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What tools do you use for writing? (self.writing)

submitted 1 year ago by elarem to c/writing

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Was curious to see what tools everyone uses for both writing and storage.

Personally I use Word for writing, Excel for planning and progress tracking, and a local MediaWiki server for note taking.

What about you?

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[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Similar: I use Codium with a vim input plugin and keep everything in plaintext as well. I write in markdown and use small scripts and tools like pandoc to produce epub versions that I can take with me on my phone. I use the notation features in my e-reader to do editing. All content except for a couple fonts and images are textual, making it ideal for tracking changes with git.

[–] jcastp 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, the git part is amazing, as well. Not only you can keep track of changes; you can also see your daily progress and word counting :) Totally recommended for any text based workflow.