What do you use to write with?
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Worthy39
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But yours are so much better!
A-Random-Writer
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Google docs and my own hands.
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How vanillaAny 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
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Be carefull with Obsidian! I lost all my previous stuff! Back it up somewhere!
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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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NotaNuffian
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Gdocs for convenience.
But I use Obsidian to make a mindmap that I don't really follow and use.
But I use Obsidian to make a mindmap that I don't really follow and use.
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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.
It's held together by some straps of plastic and my hopes, and once it breaks apart, I'm gonna cry.
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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
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
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Atticus and Google docs.
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Ink and Quill.
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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.