Mon 31 May 2021

Pepys

"It is rightly made for those who love to document their daily life events"
- FOSSBytes

Pepys is a journalling application that utilises markdown for writing and storing the journal entries

• Features
  • Markdown Highlighting
  • Inbuilt HTML Preview
  • Markdown Shortcuts
  • Date Oriented
  • Dark Theme
  • Future Proof
• Installation
  • Windows
    • Installer & Standalone
    • Winget
  • Mac
  • Linux
    • AUR
    • Debian/Fedora/Arch
• Featured in

Features

Markdown Highlighting

Pepys provides highlighting for key Markdown syntax in a clean and focus-driven design. Bold is bold, code is clear from text, and tags and urls don't clutter your view.

Inbuilt HTML Preview

With a click of a button your markdown is rendered with links all clickable, images viewable, and even iframes are interactable.

Markdown Shortcuts

Pepys features tools to add tables and images quickly and easily. No more fiddling with alignment or hassles with relative directories.

Date Oriented

Pepys is for making journal writing simple. Organising your entries into dates is automatic. There is no file selector, instead you pick a date and write the entry for that date. Clicking a date with an existing entry will show that entry.

You also have the ability to favourite specific dates and add tags.

Dark Theme

Whether you write in day or night, Pepys will make sure that it is as comfortable as possible

Future Proof

Pepys stores all your entries as plain text files in a YYYY/MM folder structure with a YYYY-MM-DD.md name format. This means that all your entries themselves will be viewable forever in any text editor that will come along.

Pepys also uses pandoc syntax, with support for pandoc conversions to other formats. This means that all your entries can be converted completely to HTML, PDF, LaTeX, Microsoft Word, EPUB, and more!

Installation

Windows

Installer & Standalone

The installer and standalone zip files are available on the releases page

Winget

Pepys is available through winget:

winget install pepys

Mac

Pepys on MacOS uses the homebrew package manager

• Download the ruby (.rb) file from the releases page
• navigate to the ruby file in Terminal
• brew install pepys.rb

Linux

AUR

Pepys is available on the Arch User Repository

yay -S pepys

Debian/Fedora/Arch

Distribution specific packages are available on the releases page

Featured in

FossBytes - https://fossbytes.com/document-activity-pepys-journal-app-linux/

ConnectWWW.com - https://connectwww.com/pepys-markdown-journal-application/62941/