My desktop text editor, KeenWrite[0], allows referencing variables within the main document text and figures. KeenWrite uses Kroki[1] to provide a wealth of diagram formats. In the screenshots[2], a Graphviz-based family tree is shown that uses character names sourced from an external YAML file. Those same variables can be used when writing prose. Change the variable in a single location and the family tree is updated and rendered immediately.
You can't do that with Google Docs, Lucid Chart, Word, OpenOffice, Scrivener, etc.
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My desktop text editor, KeenWrite[0], allows referencing variables within the main document text and figures. KeenWrite uses Kroki[1] to provide a wealth of diagram formats. In the screenshots[2], a Graphviz-based family tree is shown that uses character names sourced from an external YAML file. Those same variables can be used when writing prose. Change the variable in a single location and the family tree is updated and rendered immediately.
You can't do that with Google Docs, Lucid Chart, Word, OpenOffice, Scrivener, etc.
[0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
[1]: https://kroki.io/
[2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr...