[obeats]

For lyrics, I currently use Google Keep and hugely resent myself for it.

What I want is to be able to write lyrics as easily as plaintext, but with manually assignment of meter, rhythm etc, while also being able to "fork" lyrics at a point and be able to work on different threads, keep track of alternative lyrics on a phrase level too. Being able to sync that up with some basic music notation (e.g. keys and percussion) would get me 90% of the way to where I want to be when it comes to writing at the computer. I think I have a coherent design for such a software in my head but am unsure if it really is what I need or is just a whimsical distraction from not writing good enough lyrics yet. Would be interested to hear if anyone's seen anything like this (can't say I've exhaustively looked).

[setsewerd]

Late response here that might not be useful to you, but I mostly use Google docs for lyrics (on both my phone and laptop) and tend to rely on bullets for alternative lines.

This is fine for 1-2 alternate versions of a given line, but would get clunky beyond that. I imagine if I wanted to fork a song further than just a few alternate lines, I could insert a 2-column table and continue the song in each column.

It's rudimentary, but if you're worried that making your own software for it is just a form of advanced procrastination, something like Docs might be more manageable than Keep.

[jareklupinski]

> What I want is to be able to write lyrics as easily as plaintext, ... while also being able to "fork" lyrics at a point and be able to work on different threads, keep track of alternative lyrics on a phrase level too.

made me think of how sometimes i use ide "code folding" features to see just the first lines of a series of easily collapsable lists of text blocks