steven-tey/novel

Novel is an open-source text editor that works and feels like Notion, a popular writing and note-taking app, but with the added ability to autocomplete your writing using AI. As you type, you can trigger AI suggestions that continue your sentences or paragraphs for you, making it useful for anyone who wants a smart writing assistant built directly into their editor. The editor is a WYSIWYG tool, which stands for "What You See Is What You Get", meaning the text looks as it will appear when published, with formatting like bold, headings, and bullet points visible as you write rather than shown as code. You can deploy your own private version of this editor to the web with a single click using Vercel, a hosting platform. To run it yourself, you'll need an OpenAI API key (which powers the AI autocomplete feature). The project is built using Next.js (a popular web app framework), Tiptap (a rich text editor library), OpenAI for AI completions, and Vercel for hosting. It is primarily written in TypeScript and also has community-maintained versions for non-React frameworks including Svelte and Vue, plus a VSCode extension for use inside a code editor. The project is open-source under the Apache-2.0 license, meaning anyone can use or modify it freely.