quickbook

quickbook copied to clipboard

The quickest way to write a book/PDF using Markdown.

Why ?

Have you found yourself having to create a PDF for school or for work ? I did, quite a lot and nowadays you can use Word, Google docs or even LaTeX if you ~~want~~ have to. I actually always found myself writing it in Markdown because it is so simple and easy to use but sadly I couldn't find an editor that gave enough control of the design and the output. It is also not suitable for anything more serious like a memoir, where LaTeX is a requirement but it shouldn't be one, with some tweaking Markdown is just as good, if not better because it lets you focus on the most important thing, your text.

How ?

The goal of this web application is to bring back the simplicity of writing a book back to its golden age, to the typewriter, while giving a realtime preview of the PDF, just like before. It fixes all the other issues, by giving you a total control of the design, everything about the output is fully customizable. Yet, this editor is still feature-complete, you can use anything that you're used: images, codeblocks, emojis, HTML, LaTeX.

What ?

So here's Quickbook. What I believe is the simplest but fully capable book maker.

Features

• Minimal and fast
• Instant and accurate preview right in the browser
• Fully customizable
  • Using Tailwind CSS (all of it !) and/or pure CSS you can change all the visual of the output
• Has a feature complete editor
  • With integrated search, just like the one that you use everyday
• Contains additional HTML elements to make your life easier
  • <pbr>: Page break
  • <page>...</page>: Full custom HTML page
• Shareable
  • You can quickly send a link containing the current mardown compressed right in it
• Exportable in various formats
  • Markdown
  • HTML
  • Quickbook (contains the markdown, the theme and all used images)
  • PDF
• Installable
  • It's a PWA so the application is instalable in Chrome and mobiles
  • By extension it's usable offline !
• With various other features
  • Images support (with auto compression !)
  • Highlighting support
  • Emoji support
  • LaTeX support
  • The text and images are saved automatically, there's no need to worry about them
• Privacy friendly
  • Everything is stored inside your browser, nothing is stored in our servers
  • The PDFs are generated and immediately sent back to you, I don't keep them

What's coming ?

• A zen mode, to improve even more your focus
• An improved mobile version
• Drag and drop
• Scroll sync
• Headers and footers for pages
• An automatic table of contents