What do you use to write with?

[Corty]

A room full of cocaine-fueled monkeys.

 

[Lmae]

Google docs

Samsung notes and notepads for writing on the go.

 

[Worthy39]

Use your own thumbs!

But yours are so much better!

 

[A-Random-Writer]

Google docs and my own hands.

 

[DarkCrinkle]

How vanilla Any inconveniences with that?

Very inconvenient when it comes to checking spelling mistakes or grammar. But its convenient enough to be just there without a need to download a separate program, and simple.

I am just lazy to transfer my shz from a different program at this point.

 

[NapLovingImmortal]

Be carefull with Obsidian! I lost all my previous stuff! Back it up somewhere!

 

[OmegaC]

Be carefull with Obsidian! I lost all my previous stuff! Back it up somewhere!

Yeah, I've mentioned this earlier.

Edit: And I use FolderSync to back up everything to Google Drive, since my laptop is like 80 years old

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[SouthernMaiden]

 

[NotaNuffian]

Gdocs for convenience.

But I use Obsidian to make a mindmap that I don't really follow and use.

 

[expentio]

I use Wordpad on an almost breaking apart acer tablet that still has Windows 8, because they never again got a better display keyboard together.
It's held together by some straps of plastic and my hopes, and once it breaks apart, I'm gonna cry.

 

[DeOwl]

Scrivener because... I don't know why really.

But I refuse to use microslop, and having to manually manage files gets annoying, so no onlyOffice, etc.

I can't use markdown for my current strory because I have tables with merged columns, which markdown cannot do (as far as I know), so no markdown based apps.

I can not use online services because I am a paranoid Linux user with a homeserver, so that's out too.

And now, all that is left is... scrivener, and a few scrivener alternatives (like novelwriter if I remember correctly) that I cannot migrate to because scrivener export functions suck

And I don't hate myself enough to use latex

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Atticus and Google docs.

 

[Kurayami]

Libre Office

 

[Lysander_Works]

Ink and Quill.
Some messenger owls are used for editing suggestions.

 

[Bimbanana]

I use tab button to replace the broken "E" key

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Scrivener because... I don't know why really.

But I refuse to use microslop, and having to manually manage files gets annoying, so no onlyOffice, etc.

I can't use markdown for my current strory because I have tables with merged columns, which markdown cannot do (as far as I know), so no markdown based apps.

I can not use online services because I am a paranoid Linux user with a homeserver, so that's out too.

And now, all that is left is... scrivener, and a few scrivener alternatives (like novelwriter if I remember correctly) that I cannot migrate to because scrivener export functions suck

And I don't hate myself enough to use latex

Have you tried Manuskript? It's open source. For merged columns, unfortunately the only way is to write it in html.

I'm now using Jarte. The paid version went free years ago. It's Word without the bullshit.

 

[OmegaC]

Scrivener because... I don't know why really.

But I refuse to use microslop, and having to manually manage files gets annoying, so no onlyOffice, etc.

I can't use markdown for my current strory because I have tables with merged columns, which markdown cannot do (as far as I know), so no markdown based apps.

I can not use online services because I am a paranoid Linux user with a homeserver, so that's out too.

And now, all that is left is... scrivener, and a few scrivener alternatives (like novelwriter if I remember correctly) that I cannot migrate to because scrivener export functions suck

And I don't hate myself enough to use latex

You can embed HTML into markdown files, you know...

For example, in Obsidian:

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[DeOwl]

You can embed HTML into markdown files, you know...

For example, in Obsidian:
View attachment 48598

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Thanks, I do remember reading that it is possible to get merged tables, but that feels kinda janky...
Markdown is good, don't get me wrong, I use it all the time in university and for documentation, but I have tried markdown-based novel writing software (manuskript and obsidian and I think something else I don't remember the name of), but I don't enjoy using tags for writing because it makes it difficult for me to immediately understand what I have to do to change something and it is slightly more intrusive during reading than ms-word like editors. and I think html tables would make that even worse.

Plus there is the question of how well html tables paste into scribblehub, which I do not know (maybe they paste perfectly well)

 

[Kataelyna]

I used a few different options before settling on Scrivener. It's not perfect, but it annoys me the least out of everything I've tried.

 

[CountVanBadger]

I use google docs so I can access it no matter where I am. When I was younger, though, I used one of these:

It was really handy back when I didn't have 24/7 internet access. You can buy them for, like, $30 on ebay, and a few AA batteries will keep it running for 700 hours. It has a built in spell check and thesaurus. It lets you have eight files open simultaneously, but you can save others in the background, and it can hold roughly 200 pages of text. Then when you're ready, you just connect it to your computer and transfer it all over. The only reason I stopped using it was because formatting didn't carry over, so if I wanted to italicize any words (and I italicize a lot of words) I'd have to go back over the doc after transferring it to re-italicize everything. Also, like I said, now that I have internet access pretty much everywhere I go, it's easier to just use google docs and not have to transfer it onto my computer.