Based on our record, Gingko seems to be a lot more popular than Manuskript. While we know about 13 links to Gingko, we've tracked only 1 mention of Manuskript. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Here's the Gingko app I test sometimes. It lets you enter information horizontally and vertically into connected cards as if you were creating a horizontal outline that can have child cards. It's keyboard driven so that can speed up input. Source: 11 months ago
I find it useful for some things and awkward for others. I've been using Gingko [1] for a long while now. The ever-expanding-but-hierarchical structure it uses hits a sweet spot for me. 1: https://gingkoapp.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
- gingko for planning stores and Quoll writer to work them out in the final draft. Source: almost 2 years ago
I use Ginkgo App and it really changed my life writing. 🙄. Source: almost 2 years ago
It's not exactly the same, but a similar left-to-right tree outliner, specifically optimized for writing, is https://gingkoapp.com. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
Looks like you want something that integrates well with your workflow. The closest to your description seems to be Manuskript although I haven't used it. But your requirement of "keeping notes and frameworks and linking back and forth" should be possible by stitching together existing Linux tools using a syntax like markdown or asciidoc so that you can use any text editor to write your story and use external tools... Source: over 2 years ago
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