 Hello and welcome to yet another episode of Nicolo Showcase's application. He discovered about like three weeks ago. In this case it is about Ghostwriter. So what is Ghostwriter? I actually didn't know up until three weeks ago because this application has joined KD just around the time of Academy, maybe a few days before that. So when it did I tried it out and I thought it was a pretty good application. Now before we get actually into Ghostwriter I want to show just how preter discover is getting. You do get the header with all the information of the application but you do also get the website card, a way to share the application, the reviews and then a way to donate and report about plus the permissions of this application. I think that this whole view is just so pretty. You can also donate to this application and likely this link is as you can see now not pointing directly to the donate page because that has changed when they moved to KD. However they do have a contribute page that tells you very precisely if you want to change the application, improve it, how to actually do that and going into grid details. So that's very nice. You can also contribute through testing, translation and such and then you have a way to donate directly to KDE as a whole. But enough said let's actually try out the application. So it is as you might have understood a Markdown editor which is something particularly useful to me especially because lately I have writing a lot of mathematical notes as .md files and the interface out of the box there are a couple of things I want to say firstly it doesn't quite feel currently like it is a KDE application. This is because it is a QML application so it uses QT the same toolkit of all other KDE apps. However it does not use Kuregami which is a toolkit to build apps done by KDE which builds on top of QML QT quick. So this is using QML but it's its own QML and it makes sense as it was not born as a KDE application but has recently joined KDE. So something that I would hope for the future is for this application to actually want to with time adopt the style and the visual guidelines of KDE that's something that I would hope to see. Of course it's not strictly necessary. Now with this application joining the KDE and remember if you do have an application and you want to join KDE you can. There's a process that that this app is going through which is the incubator which is making sure that this application has all the things it needs to be a KDE application. And being a KDE applications joining KDE actually gives you some nice benefits. As an example you do get a GitLab the KDE is GitLab instance. You get a lot of contributors interested in the project. You get a lot of advertisement from KDE promotional channels about your application. You also get you know all the infrastructure around our applications so the ability to have a website inside of KDE.org like they do these kind of things. These kind of things can actually help your application grow. So if you have an application and you want to join KDE do that why not. So I've talked about everything except how it actually works. So this is the live theme by default you'll get the dark one. However my notes are better better viewed live theme. My notes do have some HTML but this is actually displayed correctly. You can see these cards are actually defined in CSS and it works nicely. This is actually an HTML viewer so if you embed some HTML it will still be shown correctly which is super nice. You have a live view of what you're writing here which is also very nice and of course you get syntax highlighting. Finally you get here on the left the document structure and this is particularly important because although you can get syntax highlighting for markdown files in KDE as well and still in KDE you can also get a preview of the markdown file. This is what really distinguished this application plus another couple nice features. Firstly we have Hemingway mode which does not allow you to delete anything. You can see I'm trying to hit backspace I cannot delete. This is something that Hemingway things will help you write okay I guess and then you also get something that's very nice which is the focus mode that is it only highlights the sentence that you're currently selecting with your cursor. I actually find this pretty easier on your eyes when you're actually writing you do want to focus on what you're writing right now rather than having the whole document overwhelm you so I'm going to keep that enabled. What else you got a good variety of things about what you're writing as an example I have not written any word currently but if I go here and start writing see I've written seven words this is my average words per minute so it's a nice bunch of statistics about my writing speed which is particularly useful but I also get typical statistics about how many words I am writing and something also very useful is if I want to check whether I'm writing you know too much and going into too much depth about a topic and can just select some paragraphs like this and it will tell me that I'm I've used 400 words to explain this topic which is a fear amount so I don't have to worry about that. It also tells me but in this case I think that it only works in English but I'm not sure maybe it does work in Italian as well I have no idea the reading is and a great level of my document. Now 11th grade I actually had to google how old people are in 11th grade I had to check I actually wanted to keep this document rather simple so 11th grade apparently is like 16 years old that's fine that's what my document is meant for so fine and then reading is it can tell you whether it's easier or harder so apparently this particular part as an example it's rocket science again no idea of whether it actually supports Italian I hope not I hope this sentence is not actually rocket science I'm actually checking how it works okay so the algorithm that's called Koleman Liao is actually that is not based on the language but based on like number of words in a sentence number of letters in a word okay okay fine fine fine I guess this is rocket science then what else well you might notice that everything here is using comic sense yes this font is comic sense that's not what you get out of the box however you're able to customize that with the font part and of course I put comic sense for me because you know that's the only font that you're actually able to write mathematics book in you might not know about that but now you know you can only write books about mathematics in comic sense you also get the ability to switch between themes and to create new themes just like that just by selecting what colors everything should be just like that boom done all themes will work both in light and dark mode which is pretty nice and of course you can get rid of them as well boom gone what else you know the type of those things like as an example you can change the font of the preview as well it's not working for me but that's because I have a CSS style that tells that overwrites the text font it will work for you and you know the syntax highlighting is correct the application is rather simple there's not much high heaven showed there's also here cheat sheet if you don't know mark down that that well so you can just look here and that's it really it's a nice application that has just joined caddy and I hope they will be able to grow underneath the umbrella of caddy applications and thanks to them so for actually joining in if you like this application remember that you can contribute to it and also donate to caddy as a whole so thanks everybody for tuning in and see you tomorrow with another video