I was raised during a generation where writing on a computer was virtually synonymous with using Microsoft Word (little has changed since). However, as I grew versed in the landscape of software development utilities, I knew there had to be a better way to write. For me, the perfect writing toolchain needed the following qualities:

• Content should be portable.
• Content should play nice with version control and diff tools.
• Content should be grep-able.
• Structure emphasized …

Style guides are an important part of the software development process. They keep code consistent across projects and help maintain a level of cleanliness and professionalism. A few years ago, I realized there were no (to my knowledge) guides for general file and directory naming so I started one. Over time, I gradually updated it and eventually named it the Unified Style Guide with the lofty goal of one day expanding it to programming languages …

This past weekend, I started a side project named Doctrine. It is a desktop application that simplifies viewing the rendered output of an AsciiDoc text file. A quick demo video is shown below:

The motivation behind Doctrine is to streamline the user experience when writing documents in plain text markup. Currently I am only focusing on AsciiDoc but compatibility with other formats (Markdown, ReStructuredText, etc) could be added in the future (integration with Pandoc is …