Smultron
Sublime Text
Notepad++
CotEditor
Textmate
Bean
Visual Studio Code
Atom
Manuskript
Scrivener
StoryMill
yWriter
bibisco
Novelize
BlankPage
oStorybook
Smultron ManuskriptBased on our record, Manuskript seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. 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.
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
Sublime Text - Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Fully customizable with macros, and syntax highlighting for most major languages.
Scrivener - Scrivener is a content-generation tool for composing and structuring documents.
Notepad++ - A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
StoryMill - Developers and publishers of Mac, Win, and iOS productivity, home and office and writing software such as MacGourmet, Paperless and many more. Based in MN.
CotEditor - Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X
yWriter - Free writing software designed by the author of the Hal Spacejock and Hal Junior series. yWriter6 helps you write a book by organising chapters, scenes, characters and locations in an easy-to-use interface.