Neverkin is an open-source non-commercial collaborative writing and worldbuilding app for storytellers, DMs, writers and novelists. It's great for planning your D&D sessions, writing fanfiction with your friends, keeping track of your thoughts or just when you need to quickly write something down.
Features:
- Interactive mindmap
- Rich text editing
- Wiki & character pages
- Relations through @mentions
- Real-time collaboration
- Multi-track timelines
- Custom calendars
For more information, please refer to the official documentation.
- Production: https://neverkin.com/
- Manually deployed stable release
- Staging: https://staging.neverkin.com/
- Hot updated directly from the
devbranch
- Hot updated directly from the
The application is built using the microservice architecture for Docker Swarm. The following diagram illustrates the main moving parts:
The development environment requires Node and Docker to run.
In most cases, the following commands are enough to have the entire environment up and running:
npm inpm run dev
The migrations are run automatically via a docker-compose task on environment start-up.
The default admin user is admin@localhost with password q.
You may download the built desktop application from the downloads page on the main website, or from the releases page here.
Please refer to the self-hosting documentation for detailed information on setting up your own cluster.
If you encounter trouble, reach out to the developer through the Discord link you can find on the Feedback page in the application. In case of catastrophic data loss, your work can be recovered. However, you are still encouraged to create your own backups.
A database backup is taken every 6 hours