NEO is an open source novel-writing program. Originally conceived by bestselling author Hugh Howey, the goal is to create a clean interface for expressing creativity, with perfect ebook output and organization features. Hugh is providing guidance and feedback, but his participation is limited at the moment due to Internet access issues in the middle of the Pacific.
The editor is being developed using Electron to deliver a full-featured cross-platform desktop application. Right now the core application framework is being developed by Scott Means with the intent to recruit more developers around October 2017. If you're a skilled designer with CSS and print/ebook design skills we could use your help now to start polishing NEO's UI and ebook themes. Feel free to contact Scott directly if you're interested.
To get the very latest features (and unfixed bugs) you'll need to run NEO from its source code. To run from source, you'll need to install git and clone the NEO repository to your local system:
$ git clone https://github.com/smeans/neo
This should create a folder called neo on your
machine. To run neo, you will also need to install Node.js. This will give you access to the Node runtime and the Node Package Manager (npm) utility. Once Node is installed, you can run NEO from the command line using npm:
$ cd neo/app
$ npm install
...
$ npm start
If all went well, NEO will fire up as a full-screen app and you're in business. Whenever you want to refresh your local copy of the source, just do a git pull:
$ cd neo
$ git pull origin master