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?
Honestly? Google Docs. I just love the access I have to it no matter where I am.
Obsidian. Previously Visual Studio Code (well…), WriteMonkey, Notepad++, but in the end—VSCode has a great idea for the UI, and I already write in Markdown, so Obsidian was a natural choice the moment I learned it exists.
I mostly write notes and technical texts. Started off with Evernote, then tried a bunch of things: Obsidian, Notion, Joplin, ended up using Logseq. IMO Logseq is perfect for people who value their independence from the cloud: it is local-first, stores everything in text, works well with Git.
I would have really appreciated not being tied to it’s editor, but so far it’s the most convenient app I used for my purposes.
Emacs + orgmode. Quite technical, not for the faint of heart, but it is an amazing tool to keep everything in plain text. If you are not a technical person, probably this is not for you, as it requires quite the tinkering, but once configured to your workflow, it is very good.
Second place for Manuskript (source code), that is an open source scrivener-like application. I like it a lot, but I always go back to emacs, but probably someone here can appreciate it.
Although I like GNU Emacs a lot (it is my IDE, my scratchpad, my IRC client, my Matrix client, my Gopher browser and my part-time e-mail reader) and I use org-mode for my TODO lists and structuring for my more complex blog posts, I (personally) consider it inadequate for writing long-form prose. I always feel that it expects me to have a list wrapped around it. I know that org-novelist exists, but it tries to enforce a workflow that’s not mine.
I just had a brief look at Manuskript and it crashes immediately. I think I’ll wait for 1.0.0 before I try again.
