Getting started
Install Rhema, open your first book, write your first poem — ten minutes, start to finish.
Install
Grab the build for your OS from the download page and
launch it. On Linux that means chmod +x on the AppImage; on macOS,
right-click → Open the first time. Nothing to sign up for — Rhema opens
straight onto your bookshelf.
Your first collection
On the shelf, press + Poem (or right-click an empty spot and choose New Poem Collection). A poem collection sits beside novels and screenplays — Rhema’s third book format, made for verse.
Write
Type a title, press Enter, and the poem begins. In a poem collection the rules are the poem’s own:
- Enter once — a new line
- Enter twice — a new stanza
- Enter three times — a new poem
One blank line is always a stanza break. Every poem is one readable HTML
file on your disk, in ~/Documents/Rhema Library; lines are soft breaks
inside it, so the machinery that protects novels protects verses.
Where everything lives
- File → Library Folder… moves the library anywhere you like.
- On first run Rhema notices an existing
NEO Libraryand offers to open it — nothing from NEO is ever left behind or moved without asking. - View → Keyboard Shortcuts… (or Ctrl+/) opens the shortcut reference whenever you forget one.
Next: writing poems — the line surgery that makes Rhema a poet’s tool.