en

en is a tool to write non-linear, connected pieces of text and have their references mapped out as a graph of connected information.

It works by ingesting a TOML file containing your node specification and serving it as a website that allows nodes to be browsed, searched and listed in relation to each other or as a shallow tree of nodes.

Learn more

You can learn more and see what en looks like by visiting the homepage, which is rendered using en itself.

Roadmap

• Add tests
  • Improve content syntax parser coverage
• Redirects
• Strip/render some syntax in Tree text preview
• Drop-down navigation
• Meta-awareness
  • Detached edges
  • Most linked to nodes
  • Most linked from nodes
  • Most linked to nonexistent nodes
  • Most linked
• Special sections
  • Definition (implies metadata has_definition)
  • See also (implies a kind of connection, e.g. related)
  • Not to be confused with (implies a kind of connection)
  • Contrast with (implies a kind of connection)
  • Example (implies metadata has_example)
  • References/influences (implies metadata has_references)
• Sorting of tree, index list and drop-down navigation
  • Alphabetic
  • By most linked to
• Anchors and connections
  • Render detached anchors differently
  • Suffix-aware anchors
    • Plural anchors (|node|s -> node)
    • Ignore trailing punctuation
    • Conjugation anchors (|will|ed -> will)
    • Configurable suffixes
  • Spaced node anchor (|red fox| -> redfox -> RedFox)
  • Automatic connections from anchors
  • # syntax for header ID anchors
  • Connection kinds
    • Mutual
    • Category <-> Membership
    • Opposite <-> Equivalent
    • Contrast <-> Similar
    • Cognate <-> Unrelated
    • Specialization <-> Generalization
    • Custom connection kinds
  • External anchors
• Richer text formatting
  • Nested formatting
  • Headers
  • Preformatted blocks
  • Oblique,
  • Underline
  • Strikethrough
  • Bold
  • Inline code
  • Lists
  • Checkboxes
    • Move this roadmap to en
• Full-text search
• Begin centralizing state
• Reduce O(n) calls in the formats module
• Alternative rendering modes
  • Render to filesystem
  • Single-page rendering
• Input formats
  • Multi-file graphs
  • Multi-graph
• Themes
• Array syntax for lightweight connections
• Automatic IDs
• Automatic titles
• Mismatch between TOML ID and provided ID