: Govel is completly free.

Features

Write and organize your novel. Store as much or as few information as you like.
Lightning fast workflow.
Highlight direct speech and keywords in different colors.
Give tags to scenes to get their information over a quick panel.
Automatic backups.
Customize visual appearance.
Save your novel structure as a template to load it in any other project.
Export to simple text file, HTML, Word and LibreOffice.
Configure the export and get fully formatted HTML, Word and LibreOffice documents.

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License

MIT License

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Windows

Intended Audience

Other Audience

User Interface

Win32 (MS Windows)

Registered

2025-02-25

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