The Writer’s Repo

A collection of GitHub Issue Templates and Forms to capture and manage writing ideas

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Need a free, robust platform for collecting and collaborating on your writing ideas, for everything from tweets to blog posts? Check out GitHub Issues along with Issue Templates and Forms.

A screenshot of the blog issue form

Templates

Use the included templates to help structure your thoughts for specific writing needs:

• Tweet: includes a 280-character comment so you can visually see about how long it should be.
• Blog: set up as an input form with high-level prompts to structure your thoughts.
• Pitch: a form based on the Basecamp approach to articulating product ideas.

That’s just to get started! It’s easy to add new ones by creating templates based on those examples.

Features

Here’s what you get out of the box:

• Version history for tracking changes
• Commenting for feedback and collaboration
• Labeling for organizing themes and genres
• Project management for workflow tracking with Projects
• Mobile app for capturing formatted content, including images
• Mobile sharing for soliciting feedback

Getting started

Here’s all you need to do to start writing with GitHub Issues:

1. Copy this repository using the Use this template button.
2. Go to the Issues tab and press the New issue button.
3. Select one of the templates or start with a blank issue.

You should see this menu when creating a new issue. 👇

The New Issue menu showing available templates

Labels

To use the labels included in the issues templates and forms, you have to create those labels in your repo. They are not copied over when using this repo as a template.

Here are some examples, but you can use whatever you want in your repo:

• blog: Topic for a blog post
• pitch: Concept for a product, service, or feature
• tweet: Tweetable thought

Credits and License

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The project uses the MIT License, a short and simple permissive license with conditions only requiring preservation of copyright and license notices. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.